The Port Folio, المجلد 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1810 |
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... he had now numbered upwards of three score and ten . Placed in cir- cumstances abundantly affluent , and feeling that the otium vesperis vitæ was imperiously called for by his weary and THE HON . EDWARD SHIPPEN , ESQ . 3.
... he had now numbered upwards of three score and ten . Placed in cir- cumstances abundantly affluent , and feeling that the otium vesperis vitæ was imperiously called for by his weary and THE HON . EDWARD SHIPPEN , ESQ . 3.
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... feel , he engaged in an undertaking of high importance to his country and his profession , and has brought it to a state of perfection which may cause it to vie with in- stitutions of a similar nature in the old world , and which the ...
... feel , he engaged in an undertaking of high importance to his country and his profession , and has brought it to a state of perfection which may cause it to vie with in- stitutions of a similar nature in the old world , and which the ...
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... to treat these vil- lains in any other than a civil manner , and , in return , they conducted themselves very orderly . But a taste of our liquor made them so well pleased with our company , that we began to feel 42 MEMOIRS OF HAYTI .
... to treat these vil- lains in any other than a civil manner , and , in return , they conducted themselves very orderly . But a taste of our liquor made them so well pleased with our company , that we began to feel 42 MEMOIRS OF HAYTI .
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pleased with our company , that we began to feel uneasy at their soci- ability ; and it was with some difficulty , after presenting them with some bread and meat and a bottle of gin , we could get rid of them . They then left us , and ...
pleased with our company , that we began to feel uneasy at their soci- ability ; and it was with some difficulty , after presenting them with some bread and meat and a bottle of gin , we could get rid of them . They then left us , and ...
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... feels no more compunction in killing a Frenchman than the latter does in tearing to pieces a negro . Both delight in that species of employment . It is a recreation and a feast to them . NOTES MADE IN 1809 . The first great naval ...
... feels no more compunction in killing a Frenchman than the latter does in tearing to pieces a negro . Both delight in that species of employment . It is a recreation and a feast to them . NOTES MADE IN 1809 . The first great naval ...
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الصفحة 203 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
الصفحة 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
الصفحة 204 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
الصفحة 201 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter ; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out. and wept bitterly.
الصفحة 396 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
الصفحة 204 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
الصفحة 340 - O'er many a distant foreign land ; Each place, each province I have tried, And sung and danced my saraband : But all their charms could not prevail To steal my heart from yonder vale.
الصفحة 206 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
الصفحة 489 - Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender, lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria. Ha! it sinks, it falls; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. 'Tislife! 'tis warm! 'tis she! 'tis she herself ! Nor dead nor shade, but breathing and alive!
الصفحة 155 - It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking of. The faculty must in some degree be born with us; and it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has assured me, that the greatest pleasure he took in reading Virgil was in examining /Eneas's voyage by the map...