The Port Folio, Томове 5–6Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1808 |
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... talents to some active pursuit , and goes in quest of Fame , either in the camp of Glory , or the groves of Science . SENECA , a philosopher , a moralist , and a man of letters , holds a lan- guage , the very echo of that of the Roman ...
... talents to some active pursuit , and goes in quest of Fame , either in the camp of Glory , or the groves of Science . SENECA , a philosopher , a moralist , and a man of letters , holds a lan- guage , the very echo of that of the Roman ...
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... talents , and eccentrick humour of their authour , he has always excited an un- common share of attention , every anec- dote respecting him is caught up with avidity . It must be confessed , that the materials of his Biography are mea ...
... talents , and eccentrick humour of their authour , he has always excited an un- common share of attention , every anec- dote respecting him is caught up with avidity . It must be confessed , that the materials of his Biography are mea ...
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... talents , without discre- tion . His parliamentary life , though short , was honourable . However er- roneous might be some of his early political sentiments , he never failed to preserve an independence of charac- ter . Firm to the ...
... talents , without discre- tion . His parliamentary life , though short , was honourable . However er- roneous might be some of his early political sentiments , he never failed to preserve an independence of charac- ter . Firm to the ...
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... talents and endowments provoked en- vy and hostility . By an evil and an adulterous generation , in certain exe - chives of Genius , and the rolls of Rhe- crable epochs , in the annals of man- kind , the sunbeams of Truth and Genius are ...
... talents and endowments provoked en- vy and hostility . By an evil and an adulterous generation , in certain exe - chives of Genius , and the rolls of Rhe- crable epochs , in the annals of man- kind , the sunbeams of Truth and Genius are ...
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... talents and six- teen minæ , or somewhat less than five thousand dollars . — Demost . Plead . against Phersippus . Exclusive of establishments destined principally to agricultural pursuits , the dif ferent vallies contained many others ...
... talents and six- teen minæ , or somewhat less than five thousand dollars . — Demost . Plead . against Phersippus . Exclusive of establishments destined principally to agricultural pursuits , the dif ferent vallies contained many others ...
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Страница 98 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Страница 235 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Страница 132 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Страница 217 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light...
Страница 235 - It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Страница 296 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet ; Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame, And among brother mortals — be GOLDSMITH his name : When on earth this...
Страница 98 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Страница 294 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck. The oak of the forest did not grow there ; but the elegant shrubbery and the fragrant parterre appeared in gay succession.
Страница 152 - that if ever " there was a good Christian, without knowing himself " to be so, it was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear, and loth to confess.