The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... labours ! Labours more ? And is there in creation what , amidst This tumult universal , wing'd Despatch , And ardent Energy , supinely yawns ? Man sleeps ; and man alone ; and man , whose fate , Fate irreversible , entire , extreme ...
... labours ! Labours more ? And is there in creation what , amidst This tumult universal , wing'd Despatch , And ardent Energy , supinely yawns ? Man sleeps ; and man alone ; and man , whose fate , Fate irreversible , entire , extreme ...
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... Labour , father of the other arts , and says she descended from heaven ; she boasts that the Scythians , the Cretans , and the Spaniards , wrote their first laws in verse , and that in verse the Goths recorded their actions . It is a ...
... Labour , father of the other arts , and says she descended from heaven ; she boasts that the Scythians , the Cretans , and the Spaniards , wrote their first laws in verse , and that in verse the Goths recorded their actions . It is a ...
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... labour is necessary , as the precious metals are found combined with such quantities of vile matter , that if they were not purified and formed by the fire and the hammer , they would re- main forever concealed ; thus it requires much ...
... labour is necessary , as the precious metals are found combined with such quantities of vile matter , that if they were not purified and formed by the fire and the hammer , they would re- main forever concealed ; thus it requires much ...
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... labour , when it came from an author preeminent for the magical rapidity with which the execu- tion always followed his design . The play too bears with it those cha- racteristicks of genuine humour which never could have been produ ...
... labour , when it came from an author preeminent for the magical rapidity with which the execu- tion always followed his design . The play too bears with it those cha- racteristicks of genuine humour which never could have been produ ...
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... labour . Surely , then , they must be a very learned nation . All their minds must be tuned to a generous and enlightened key . Society must wear among them , a face totally different from that of any other nation ; -and is not this the ...
... labour . Surely , then , they must be a very learned nation . All their minds must be tuned to a generous and enlightened key . Society must wear among them , a face totally different from that of any other nation ; -and is not this the ...
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