The English Reader Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best WritersLongmann and Rees, 1799 - 356 páginas |
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... see a minute and ingenious investigation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may confult the first volume of Walker's Elements of Elocution . 1 SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verfe . WHEN we ...
... see a minute and ingenious investigation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may confult the first volume of Walker's Elements of Elocution . 1 SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verfe . WHEN we ...
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... see ? I have been young , and now I am old ; yet have I ne- ver feen the righteous forfaken , nor his feed begging bread . I have feen the wicked in great power ; and fpread- ing himself like a green bay - tree . Yet he paffed away : I ...
... see ? I have been young , and now I am old ; yet have I ne- ver feen the righteous forfaken , nor his feed begging bread . I have feen the wicked in great power ; and fpread- ing himself like a green bay - tree . Yet he paffed away : I ...
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... see the man appearing diftinctly in all his limbs and features ; fometimes , we find the figure wrought up to great elegancy ; but feldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or a Praxiteles could not give several nice touches ...
... see the man appearing diftinctly in all his limbs and features ; fometimes , we find the figure wrought up to great elegancy ; but feldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or a Praxiteles could not give several nice touches ...
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... See a kindred grief pursue ; Behind the fteps that Mis'ry treads , Approaching comforts view . The hues of blifs more brightly glow , Chaftis'd by fable tints of woe ; And blended form , with artful ftrife , The ftrength CHAP . I. 257 ...
... See a kindred grief pursue ; Behind the fteps that Mis'ry treads , Approaching comforts view . The hues of blifs more brightly glow , Chaftis'd by fable tints of woe ; And blended form , with artful ftrife , The ftrength CHAP . I. 257 ...
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... See ! from the brake the whirring pheafant fprings , And mounts . exulting on triumphant wings . Scylla and Charybdis . Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms , And here Charybdis fills the dee with ftorms . When the tide rufhes from ...
... See ! from the brake the whirring pheafant fprings , And mounts . exulting on triumphant wings . Scylla and Charybdis . Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms , And here Charybdis fills the dee with ftorms . When the tide rufhes from ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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