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 is Prefixed An Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 páginas |
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... live as good friends and con- federates , and to fhare between them whatever conquefts were made on either fide . For this reason we now find Lux- ury and Avarice taking poffeffion of the fame heart , and di- viding the fame perfon ...
... live as good friends and con- federates , and to fhare between them whatever conquefts were made on either fide . For this reason we now find Lux- ury and Avarice taking poffeffion of the fame heart , and di- viding the fame perfon ...
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... lives like other folks , He takes his chirping pint , and cracks his jokes : " Live like yourself , " was foon my Lady's word ; And lo ! two puddings fmoak'd upon the board . Afleep and naked as an Indian lay , An honeft factor ftole a ...
... lives like other folks , He takes his chirping pint , and cracks his jokes : " Live like yourself , " was foon my Lady's word ; And lo ! two puddings fmoak'd upon the board . Afleep and naked as an Indian lay , An honeft factor ftole a ...
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... pale So morning dews appear . But oh his fifter's jealous care , ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to fay , My EDWIN , live for me . Now Now homeward as the hopeless went , The church - 50 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... pale So morning dews appear . But oh his fifter's jealous care , ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to fay , My EDWIN , live for me . Now Now homeward as the hopeless went , The church - 50 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... Live , and live happy ; fometimes think of me : " By night , by day , you ftill engag'd my care ; " And next to God , you now my thoughts employ : 66 Accept of this - My little all I give ; " Would it were larger " - -Nature could no ...
... Live , and live happy ; fometimes think of me : " By night , by day , you ftill engag'd my care ; " And next to God , you now my thoughts employ : 66 Accept of this - My little all I give ; " Would it were larger " - -Nature could no ...
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... live according to the dictates of virtue and right reafon , has two perpetual fources of cheerfulness , in the confideration of his own na- ture , and of that Being on whom he has a dependence . If he looks into himself , he cannot but ...
... live according to the dictates of virtue and right reafon , has two perpetual fources of cheerfulness , in the confideration of his own na- ture , and of that Being on whom he has a dependence . If he looks into himself , he cannot but ...
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Página 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Página 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 402 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Página 376 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Página 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Página 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.