The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... nations excused nothing in his own ; he affects antiquity of style , and as some stain their hair to look young , he discolours his to appear old . Being informed of the character of these historians , we passed on , and saw seated ...
... nations excused nothing in his own ; he affects antiquity of style , and as some stain their hair to look young , he discolours his to appear old . Being informed of the character of these historians , we passed on , and saw seated ...
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... nation of readers . Taking one with another , a far greater number of the people devote some of their time to reading , than of any other nation of the world . In Great Britain France , and Germany , those who do , or who can read ...
... nation of readers . Taking one with another , a far greater number of the people devote some of their time to reading , than of any other nation of the world . In Great Britain France , and Germany , those who do , or who can read ...
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... nation , perpetually fight their battles ; and , in every species of invec- tive and stratagem , endeavour to get ... nations ! And do they not inform us of the fate of battles , the schemes of statesmen , and the change of rulers ...
... nation , perpetually fight their battles ; and , in every species of invec- tive and stratagem , endeavour to get ... nations ! And do they not inform us of the fate of battles , the schemes of statesmen , and the change of rulers ...
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... nations , yet it may at least , be said they are not worse . " Such was my good friend's invective against newspapers . It is easy to see that there is much error and extravagance in it ; and that the fault , thus imputed to the people ...
... nations , yet it may at least , be said they are not worse . " Such was my good friend's invective against newspapers . It is easy to see that there is much error and extravagance in it ; and that the fault , thus imputed to the people ...
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... nations ; they might be made perhaps to realise the dream of a universal language , which has amused the ima- gination of some ingenious philosophers : nor would such a language want force , for in addition to what is called talking on ...
... nations ; they might be made perhaps to realise the dream of a universal language , which has amused the ima- gination of some ingenious philosophers : nor would such a language want force , for in addition to what is called talking on ...
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Page 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?