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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1797 - 436 Seiten |
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... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feaft ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feaft ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
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... Hold there , " the other quick replies , " ' Tis green - I faw it with these eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Streach'd at its ease the beast I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food ...
... Hold there , " the other quick replies , " ' Tis green - I faw it with these eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Streach'd at its ease the beast I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food ...
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... hold That title now too trite and old ) A man , once young , who lived retired As Hermit could have well defired , His hours of study clofed at laft , And finish'd his concise repast , Stoppled his crufe , replaced his book Within its ...
... hold That title now too trite and old ) A man , once young , who lived retired As Hermit could have well defired , His hours of study clofed at laft , And finish'd his concise repast , Stoppled his crufe , replaced his book Within its ...
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... hold discourse , at least , in fable ; And ev❜n the child , who knows no better , Than to interpret by the letter , A ftory of a cock and bull , Must have a most uncommon skull , It chanc'd then , ona winter's day , But warm and bright ...
... hold discourse , at least , in fable ; And ev❜n the child , who knows no better , Than to interpret by the letter , A ftory of a cock and bull , Must have a most uncommon skull , It chanc'd then , ona winter's day , But warm and bright ...
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... hold it , therefore , wileft and most fit , That , life to save , we leap into the pit . Him anfwer'd then his loving mate and true , But more difcreet than he , a Cambrian ewe . How How ? leap into the pit our life to fave 72 NARRATIVE ...
... hold it , therefore , wileft and most fit , That , life to save , we leap into the pit . Him anfwer'd then his loving mate and true , But more difcreet than he , a Cambrian ewe . How How ? leap into the pit our life to fave 72 NARRATIVE ...
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