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 EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pagini |
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Pagina xxxi
... sure is hereby laid open before the reader who is possessed of a true taste for polite literature , which distinguishes him from the vulgar , at least as much as the man who enjoys an affluent fortune is distinguished by the luxuries of ...
... sure is hereby laid open before the reader who is possessed of a true taste for polite literature , which distinguishes him from the vulgar , at least as much as the man who enjoys an affluent fortune is distinguished by the luxuries of ...
Pagina xxxii
... sure of the emotion excited by the representation , and then the secondary gratification of exercising his judgment upon the merit of the painter ; so in poetry , and other literary works of taste , the reader first indulges his ...
... sure of the emotion excited by the representation , and then the secondary gratification of exercising his judgment upon the merit of the painter ; so in poetry , and other literary works of taste , the reader first indulges his ...
Pagina 18
... sure , who was the daughter of Happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the Gods . These , as I said before , had their habitation in Heaven . The youngest of the opposite family was Pain , who was the son of ...
... sure , who was the daughter of Happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the Gods . These , as I said before , had their habitation in Heaven . The youngest of the opposite family was Pain , who was the son of ...
Pagina 19
... sure might lay claim to a hundredth part ; and that in the most virtuous man , Pain might come in for at least two thirds . This they saw would occasion endless disputes between them , unless they could come to some accommodation . To ...
... sure might lay claim to a hundredth part ; and that in the most virtuous man , Pain might come in for at least two thirds . This they saw would occasion endless disputes between them , unless they could come to some accommodation . To ...
Pagina 27
... sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so , when .. he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise - I fear the weight of myself , and my afflictions together , have been too much for ...
... sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so , when .. he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise - I fear the weight of myself , and my afflictions together , have been too much for ...
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anger army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar cæsura CHAP chill band country gentlemen cried daughter death divine earth elocution endeavour eternal ev'n ev'ry father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls genius give glory Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago imagination kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind manner Maria means mind motley fool Muse nature never noble o'er pain Parliament passion patricians pause peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise present privy counsellor proper racter replied Roman Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought truth uncle Toby virtue voice whole wisdom wise words writing youth