The Port Folio, Volumen 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1810 |
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... soldier , joined another party in the attack , and then as gravely marched his command back to their quarters . Des- touches had now seen enough of a soldier's life , and became a player again , then a writer of plays , and finally the ...
... soldier , joined another party in the attack , and then as gravely marched his command back to their quarters . Des- touches had now seen enough of a soldier's life , and became a player again , then a writer of plays , and finally the ...
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... soldiers who was upon the expedition had stated to him in con- fidence , that they had destroyed sixty white men , women , and chil- dren , and that Colonel Joysin , with the Administrator Ferrier , ac- companied them for the purpose of ...
... soldiers who was upon the expedition had stated to him in con- fidence , that they had destroyed sixty white men , women , and chil- dren , and that Colonel Joysin , with the Administrator Ferrier , ac- companied them for the purpose of ...
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... soldiers . The work constantly carried on at the fortifications in the interior , has required the labour of nearly all the troops , insomuch that it has very seldom happened that more that two to three hundred soldiers , if as many ...
... soldiers . The work constantly carried on at the fortifications in the interior , has required the labour of nearly all the troops , insomuch that it has very seldom happened that more that two to three hundred soldiers , if as many ...
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... soldiers with their muskets . Their appearance was in the highest degree savage . They were ragged , wore frightful mustachios , and had the tout ensemble of regular bred assassins . They informed us that they had been sent on board to ...
... soldiers with their muskets . Their appearance was in the highest degree savage . They were ragged , wore frightful mustachios , and had the tout ensemble of regular bred assassins . They informed us that they had been sent on board to ...
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... soldiers from a neigh- bouring guard - house ran , with charged bayonets , at the American , and , had he not expertly jumped on one side out of the way , he would certainly have been run through . The bayonets entered a coffee - hogs ...
... soldiers from a neigh- bouring guard - house ran , with charged bayonets , at the American , and , had he not expertly jumped on one side out of the way , he would certainly have been run through . The bayonets entered a coffee - hogs ...
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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...
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 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.
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 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 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 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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...