The Port Folio, Band 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
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time enough to go from one house , or even from one town to another . The Chinese , who are a very wise people , get over the difficulty very ingeniously . The character whom we are soon to figure to ourselves as in a very distant place ...
time enough to go from one house , or even from one town to another . The Chinese , who are a very wise people , get over the difficulty very ingeniously . The character whom we are soon to figure to ourselves as in a very distant place ...
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... town for another , and going to an Austrian post , gives orders to prepare for the ge- neral hospital of the French army , with so much confidence , that the commandant is glad to hurry out of it and leave him in possession . This gives ...
... town for another , and going to an Austrian post , gives orders to prepare for the ge- neral hospital of the French army , with so much confidence , that the commandant is glad to hurry out of it and leave him in possession . This gives ...
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... town , which was making a very desperate resistance . An assault was to be given to one of the enemy's advanced bastions , but they sprung a mine in the very moment of attack , and blew up a considerable number of the assailants , and ...
... town , which was making a very desperate resistance . An assault was to be given to one of the enemy's advanced bastions , but they sprung a mine in the very moment of attack , and blew up a considerable number of the assailants , and ...
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... towns . The only officer of any magnitude whom I have seen , is commodore Dublin , an English negro , who commands a schooner of about sixty tons burthen , the largest vessel in the service . This great naval character wears an ...
... towns . The only officer of any magnitude whom I have seen , is commodore Dublin , an English negro , who commands a schooner of about sixty tons burthen , the largest vessel in the service . This great naval character wears an ...
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... town , that during the two preceding nights there had been a massacre in the north suburb , cal- led Carénage . I took some pains to inquire into the nature of this ru- mour , and found it , unhappily , to be too true . Guards were ...
... town , that during the two preceding nights there had been a massacre in the north suburb , cal- led Carénage . I took some pains to inquire into the nature of this ru- mour , and found it , unhappily , to be too true . Guards were ...
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admiration Amelia American amusements appear attention beautiful BENJAMIN WEST body bridge called chain character charcoal command countenance countess of Shaftesbury death degree Dessalines doctor Johnson dress EDWARD PREBLE Edward Shippen effect elegant emperor England English excited expression eyes favour feel feet fortune France French frequently friends genius gentleman give guineas hand heart honour human hundred Junius ladies language letter Limnades live Louis XIV manner means ment miles mind motion Nantes nation nature never New-York night o'er object observed occasion officers OLDSCHOOL Paine passed passions perhaps person pleasure Port au Prince PORT FOLIO present reader received respect revolution river scene sentiments side soldiers soon soul Spain speak spirit supposed Tangier taste thing thou thought tion tones town Tripoli vessel virtue voice Voltaire whole
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Seite 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.
Seite 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 390 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy...
Seite 388 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Seite 193 - Of all their regions; powers which only the control of Omnipotence restrains from laying creation waste, and filling the vast expanse of space with ruin and confusion. To display the motives and actions of beings thus superior, so far as human reason can examine them, or human imagination represent them, is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed.
Seite 341 - 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.
Seite 388 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And...
Seite 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...