The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1813 |
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... language cannot do justice to his gallantry . A gentleman of distinguished naval reputation , when in the Mediterranean with the American squadron , was introduced to captain James Vashan , esquire , now vice admiral of the red , the ...
... language cannot do justice to his gallantry . A gentleman of distinguished naval reputation , when in the Mediterranean with the American squadron , was introduced to captain James Vashan , esquire , now vice admiral of the red , the ...
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... language of one of them . selves , form " the wells of English undefiled . " They are empha- tically and peculiarly English . They are not characterized by the uniform and maintained elegance of the classics of antiquity , nor the ...
... language of one of them . selves , form " the wells of English undefiled . " They are empha- tically and peculiarly English . They are not characterized by the uniform and maintained elegance of the classics of antiquity , nor the ...
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... language were un- congenial with the temper of the people . The French taste is distinguished from the English in its loftier parts , as being more rhetoric , more equable , more ela- borately grand ; and in its lighter departments , as ...
... language were un- congenial with the temper of the people . The French taste is distinguished from the English in its loftier parts , as being more rhetoric , more equable , more ela- borately grand ; and in its lighter departments , as ...
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... language . The hexameter verse was adopted by the Greeks and Romans , as suited to the majesty of their tongue , abounding in pollysyllables , and these , marked accurately by quantity ; but the attempt failed , of Jodelle in France ...
... language . The hexameter verse was adopted by the Greeks and Romans , as suited to the majesty of their tongue , abounding in pollysyllables , and these , marked accurately by quantity ; but the attempt failed , of Jodelle in France ...
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... language what language can never achieve . But Scott abounds in descriptions , and descriptions of the most picturesque beauty , and the highest interest . The secret of this interest in Scott is to be discovered in the reason why we ...
... language what language can never achieve . But Scott abounds in descriptions , and descriptions of the most picturesque beauty , and the highest interest . The secret of this interest in Scott is to be discovered in the reason why we ...
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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.