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 Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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Page 55
... Mufe ; Of freedom , courage ; yet Aufonia's clime , His fteps explor'd ; where painting , mufic's strains , Where arts , where laws , Philofophy's beft child , With rival beauties his attention claim'd . To his juft - judging , his ...
... Mufe ; Of freedom , courage ; yet Aufonia's clime , His fteps explor'd ; where painting , mufic's strains , Where arts , where laws , Philofophy's beft child , With rival beauties his attention claim'd . To his juft - judging , his ...
Page 100
... Mufe tho ' thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnaffus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to Church repair Not for the doctrine , but the music there . Thefe equal ...
... Mufe tho ' thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnaffus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to Church repair Not for the doctrine , but the music there . Thefe equal ...
Page 104
... Mufe would take me on her airy wing , And waft to views romantic ; there prefent . Some motley vifion , fhade and fun : the cliff O'er hanging , sparkling brooks , and ruins grey : Bade me meanders trace , and catch the form Of varying ...
... Mufe would take me on her airy wing , And waft to views romantic ; there prefent . Some motley vifion , fhade and fun : the cliff O'er hanging , sparkling brooks , and ruins grey : Bade me meanders trace , and catch the form Of varying ...
Page 106
... Mufe In praife of hawthorns - Life's whole bufinefs this ! Is it to bafk i ' th ' fun ? if fo , a fnail Were happy crawling on a fouthern wall . Why fits Content upon a cottage - fill At eventide , and bleffeth the coarfe meal In footy ...
... Mufe In praife of hawthorns - Life's whole bufinefs this ! Is it to bafk i ' th ' fun ? if fo , a fnail Were happy crawling on a fouthern wall . Why fits Content upon a cottage - fill At eventide , and bleffeth the coarfe meal In footy ...
Page 108
... Mufe full oft purfues a meteor fire , And vainly vent'rous , foars on waxen wing . Too actively awake at Friendship's voice . The poet's bofom pours the fervent strain , Till fad Reflection blames the hafty choice , And oft invokes ...
... Mufe full oft purfues a meteor fire , And vainly vent'rous , foars on waxen wing . Too actively awake at Friendship's voice . The poet's bofom pours the fervent strain , Till fad Reflection blames the hafty choice , And oft invokes ...
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