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 - Počet stran: 346 |
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Strana xxxviii
... bear to several other feelings excited by different causes ; the term Sublimity is applied to various other sub- jects , as dignity of rank , extent of power , and eminence of merit . Hence those writers , who most successfully exhibit ...
... bear to several other feelings excited by different causes ; the term Sublimity is applied to various other sub- jects , as dignity of rank , extent of power , and eminence of merit . Hence those writers , who most successfully exhibit ...
Strana 5
... bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , " Were I Alexander ; I would accept them . " " So would I , " replied Alexander , " were I Parmenio ...
... bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , " Were I Alexander ; I would accept them . " " So would I , " replied Alexander , " were I Parmenio ...
Strana 45
... bear , Are ready to burst on thee ? Urge not so Thy flying courser . Soon Theana's porch Receiv'd him ; at his sight the ancient slaves Affrighted shriek , and to the chamber point : - Confounded , yet unknowing what they meant , He ...
... bear , Are ready to burst on thee ? Urge not so Thy flying courser . Soon Theana's porch Receiv'd him ; at his sight the ancient slaves Affrighted shriek , and to the chamber point : - Confounded , yet unknowing what they meant , He ...
Strana 51
... prize than that he meant Shall recoinpense his mere intent . No virtuous wish can bear a date Either too early , or too late . COWPER . CHAP . XXII . THE FAITHFUL FRIEND . THE greenhouse D 2 CHAP . XXI . 51 NARRATIVE PIECES . Cowper,
... prize than that he meant Shall recoinpense his mere intent . No virtuous wish can bear a date Either too early , or too late . COWPER . CHAP . XXII . THE FAITHFUL FRIEND . THE greenhouse D 2 CHAP . XXI . 51 NARRATIVE PIECES . Cowper,
Strana 54
... bears An aspect stern on man's attairs , Not altogether smil'd on theirs . The wind , of late breath'd gently forth , Now shifted east and east by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could shelter them from rain or snow ...
... bears An aspect stern on man's attairs , Not altogether smil'd on theirs . The wind , of late breath'd gently forth , Now shifted east and east by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could shelter them from rain or snow ...
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