The Philadelphia Souvenir: A Collection of Fugitive Pieces from the Philadelphia Press, Issue 337John Elihu Hall Published at the Port folio office, by Harrison Hall, William Brown, printer, 1826 - American literature - 212 pages Biographical sketches of Dennie and his circle, with selections from their writings. |
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... give me one of Ackerman's Souvenirs , and you are welcome to all our domestic manufacture . This observation gave a spur to certain vague speculations which had been floating in my brain . I had been meditating on a volume which should ...
... give me one of Ackerman's Souvenirs , and you are welcome to all our domestic manufacture . This observation gave a spur to certain vague speculations which had been floating in my brain . I had been meditating on a volume which should ...
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... give you , " I continued , " gems from the caskets of several artisans who might have become more skilful in the working of this species of metal , if they had made it their pro- fession . Although my volume may not be po- pular with ...
... give you , " I continued , " gems from the caskets of several artisans who might have become more skilful in the working of this species of metal , if they had made it their pro- fession . Although my volume may not be po- pular with ...
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... give you back your coins with all their rust , It seems a miracle of higher strain Than all the Tuscan sibyl books contain , And , in memorial of so strange a deed , A votive lamb should on the altar bleed . If now mine eyes a man of ...
... give you back your coins with all their rust , It seems a miracle of higher strain Than all the Tuscan sibyl books contain , And , in memorial of so strange a deed , A votive lamb should on the altar bleed . If now mine eyes a man of ...
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... Give all his swiftness for a wealthy gout ; Nay , should he hesitate in such a case , Send for his doctor and his waistcoat lace : For what can all his racing talent boot ? A hungry stomach and a nimble foot . And what avails the olive ...
... Give all his swiftness for a wealthy gout ; Nay , should he hesitate in such a case , Send for his doctor and his waistcoat lace : For what can all his racing talent boot ? A hungry stomach and a nimble foot . And what avails the olive ...
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... give their solemn seal the lie , Must thou from common miseries be free ? And art thou formed of better clay than we ? Thou , favoured by the gods with special grace ; We , the vile refuse of a worthless race ? Thine eyes to crimes of ...
... give their solemn seal the lie , Must thou from common miseries be free ? And art thou formed of better clay than we ? Thou , favoured by the gods with special grace ; We , the vile refuse of a worthless race ? Thine eyes to crimes of ...
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Page 112 - Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords...
Page 102 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 148 - Jack and Gill went up the hill To draw a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after.
Page 124 - The guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 91 - I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.
Page 124 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men, wont to watch, On duty sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 4 - Yet, yet forgive me, oh ye sacred few, Whom late by Delaware's green banks I knew; Whom, known and loved through many a social eve, 'Twas bliss to live with, and 'twas pain to leave.
Page 145 - ... liable, and we anticipate his immediate rise to resume his labors. But how are we undeceived by the heart-rending tale that Jack fell down And broke his crown— Nothing now remains but to deplore the premature fate of the unhappy John. The mention of the crown has much perplexed the commentators. But my learned reader will doubtless agree with me in conjecturing that, as the crown is often used metaphorically for the head, and as that part is, or, without any disparagement to the unfortunate...
Page 100 - In different courses different tempers run ; He hates the moon : I sicken at the sun. Wound up at twelve at noon, his clock goes right ; Mine better goes, wound up at twelve at night.