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Common terms and phrasesaccent Adam Smith admiration affection American amusement antimony appears attention beautiful Billy Taylor Blackletter called captain cause character christian colour command court delight Derry door elegant emotions emphasis expression Falstaff favour feelings French frequently frigate genius gentleman give grace hand happy heart honour human ideas labours lady Laertes language learned letter limestone literary living M'Intosh manner means ment merit mind moral mountains mulatto nation nature never Nicholas Biddle o'er object observed occasion Oldschool opinion pain passions pause perhaps person Petrarch Philadelphia pleasure poem poet Polonius PORT FOLIO Quiz racter reader Rebellion Roads respect scarcely scene Seneca Lake sentiments Sir Ch soon soul spirit style sweet syllables talents taste thee thing thou thought tion tophe verse vessel virtue Voltaire whip-poor-will whole words writing young Popular passagesPage 249 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief... Page 169 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back; — Their shots along the deep slowly boom: Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom. Page 229 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Page 65 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward ? Who calls me villain ? breaks my pate across ? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face ? Tweaks me by the nose ? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs ? Who does me this ? Ha! Page 168 - Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze ! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe, And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. Page 166 - Forbid not thee to weep : Nor will the Christian host, Nor will thy father's spirit grieve, To see thee, on the battle's eve, Lamenting, take a mournful leave Of her who loved thee most : She was the rainbow to thy sight ! Thy sun — thy heaven — of lost delight ! ' To-morrow let us do or die. But when the bolt of death is hurled, Ah ! whither then with thee to fly, Shall Outalissi roam the world ? Seek we thy once-loved home... Page 67 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't. Page 536 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Page 249 - tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewel it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then: and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Page 169 - Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn ; Why speak ye no word ! " — said Glenara the stern. " And tell me, I charge you ! ye clan of my spouse, Why fold ye your mantles, why cloud ye your brows? References from web pagesFrank Shuffelton - Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson ... JSTOR: Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie ... §4. "The Literary Magazine; The Port Folio". XX. Magazines ... The Port Folio (American periodical) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia 180 NOTES AND QUERIES May, 1962 Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816 | Art Bulletin ... Port Folio: Information and Much More from Answers.com CV: Irving N. Rothman Magazines Sacred Book of the Indians? Bibliographic information
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