The Port Folio, Volume 6Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... muse . The celebrated writers of anti- quity always mention her with a kind of transport . Even Lon- ginus , this impartial and severe critic , hesitated not to propose her as the most perfect model of her kind , and we may easily ...
... muse . The celebrated writers of anti- quity always mention her with a kind of transport . Even Lon- ginus , this impartial and severe critic , hesitated not to propose her as the most perfect model of her kind , and we may easily ...
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... Muses . These sounds at such an hour are doubly delightful and endear- ing . They prove , if any evidence is wanting , those inexhausti- ble resources of mind , that no concurrence of adverse fortune can impair . It has been supposed ...
... Muses . These sounds at such an hour are doubly delightful and endear- ing . They prove , if any evidence is wanting , those inexhausti- ble resources of mind , that no concurrence of adverse fortune can impair . It has been supposed ...
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... Muse of Virgil denominated the victim Faction , and insulted her dying agonies . Horace while he participated in the smiles of the tyrant , and was allowed to enjoy his Bacchanalian revels , turned a deaf ear to the voice of his country ...
... Muse of Virgil denominated the victim Faction , and insulted her dying agonies . Horace while he participated in the smiles of the tyrant , and was allowed to enjoy his Bacchanalian revels , turned a deaf ear to the voice of his country ...
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... muse combined to gether . Exquisite as this is , we doubt whether the poet was sensible of it ; he gazed with fervency on those illustrious models - kindled with indignation at the calumny , and brought those models and that calumny ...
... muse combined to gether . Exquisite as this is , we doubt whether the poet was sensible of it ; he gazed with fervency on those illustrious models - kindled with indignation at the calumny , and brought those models and that calumny ...
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... muse has not perished in the general wreck of English taste . With what heart a false virtuoso could draw aside the curtain , expose the precious fragment of antiquity , and lament the decline of English genius , after the perusal of ...
... muse has not perished in the general wreck of English taste . With what heart a false virtuoso could draw aside the curtain , expose the precious fragment of antiquity , and lament the decline of English genius , after the perusal of ...
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Page 490 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 199 - Nature bless the inhabitants of this place with all the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of life ; assist in the erection and completion of this...
Page 279 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 279 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 88 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 83 - But I. that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph...
Page 282 - ... that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God...
Page 91 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 612 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 238 - The husband also, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correction. For, as he is to answer for her misbehaviour, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children; for whom the master or parent is also liable in some cases to answer.