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 pàgines |
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Pàgina xl
... please . Lyric poetry , whilft it rolls on , like an impetuous torrent , in the lofty ftrains , and the wild and varied numbers of Pindar , or flows in a placid and tranfparent ftream along the channel of Horatian verfe , or glides ...
... please . Lyric poetry , whilft it rolls on , like an impetuous torrent , in the lofty ftrains , and the wild and varied numbers of Pindar , or flows in a placid and tranfparent ftream along the channel of Horatian verfe , or glides ...
Pàgina 5
... please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . THE failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- ferving man , fhall ...
... please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . THE failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- ferving man , fhall ...
Pàgina 21
... please . God grant a long life to fultan Mahmoud ; whilst he reigns over us , we shall never want ruined villages . THE ftory fays , the fultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been de ...
... please . God grant a long life to fultan Mahmoud ; whilst he reigns over us , we shall never want ruined villages . THE ftory fays , the fultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been de ...
Pàgina 26
... thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and fon are better able to carry the poor beast than your he he you . Any thing to please , fays the 2-6 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . The Old Man and his Ibid.
... thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and fon are better able to carry the poor beast than your he he you . Any thing to please , fays the 2-6 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . The Old Man and his Ibid.
Pàgina 27
... please , fays the owner ; and alight- ing with his fon , they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon their shoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was fo entertaining a ...
... please , fays the owner ; and alight- ing with his fon , they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon their shoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was fo entertaining a ...
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