The Port FolioJoseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1816 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... expression of your gratiude to God for the Salva- tion which he has been mercifully pleased , through the instrumen- tality of our brave fellow citizens , to effect in the midst of us . It is what the shades of those who have left you ...
... expression of your gratiude to God for the Salva- tion which he has been mercifully pleased , through the instrumen- tality of our brave fellow citizens , to effect in the midst of us . It is what the shades of those who have left you ...
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... expression of a tender regret , and as different from the impassioned , theatrical manner of the translator , as is the gentle grief of Richard the second , shaking the dust off his head , from the boisterous sorrow of Othello , clamour ...
... expression of a tender regret , and as different from the impassioned , theatrical manner of the translator , as is the gentle grief of Richard the second , shaking the dust off his head , from the boisterous sorrow of Othello , clamour ...
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... du monde il est permis au sage . Nor , although the sense is not essentially different , does it seem to be either clearly expressed or comprehended . VOL . 1 . F On the whole it may be observed , that however THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 41.
... du monde il est permis au sage . Nor , although the sense is not essentially different , does it seem to be either clearly expressed or comprehended . VOL . 1 . F On the whole it may be observed , that however THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 41.
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... expressed a desire : that his request bears with him all the authority of a law : that though he were entirely destitute of all the fire of genius , such condescension would light the flame , & c . The second preface is also in the ...
... expressed a desire : that his request bears with him all the authority of a law : that though he were entirely destitute of all the fire of genius , such condescension would light the flame , & c . The second preface is also in the ...
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... expressed in verse of almost every mea- sure . The poet has treated strangers , who were taught at Bour- deaux , as natives of the place who had become professors else- where . He seems to have limited himself to the professors of the ...
... expressed in verse of almost every mea- sure . The poet has treated strangers , who were taught at Bour- deaux , as natives of the place who had become professors else- where . He seems to have limited himself to the professors of the ...
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Page 416 - As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick, and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages, and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound: It
Page 6 - the wolf shall dwell with the Iamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf» and the young lion and the falling together, and a little child shall lead them. They shall not hurt nor destroy in
Page 361 - is willing but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, &c. And he came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. Mark says: And he went forward a little, &c. And he cometh and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou! couldst thou not watch one hour?
Page 133 - When any eminent person is about to enter their regions they make a great noise, like women in Philadelphia, at a fire in the night-time. In the most high and palmy state of Rome; A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and
Page 8 - Blessed be the Lord, my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight! my goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth the people under me!
Page 38 - Sweet Auburn! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here, as I take my solitary rounds Amidst thy tangling walks and ruin'd grounds, And, many a year elaps'd, return to view Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Page 480 - him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 41 - And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last.
Page 216 - So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his Stewart, call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last to the first. And when they came who were hired
Page 459 - the king, whom Salmanasar, the king of Assyria, led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt.