The Port Folio, Volume 1Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
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... wish to pass the rest of their days in tranquil obscurity . There are few or no equipages in the streets , and not many people ; and they , as well as the shops , have an air of belonging to a different age , or a different nation ...
... wish to pass the rest of their days in tranquil obscurity . There are few or no equipages in the streets , and not many people ; and they , as well as the shops , have an air of belonging to a different age , or a different nation ...
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... wishes to study an air , or any one of them who is desirous of consoling himself with some treatise of devotion , or has perhaps received a letter from a friend , for the same mode is applied to writing , turns over the paper , and ...
... wishes to study an air , or any one of them who is desirous of consoling himself with some treatise of devotion , or has perhaps received a letter from a friend , for the same mode is applied to writing , turns over the paper , and ...
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... wishes , he left the Prudent , and returned to his old ship . In the early part of 1775 , he commanded a vessel , and was very successful in bringing considerable quantities of powder into the United Colonies : but about the close of ...
... wishes , he left the Prudent , and returned to his old ship . In the early part of 1775 , he commanded a vessel , and was very successful in bringing considerable quantities of powder into the United Colonies : but about the close of ...
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... wish it to be read , studied and admired for the sake of being extolled or revered by others , as the authors of so much eloquence or wisdom . We feel unspeakable complacen- cy and satisfaction in the survey of the work . Review it ...
... wish it to be read , studied and admired for the sake of being extolled or revered by others , as the authors of so much eloquence or wisdom . We feel unspeakable complacen- cy and satisfaction in the survey of the work . Review it ...
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... wish for repose . But alas ! it is in vain . Our indefatigable bard continues to whirl us backward and forward , with the rapidity of a postboy , from " Penn's beauteous town , " to " imperial Mexic " and " Cusco's shining roofs . " At ...
... wish for repose . But alas ! it is in vain . Our indefatigable bard continues to whirl us backward and forward , with the rapidity of a postboy , from " Penn's beauteous town , " to " imperial Mexic " and " Cusco's shining roofs . " At ...
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accent admiration afford American Anacreon ANTHONY WAYNE appears attention beauty Benjamin Stoddert called character charms Columbiad command Constellation criticism death delight distinguished Duke of Choiseul effect elegant English excited expression fame fancy favour feelings France French friends genius gentleman give glottis grace happy heart heaven honour hope human human voice Iago interesting King lady language letters literary lives Louis XIV M'Intosh Macbeth Macchiavelli manner ment merit Michael Cassio mind moral Muse nation nature never New-York o'er object observed occasion OLDSCHOOL opinion Paris passion perhaps person Philadelphia pleasure poem poet political PORT FOLIO possession present Prince produced reader received respect scene sentiment sometimes soul sound spirit style sweet syllable talents taste thee THOMAS TRUXTUN thou tion truth Truxtun virtue voice Voltaire words writer young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 260 - Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?
Página 509 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 136 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Página 236 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Página 379 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 304 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Página 110 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Página 262 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Página 109 - Behold me then, me for him, life for life, I offer: on me let thine anger fall; Account me man ; I for his sake will leave Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee Freely put off, and for him lastly die...
Página 254 - Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more.