The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1813 |
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... death in the month of November 1633. We mention these facts to show , that the family of Ames had been long distin- guished by their love of freedom . On the death of young Ames's father , his mother was left to experience the anxieties ...
... death in the month of November 1633. We mention these facts to show , that the family of Ames had been long distin- guished by their love of freedom . On the death of young Ames's father , his mother was left to experience the anxieties ...
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... death . He was a striking example of magnanimity and patience under suffering . Retaining always the vigour and serenity of his mind , he appeared to make those reflections which became his situation . When speaking of his first attack ...
... death . He was a striking example of magnanimity and patience under suffering . Retaining always the vigour and serenity of his mind , he appeared to make those reflections which became his situation . When speaking of his first attack ...
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... death , which occurred in the fifty - first year of his age , bore testimony to the conscious purity and rectitude of his life . It celebrated his praises in a style of panegyric which the lan- guage of the eulogist would emulate in ...
... death , which occurred in the fifty - first year of his age , bore testimony to the conscious purity and rectitude of his life . It celebrated his praises in a style of panegyric which the lan- guage of the eulogist would emulate in ...
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... death of one of his patrons and in the resignation of the other . He was thus reduced by poverty to sell his most admired pieces at very inconsiderable prices and to labour with double industry for subsistence . But he remain- ed serene ...
... death of one of his patrons and in the resignation of the other . He was thus reduced by poverty to sell his most admired pieces at very inconsiderable prices and to labour with double industry for subsistence . But he remain- ed serene ...
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... death of Germanicus . The spirit which is discovered in the execution of this piece , the livid and death - like visage in the countenance of the sufferer , was peculiarly suited to the pencil of this artist , whose carnations at all ...
... death of Germanicus . The spirit which is discovered in the execution of this piece , the livid and death - like visage in the countenance of the sufferer , was peculiarly suited to the pencil of this artist , whose carnations at all ...
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Page 57 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 195 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied...
Page 60 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 191 - Adieu, adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight ; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land — Good night...
Page 193 - For who would trust the seeming sighs Of wife or paramour ? Fresh feeres will dry the bright blue eyes We late saw streaming o'er. For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near ; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear.
Page 193 - With thee, my bark, I'll swiftly go Athwart the foaming brine ; Nor care what land thou bear'st me to, So not again to mine.
Page 174 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 69 - The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye; While England lives, his fame can never die: But he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for half an age; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, and artist, share one common grave.
Page 474 - And the swallow's song in the eaves. His arms enclosed a blooming boy, Who listened, with tears of sorrow and joy, To the dangers his father had passed ; And his wife — by turns she wept and smiled, As she looked on the father of her child, Returned to her heart at last. — He wakes at the vessel's sudden roll, And the rush of waters is in his soul.