The Port Folio, Volume 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... honour , trust and emolument , which were conferred on him , he was appointed a member of the proprietary and governor's council , a body of men not for- tuitously drawn together from the mass of population , but BIOGRAPHY OF.
... honour , trust and emolument , which were conferred on him , he was appointed a member of the proprietary and governor's council , a body of men not for- tuitously drawn together from the mass of population , but BIOGRAPHY OF.
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... the world from the earli- est period , arrested my attention ; when I discovered they had accompanied empire , as shade does the body when it is most illuminated , and that they had declined both in 8 THE FINE ARTS .
... the world from the earli- est period , arrested my attention ; when I discovered they had accompanied empire , as shade does the body when it is most illuminated , and that they had declined both in 8 THE FINE ARTS .
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... young sovereign was interested in their prosperity ; and the artists were by his royal charter raised into the dignity , the independence , and , VOL . III . as it were , the municipal permanency of a body THE FINE ARTS .
... young sovereign was interested in their prosperity ; and the artists were by his royal charter raised into the dignity , the independence , and , VOL . III . as it were , the municipal permanency of a body THE FINE ARTS .
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as it were , the municipal permanency of a body corporate ; in which body I found myself a member , and a director ; but party and jealousy in two or three years interrupted the harmony and finally dissolved that society . At this ...
as it were , the municipal permanency of a body corporate ; in which body I found myself a member , and a director ; but party and jealousy in two or three years interrupted the harmony and finally dissolved that society . At this ...
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... body , and satisfies the opinion I had previously en- tertained of their zeal to cherish useful knowledge among their fellow citizens . These are , my dear sir , the characteristics of a wise peo- ple , and I hope , that the fostering ...
... body , and satisfies the opinion I had previously en- tertained of their zeal to cherish useful knowledge among their fellow citizens . These are , my dear sir , the characteristics of a wise peo- ple , and I hope , that the fostering ...
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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 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
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 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 390 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy...
Page 388 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 193 - Of all their regions; powers which only the control of Omnipotence restrains from laying creation waste, and filling the vast expanse of space with ruin and confusion. To display the motives and actions of beings thus superior, so far as human reason can examine them, or human imagination represent them, is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed.
Page 341 - 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 388 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And...
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...