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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... soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order , to exert Within herself this elegance of love , This fair inspir'd delight : but temper'd pow'rs Refine at length , and ev'ry passion wears A chaster , milder , more attractive mien ...
... soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order , to exert Within herself this elegance of love , This fair inspir'd delight : but temper'd pow'rs Refine at length , and ev'ry passion wears A chaster , milder , more attractive mien ...
Strana 7
... twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every thing too soon . There is nothing wanting to make all rational and dis- CHAP . VI . 7 SELECT SENTENCES .
... twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every thing too soon . There is nothing wanting to make all rational and dis- CHAP . VI . 7 SELECT SENTENCES .
Strana 18
... soon accommodat- ed , insomuch that for the future they resolved to live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquests were made on either side . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking ...
... soon accommodat- ed , insomuch that for the future they resolved to live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquests were made on either side . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking ...
Strana 21
... soon- er heard this , than he took up his son behind him . Pray , honest friend , says a fourth , is that ass your own ? Yes , says the man . One would not have thought so , replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You ...
... soon- er heard this , than he took up his son behind him . Pray , honest friend , says a fourth , is that ass your own ? Yes , says the man . One would not have thought so , replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You ...
Strana 24
... soon as they were arrived at maturer years . But in the mean time the sons of men deviated from their native innocence ; Vice and Ruin overran the earth with giant strides ; and Astrea , with her train of celestial visitants , forsook ...
... soon as they were arrived at maturer years . But in the mean time the sons of men deviated from their native innocence ; Vice and Ruin overran the earth with giant strides ; and Astrea , with her train of celestial visitants , forsook ...
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