The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1813 |
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... body with one of the first naval commissions . In February , 1776 , he was appointed to the command of the brig Lexington of sixteen guns . She was the first continental vessel of war that sailed from the port of Philadelphia . Having ...
... body with one of the first naval commissions . In February , 1776 , he was appointed to the command of the brig Lexington of sixteen guns . She was the first continental vessel of war that sailed from the port of Philadelphia . Having ...
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... condition , and shattering the feeble tenement which confines its range . This contest between love and generosity , between fancy and reason , between a vigorous mind and a fragile body , Scott has delineated with 24 ROKEBY .
... condition , and shattering the feeble tenement which confines its range . This contest between love and generosity , between fancy and reason , between a vigorous mind and a fragile body , Scott has delineated with 24 ROKEBY .
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mind and a fragile body , Scott has delineated with force and pa- thetic beauty ; and reminds us strongly of those characters , on which Rousseau delighted to expend his enchanting tenderness and delicious colouring . Behold the picture ...
mind and a fragile body , Scott has delineated with force and pa- thetic beauty ; and reminds us strongly of those characters , on which Rousseau delighted to expend his enchanting tenderness and delicious colouring . Behold the picture ...
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... body forth ; neither does he minutely display all the possi- ble varieties of feeling which the situation of his characters would naturally excite ; and , in this view , the elisions , occasioned by the dramatic form of his composition ...
... body forth ; neither does he minutely display all the possi- ble varieties of feeling which the situation of his characters would naturally excite ; and , in this view , the elisions , occasioned by the dramatic form of his composition ...
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... body wants to borrow water , Tell them ' tis all run out ; and if , as is The custom among neighbours , they should want A knife , an axe , a pestle , or a mortar , Tell them some rogues broke in and stole them all . Be sure let no one ...
... body wants to borrow water , Tell them ' tis all run out ; and if , as is The custom among neighbours , they should want A knife , an axe , a pestle , or a mortar , Tell them some rogues broke in and stole them all . Be sure let no one ...
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Էջ 179 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Էջ 174 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Էջ 164 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Էջ 174 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Էջ 647 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Էջ 33 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Էջ 163 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Էջ 516 - Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die...
Էջ 60 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Էջ 383 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.