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 William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ... |
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... happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecu- ring to ourselves the friendship and protection ...
... happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecu- ring to ourselves the friendship and protection ...
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... this fpecies commonly called man , was too virtuous to be mifera- ble , and too vicious to be happy ; that he might make a dif tinction C 5 tinction between the good and the bad , ordered the CHAP . IV . 23 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... this fpecies commonly called man , was too virtuous to be mifera- ble , and too vicious to be happy ; that he might make a dif tinction C 5 tinction between the good and the bad , ordered the CHAP . IV . 23 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... happy period of the golden age , when all the ce- In the happy of the duodenecarthy and converfed familiarly with mortals , amongst the moft cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , LOVE . and joy ...
... happy period of the golden age , when all the ce- In the happy of the duodenecarthy and converfed familiarly with mortals , amongst the moft cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , LOVE . and joy ...
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... happy hours of heart - felt blifs Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to laft , Where fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each ...
... happy hours of heart - felt blifs Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to laft , Where fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each ...
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... happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv'd The The rural day , and talk'd the flowing hour , in 52 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . And following flower, in explosion ...
... happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv'd The The rural day , and talk'd the flowing hour , in 52 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . And following flower, in explosion ...
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