The Port Folio, Volume 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
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... reason for declining it ; but do not make any hesitation , as if you made your acceptance a matter of favour . In a mixed company let your conversation be very guarded , for , without intending it , you may say something , which a ...
... reason for declining it ; but do not make any hesitation , as if you made your acceptance a matter of favour . In a mixed company let your conversation be very guarded , for , without intending it , you may say something , which a ...
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... reasons the shepherds must be very watch- ful , lest they make their escape , whole flocks having sometimes stray- ed two or three leagues while the shepherd was asleep ; and on these Occasions they generally take the straightest road ...
... reasons the shepherds must be very watch- ful , lest they make their escape , whole flocks having sometimes stray- ed two or three leagues while the shepherd was asleep ; and on these Occasions they generally take the straightest road ...
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... reason which I shall suggest , will probably for- ever elude , the utmost endeavours of the curious . Numbers of per- sons , probably twenty at least , have been at different times named as the author . Those who have brought forward ...
... reason which I shall suggest , will probably for- ever elude , the utmost endeavours of the curious . Numbers of per- sons , probably twenty at least , have been at different times named as the author . Those who have brought forward ...
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... reason much to fear ; The very breath you here inhale , To cause disease can scarcely fail ; " Tis better now this scene to leave , Lest friends and kindred for you grieve . You linger still ! it is not meet , Your spirit soon , you ...
... reason much to fear ; The very breath you here inhale , To cause disease can scarcely fail ; " Tis better now this scene to leave , Lest friends and kindred for you grieve . You linger still ! it is not meet , Your spirit soon , you ...
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... Reason seems no longer free ; When all the powers of sense arise In wildering mutiny , ' Tis Fancy then exerts her witching power . A triumph , but the triumph of an hour . When intellectual graces shine , Though in the plainest person ...
... Reason seems no longer free ; When all the powers of sense arise In wildering mutiny , ' Tis Fancy then exerts her witching power . A triumph , but the triumph of an hour . When intellectual graces shine , Though in the plainest person ...
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Página 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.
Página 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 390 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...