The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 |
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Page 25
... spread . There is no real use of riches , except in the distribution : the reft is all conceit . A wife man will defire no more than what he may get justly , use foberly , diftribute cheerfully , and live upon contentedly . A contented ...
... spread . There is no real use of riches , except in the distribution : the reft is all conceit . A wife man will defire no more than what he may get justly , use foberly , diftribute cheerfully , and live upon contentedly . A contented ...
Page 68
... spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' Heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn This charmer of the plains ; POPE . That fun which bids their di'mond blaze To deck our ...
... spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' Heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn This charmer of the plains ; POPE . That fun which bids their di'mond blaze To deck our ...
Page 91
... spreads a perpetual diffufion of joy through the foul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himfelf every moment as more happy than he knows how to conceive . The fecond fource of cheerfulnefs to a good mind , is its confideration ...
... spreads a perpetual diffufion of joy through the foul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himfelf every moment as more happy than he knows how to conceive . The fecond fource of cheerfulnefs to a good mind , is its confideration ...
Page 114
... Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes in our foul , informs our mortal part , As full , as perfect , in a hair as heart ; As full , as perfect , in vile Man that mourns , As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns : To him no ...
... Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes in our foul , informs our mortal part , As full , as perfect , in a hair as heart ; As full , as perfect , in vile Man that mourns , As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns : To him no ...
Page 121
... spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbour , firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide , th ' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in of ev'ry kind ; Earth smiles around , with boundless ...
... spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbour , firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide , th ' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in of ev'ry kind ; Earth smiles around , with boundless ...
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