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, 1805 - 396 страници |
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... less to -remove . HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean but a neceffary fubftitute for it , in societies who have none ; it is a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the ...
... less to -remove . HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean but a neceffary fubftitute for it , in societies who have none ; it is a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the ...
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... less than univerfal monarchy over the hearts . of mankind . Luxury had many generals under him , who did him great fervice , as Pleasure , Mirth , Pomp , and Fa- fhion . Avarice was likewife very strong in his officers , being ...
... less than univerfal monarchy over the hearts . of mankind . Luxury had many generals under him , who did him great fervice , as Pleasure , Mirth , Pomp , and Fa- fhion . Avarice was likewife very strong in his officers , being ...
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... less expenfe , Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe , And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men , and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . CHAP . XIV . SIR BALAAM . WHERE London's column CHAP . XIII . 41 . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... less expenfe , Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe , And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men , and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . CHAP . XIV . SIR BALAAM . WHERE London's column CHAP . XIII . 41 . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... less anxious , every evening walk'd On the cool margin of the purple main , Intent her Junio's veffel to defcry . One eve ( faint calms for many a day had rag'd ) The winged Dæmons of the tempeft rofe ! Thunder , and rain , and ...
... less anxious , every evening walk'd On the cool margin of the purple main , Intent her Junio's veffel to defcry . One eve ( faint calms for many a day had rag'd ) The winged Dæmons of the tempeft rofe ! Thunder , and rain , and ...
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... less than ourselves . It has the fame authority in all worlds that it has in this . The further any being is advanced in excellence and perfection , the greater is his attacher ent to it , and the more he is under its influence . To fay ...
... less than ourselves . It has the fame authority in all worlds that it has in this . The further any being is advanced in excellence and perfection , the greater is his attacher ent to it , and the more he is under its influence . To fay ...
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Страница 219 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he : For once, upon a raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Caesar said to me ' Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did.
Страница 263 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Страница 279 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Страница 248 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Страница 205 - The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Страница 331 - ... all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? — This world was made for Caesar.
Страница 323 - Join voices all ye living souls: Ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.