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 Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 pages |
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... PRAISE OF VIRTUE ........ Price , 153 13. THE SPEECH OF BRUTUS ON THE DEATH OF CESAR ...... Shakspeare , 155 14. GLOUCESTER'S SPEECH TO THE NOBLES .......... ......... Ib . 156 ... Tacitus , 13115. HENRY V TO HIS SOLDIERS .... Ib . 157 ...
... PRAISE OF VIRTUE ........ Price , 153 13. THE SPEECH OF BRUTUS ON THE DEATH OF CESAR ...... Shakspeare , 155 14. GLOUCESTER'S SPEECH TO THE NOBLES .......... ......... Ib . 156 ... Tacitus , 13115. HENRY V TO HIS SOLDIERS .... Ib . 157 ...
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... praise , think on these things * . On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ? -- We do , my lord . - Arm'd , say you ? --- Arm'd , my ...
... praise , think on these things * . On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ? -- We do , my lord . - Arm'd , say you ? --- Arm'd , my ...
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... praise : such is the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for may be done by one great or wise action in an age : but this to escape censure , a man must pass his whole SELECT ...
... praise : such is the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for may be done by one great or wise action in an age : but this to escape censure , a man must pass his whole SELECT ...
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... praise of one's self ; or saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse for old ...
... praise of one's self ; or saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse for old ...
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... praise and transport to his breast . At length quite vain , he needs would shew His master what his art could do ; And bade his slaves the chariot lead To Academus ' sacred shade . The trembling grove confess'd it's fright ; The wood ...
... praise and transport to his breast . At length quite vain , he needs would shew His master what his art could do ; And bade his slaves the chariot lead To Academus ' sacred shade . The trembling grove confess'd it's fright ; The wood ...
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