The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1813 |
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... head of society . He may rise and flourish for a time , but his fall is as certain as his descent to the grave . As happily illustrating and confirming the preceding obser- vations , we cannot resist the temptation of introducing , in ...
... head of society . He may rise and flourish for a time , but his fall is as certain as his descent to the grave . As happily illustrating and confirming the preceding obser- vations , we cannot resist the temptation of introducing , in ...
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... head ; but he even went further , and absolutely debarred them the privilege of writing books ! He thought that a woman might be far more usefully employed in superintending her household and her family . But to this we may reply in the ...
... head ; but he even went further , and absolutely debarred them the privilege of writing books ! He thought that a woman might be far more usefully employed in superintending her household and her family . But to this we may reply in the ...
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... head with poles they could scarcely rear , and at length bringing him to the ground in the most bloody manner . The remaining sailors soon give way , and fly to their ships , and even into the river itself , for refuge . The friends do ...
... head with poles they could scarcely rear , and at length bringing him to the ground in the most bloody manner . The remaining sailors soon give way , and fly to their ships , and even into the river itself , for refuge . The friends do ...
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... head only to belong to the king , and the tail & c . to the queen , in order to supply her majesty's wardrobe with whale bone . ( Quere , were stays or hoops then in fashion ? ) From the same authority , we learn , that every lord ...
... head only to belong to the king , and the tail & c . to the queen , in order to supply her majesty's wardrobe with whale bone . ( Quere , were stays or hoops then in fashion ? ) From the same authority , we learn , that every lord ...
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... head , he quits his company , goes immediately to his chamber , from which he re- turns with a very gay countenance . He is not always , however , as I was informed , of so pleasant a disposition . He often plays at chess , particularly ...
... head , he quits his company , goes immediately to his chamber , from which he re- turns with a very gay countenance . He is not always , however , as I was informed , of so pleasant a disposition . He often plays at chess , particularly ...
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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.