The Port Folio, Volumen3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
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... night in Paris , that the actors can only live by drawing full houses , and that they must some way or other gratify the taste of the audience , who , like the tired glutton whom Pope describes as labouring through a feast , tries all ...
... night in Paris , that the actors can only live by drawing full houses , and that they must some way or other gratify the taste of the audience , who , like the tired glutton whom Pope describes as labouring through a feast , tries all ...
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... Nights Enter- tainments , or the heathen mythology , and the music , for which a cer- tain number of lines of certain length have been ordered , condescends , as little as possible , to borrow aid from sense . The wonders which we read ...
... Nights Enter- tainments , or the heathen mythology , and the music , for which a cer- tain number of lines of certain length have been ordered , condescends , as little as possible , to borrow aid from sense . The wonders which we read ...
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... 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 stationed in that neighbourhood , and no ...
... 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 stationed in that neighbourhood , and no ...
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... night , while some of us were in bed , one of the sailors entered the cabin , and informed us that there was a boat full of armed men along side , who were coming on board . He had scarcely spoken when we were surprised by the entrance ...
... night , while some of us were in bed , one of the sailors entered the cabin , and informed us that there was a boat full of armed men along side , who were coming on board . He had scarcely spoken when we were surprised by the entrance ...
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... night there was a severe storm , accompanied by a most violent rain , but still she was compelled to remain in that situation all night . In the morning , the commandant happening to pass that way in his boat , ordered her to be set at ...
... night there was a severe storm , accompanied by a most violent rain , but still she was compelled to remain in that situation all night . In the morning , the commandant happening to pass that way in his boat , ordered her to be set at ...
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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...