The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pages |
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Page xviii
... stands alone in indeclinables . Conjunction , preposition , adverb join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monosyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the soul . Emphasis is often destroyed ...
... stands alone in indeclinables . Conjunction , preposition , adverb join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monosyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the soul . Emphasis is often destroyed ...
Page xxvii
... standing , and the exercise of imagination : whence books may he distinguished by two leading characters , Instructive and Interesting ; and will be divided into two classes , Works of Knowledge , and Works of Taste . Between the two ...
... standing , and the exercise of imagination : whence books may he distinguished by two leading characters , Instructive and Interesting ; and will be divided into two classes , Works of Knowledge , and Works of Taste . Between the two ...
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... stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not 37 hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not an old ...
... stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not 37 hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not an old ...
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... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By ...
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... stands , For ever silent , and for ever sad . THOMSON . CHAP . XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . Soon as young reason dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father sent him from these genial isles , To where old Thames with conscious pride surveys ...
... stands , For ever silent , and for ever sad . THOMSON . CHAP . XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . Soon as young reason dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father sent him from these genial isles , To where old Thames with conscious pride surveys ...
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anger army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar cæsura CHAP chill band country gentlemen cried daughter death divine earth elocution endeavour eternal ev'n ev'ry father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls genius give glory Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago imagination kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind manner Maria means mind motley fool Muse nature never noble o'er pain Parliament passion patricians pause peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise present privy counsellor proper racter replied Roman Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought truth uncle Toby virtue voice whole wisdom wise words writing youth