The Port Folio, Volumen 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1810 |
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... friends had procured for him , was appointed minister plenipotentiary to England . It was here that he contracted a marriage with a lady of great merit , but of no very distinguished family , and of no fortune , and thinking it best to ...
... friends had procured for him , was appointed minister plenipotentiary to England . It was here that he contracted a marriage with a lady of great merit , but of no very distinguished family , and of no fortune , and thinking it best to ...
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... friendship with Dessalines . Their officers arriving in the different ports of the island , were received with the most flatter- ing attention and respect . There was nobody like " les Anglois , ” and during their stay , an American was ...
... friendship with Dessalines . Their officers arriving in the different ports of the island , were received with the most flatter- ing attention and respect . There was nobody like " les Anglois , ” and during their stay , an American was ...
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... friendship with Hayti to come forward and produce their cir- tificates , informing them that , upon so doing , they should have liberty to leave the island . This notification created considerable alarm among the whites , for very few ...
... friendship with Hayti to come forward and produce their cir- tificates , informing them that , upon so doing , they should have liberty to leave the island . This notification created considerable alarm among the whites , for very few ...
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... friendship for them , under the impression that , should a massacre take place , they would be preserved by them . But still they all flattered them- selves that their fears were groundless . At length , however , an ac- count is ...
... friendship for them , under the impression that , should a massacre take place , they would be preserved by them . But still they all flattered them- selves that their fears were groundless . At length , however , an ac- count is ...
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... friends were safe , that they had performed their duty like men , and had fallen like heroes . Last evening I left the shore for the last time , and came on board the vessel in which I have taken my passage for the United States , and ...
... friends were safe , that they had performed their duty like men , and had fallen like heroes . Last evening I left the shore for the last time , and came on board the vessel in which I have taken my passage for the United States , and ...
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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...