The Port Folio, Volume 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1810 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... lives , when the mas- ter of the house , or the governor of the castle , as they had supposed him , interferes and reveals the ... live in the memory of a great part of the audience , are converted into personages of the drama . Voltaire ...
... lives , when the mas- ter of the house , or the governor of the castle , as they had supposed him , interferes and reveals the ... live in the memory of a great part of the audience , are converted into personages of the drama . Voltaire ...
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... live by drawing full houses , and that they must some way or other gratify the taste of the audience , who , like the tired glutton whom Pope describes as labouring through a feast , tries all ways to stimulate an appetite , " and calls ...
... live by drawing full houses , and that they must some way or other gratify the taste of the audience , who , like the tired glutton whom Pope describes as labouring through a feast , tries all ways to stimulate an appetite , " and calls ...
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... live to be old , take their station , I am told , as beggars at a church door , and die in an hos- pital . The demand of the establishment , meanwhile , is kept up by a supply from needy parents , who are satisfied that their children ...
... live to be old , take their station , I am told , as beggars at a church door , and die in an hos- pital . The demand of the establishment , meanwhile , is kept up by a supply from needy parents , who are satisfied that their children ...
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... lives ; but with what satisfaction would their dying moments have been attended , when they reflected that their wives , children , and friends were safe , that they had performed their duty like men , and had fallen like heroes . Last ...
... lives ; but with what satisfaction would their dying moments have been attended , when they reflected that their wives , children , and friends were safe , that they had performed their duty like men , and had fallen like heroes . Last ...
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... live and die like one . Give a man work , and he will find money . Unless you are perfectly well informed , do not venture to give your opinion upon a work of art . It may injure the artist , and probably will occasion your judgment to ...
... live and die like one . Give a man work , and he will find money . Unless you are perfectly well informed , do not venture to give your opinion upon a work of art . It may injure the artist , and probably will occasion your judgment to ...
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Page 203 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
Page 204 - 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.
Page 201 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter ; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out. and wept bitterly.
Page 396 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 204 - 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.
Page 340 - O'er many a distant foreign land ; Each place, each province I have tried, And sung and danced my saraband : But all their charms could not prevail To steal my heart from yonder vale.
Page 206 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 489 - Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender, lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria. Ha! it sinks, it falls; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. 'Tislife! 'tis warm! 'tis she! 'tis she herself ! Nor dead nor shade, but breathing and alive!
Page 155 - It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking of. The faculty must in some degree be born with us; and it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has assured me, that the greatest pleasure he took in reading Virgil was in examining /Eneas's voyage by the map...