The Port Folio, Volume 1Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
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... reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man , Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported and alarm'd ! What can preserve my life ? or what destroy ? An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ...
... reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man , Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported and alarm'd ! What can preserve my life ? or what destroy ? An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ...
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... reason- able to collect an opinion of one , by a comparison with the other . But quantum distat ab illo . Richard is respectable in the midst of crimes ; Macbeth is contemptible even on the throne . The one acts the tyrant , but he does ...
... reason- able to collect an opinion of one , by a comparison with the other . But quantum distat ab illo . Richard is respectable in the midst of crimes ; Macbeth is contemptible even on the throne . The one acts the tyrant , but he does ...
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... reason , the particulars of what is said of the " clouds of musketoes which literally darkened the air , and of the hosts of alligators , that roared like thunder , " neither story being quite new , nor half so miraculous as those about ...
... reason , the particulars of what is said of the " clouds of musketoes which literally darkened the air , and of the hosts of alligators , that roared like thunder , " neither story being quite new , nor half so miraculous as those about ...
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... reason for doubting the assent of your hearers to the truth of such a story . Romeo , who seems to resemble your Archibald in some things , was , I thought , the best specimen of an amorous madman that could be produced , but your ...
... reason for doubting the assent of your hearers to the truth of such a story . Romeo , who seems to resemble your Archibald in some things , was , I thought , the best specimen of an amorous madman that could be produced , but your ...
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... reason's stern control , It wak'd , but only wak'd to weep . Yet vain thy wish , too charming maid , To call thy lovely wanderer home ; Ten thousand for that one I've paid , And hence , no , never shall it roam . The picture of Night ...
... reason's stern control , It wak'd , but only wak'd to weep . Yet vain thy wish , too charming maid , To call thy lovely wanderer home ; Ten thousand for that one I've paid , And hence , no , never shall it roam . The picture of Night ...
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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
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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.