The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 30
... muses , to the fine arts , and to his country . THE island of Nantucket has been called , " a sand bank , " till its sterility has become proverbial , and no other idea of its na- ked plains is entertained upon the neighboring continent ...
... muses , to the fine arts , and to his country . THE island of Nantucket has been called , " a sand bank , " till its sterility has become proverbial , and no other idea of its na- ked plains is entertained upon the neighboring continent ...
Page 43
... muse . It is moreover , as my friends , the lawyers , would express it , my bounden duty to introduce to my country- men every illustrious stranger , whenever I have the glorious op- portunity of being the gentleman usher on such an ...
... muse . It is moreover , as my friends , the lawyers , would express it , my bounden duty to introduce to my country- men every illustrious stranger , whenever I have the glorious op- portunity of being the gentleman usher on such an ...
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... muse for former feats , Does penance now in quarto sheets , Or , clothing parcels , roams the streets , My Godwin . Thy flame at Luna's lamp thou light'st , Blank is the verse that thou indit'st , Thy play is damn'd , yet still thou ...
... muse for former feats , Does penance now in quarto sheets , Or , clothing parcels , roams the streets , My Godwin . Thy flame at Luna's lamp thou light'st , Blank is the verse that thou indit'st , Thy play is damn'd , yet still thou ...
Page 87
... Muses , the Sciences and the Graces , all mystery and artifice should be disdained . Hence the editor chooses to appear before the bar of the public in his proper person ; and the high and anxious responsibility , which he now assumes ...
... Muses , the Sciences and the Graces , all mystery and artifice should be disdained . Hence the editor chooses to appear before the bar of the public in his proper person ; and the high and anxious responsibility , which he now assumes ...
Page 156
... muse , could not lift his imagination to the height of such transcendant agency . He could not conceive of workmanship destitute of labour ; or , to speak more perspicu- ously , that the word of the Deity should perform what he com ...
... muse , could not lift his imagination to the height of such transcendant agency . He could not conceive of workmanship destitute of labour ; or , to speak more perspicu- ously , that the word of the Deity should perform what he com ...
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