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 xxx
... never ceases to wear a dignified and interesting aspect . Comedy , in the na- tural and easy dress , in which , after the best Greek models , she is clothed by Terence , can never fail to please . Lyric poetry , while it rolls on , like ...
... never ceases to wear a dignified and interesting aspect . Comedy , in the na- tural and easy dress , in which , after the best Greek models , she is clothed by Terence , can never fail to please . Lyric poetry , while it rolls on , like ...
Strana xxxvii
... never be forgotten . Whatever tends to enlighten the understanding , to enlarge the conceptions , to impress the heart with right feelings , or to afford innocent and rational amusement , may be pronounced useful . beyond this is either ...
... never be forgotten . Whatever tends to enlighten the understanding , to enlarge the conceptions , to impress the heart with right feelings , or to afford innocent and rational amusement , may be pronounced useful . beyond this is either ...
Strana 2
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a hand- some address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance ...
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a hand- some address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance ...
Strana 3
... never can be wise but by his own wisdom . He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning . for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
... never can be wise but by his own wisdom . He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning . for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
Strana 4
... never drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds , to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles : great minds have ...
... never drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds , to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles : great minds have ...
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