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, 1792 - 436 Seiten |
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... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which affects ...
... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which affects ...
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... hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good ...
... hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good ...
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... hand , who by the sprightliness of her conver- fation , and fongs of cheerfulness and joy , softened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went fmiling on the left , fupporting the fteps of her mother , and by her perpetual good ...
... hand , who by the sprightliness of her conver- fation , and fongs of cheerfulness and joy , softened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went fmiling on the left , fupporting the fteps of her mother , and by her perpetual good ...
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... wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it fome ime in his hand - then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle --looked -looked wistfully at the little arrangement he had made- and 32 Book II .. NARRATIVE PIECES . Mrs Barbauld The Dead.
... wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it fome ime in his hand - then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle --looked -looked wistfully at the little arrangement he had made- and 32 Book II .. NARRATIVE PIECES . Mrs Barbauld The Dead.
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... hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his condition , and should have ...
... hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his condition , and should have ...
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