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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... One eve ( faint calms for many a day had reign'd ) The winged demons of the tempest rose ! Thunder , and rain , aud lightnings awful pow'r She fled : could innocence , could beauty claim Exemption NARRATIVE PIECES . BOOK 11 .
... One eve ( faint calms for many a day had reign'd ) The winged demons of the tempest rose ! Thunder , and rain , aud lightnings awful pow'r She fled : could innocence , could beauty claim Exemption NARRATIVE PIECES . BOOK 11 .
Strana 84
... Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction which thou canst not see ; All Discord , Harmony not understood ; All partial Evil , universal Good : And , spite of Pride ...
... Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction which thou canst not see ; All Discord , Harmony not understood ; All partial Evil , universal Good : And , spite of Pride ...
Strana 85
... pow'r , ambition , lucre , lust : The same Self - love , in all , becomes the cause Of what restrains him , Government and Laws ; For , what one likes , if others like as well , What serves one will , when many wills rebel ? How shall ...
... pow'r , ambition , lucre , lust : The same Self - love , in all , becomes the cause Of what restrains him , Government and Laws ; For , what one likes , if others like as well , What serves one will , when many wills rebel ? How shall ...
Strana 86
... pow'r's due use to people and to kings , Taught nor to slack , nor strain it's tender strings , The less or greater set so justly true , That touching one must strike the other too ; Till jarring int'rests of themselves create Th ...
... pow'r's due use to people and to kings , Taught nor to slack , nor strain it's tender strings , The less or greater set so justly true , That touching one must strike the other too ; Till jarring int'rests of themselves create Th ...
Strana 96
... pow'r endow'd And room to stretch , was destin'd to sit still ? Sluggards are Nature's rebels , slight her laws , Nor live up to the terms on which they hold Their vital lease . Laborious terms and hard ; But such the tenure of our ...
... pow'r endow'd And room to stretch , was destin'd to sit still ? Sluggards are Nature's rebels , slight her laws , Nor live up to the terms on which they hold Their vital lease . Laborious terms and hard ; But such the tenure of our ...
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