The Port Folio, Volumes 5-6Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1808 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... French , 363 . B Biography , 94-116-137-163-181-204 -214-215-251-267-277--340 -351-356-368-380-410-411 . Burke , letter from , 281-297 . C Classical Learning , 5-19-56-74—89— 103-121-134-149-164-233-- 250-261-279-289--305-349-- 363 ...
... French , 363 . B Biography , 94-116-137-163-181-204 -214-215-251-267-277--340 -351-356-368-380-410-411 . Burke , letter from , 281-297 . C Classical Learning , 5-19-56-74—89— 103-121-134-149-164-233-- 250-261-279-289--305-349-- 363 ...
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... French Academy , have en- deavoured , the one in his essays , entitied The Wisdom of the Ancients , and the other , in his discourse on Mythology , to make the ancients much wiser than they really were , and to attribute views and ...
... French Academy , have en- deavoured , the one in his essays , entitied The Wisdom of the Ancients , and the other , in his discourse on Mythology , to make the ancients much wiser than they really were , and to attribute views and ...
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... French letter of the same authour , which is so mean , heavy , and inferiour to any French compositions of the same age , as to satisfy us , that Budæus , at least , had forgot his native tongue , while he excelled in the knowledge of ...
... French letter of the same authour , which is so mean , heavy , and inferiour to any French compositions of the same age , as to satisfy us , that Budæus , at least , had forgot his native tongue , while he excelled in the knowledge of ...
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... French . I have sought in vain , for further information from the same elegant source . After break- The Nuns in snow - white garments , were sitting on sylvan seats , the grass their carpet , and the sky their canopy . Neither Monk nor ...
... French . I have sought in vain , for further information from the same elegant source . After break- The Nuns in snow - white garments , were sitting on sylvan seats , the grass their carpet , and the sky their canopy . Neither Monk nor ...
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... French one ran away . EPITAPHS . The following is one of the best En- glish epitaphs we have ever seen upon an insignificant fellow . Every one remembers the French inscription , Colas vivoit , Colas est mort . Poor John Gray , below he ...
... French one ran away . EPITAPHS . The following is one of the best En- glish epitaphs we have ever seen upon an insignificant fellow . Every one remembers the French inscription , Colas vivoit , Colas est mort . Poor John Gray , below he ...
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Page 31 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 98 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 235 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Page 132 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Page 217 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light...
Page 235 - It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Page 296 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet ; Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame, And among brother mortals — be GOLDSMITH his name : When on earth this...
Page 98 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Page 294 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck. The oak of the forest did not grow there ; but the elegant shrubbery and the fragrant parterre appeared in gay succession.
Page 152 - that if ever " there was a good Christian, without knowing himself " to be so, it was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear, and loth to confess.