The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 11
By his side , wrapped in a mantle of fur , which can scarcely keep him warm , walks Paul Jovius , adulator of the Marquis of Basto , of the Medicis , and declared enemy of the Spaniards , faults which leave his works devoid of the ...
By his side , wrapped in a mantle of fur , which can scarcely keep him warm , walks Paul Jovius , adulator of the Marquis of Basto , of the Medicis , and declared enemy of the Spaniards , faults which leave his works devoid of the ...
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... the elements , and creatures rational and irrational , even the rudest and most insensible ; and in excuse of their own vices , leaving neither sea , river , forest , isle , nor mountain , in which , under various transformations ...
... the elements , and creatures rational and irrational , even the rudest and most insensible ; and in excuse of their own vices , leaving neither sea , river , forest , isle , nor mountain , in which , under various transformations ...
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Leaving these philosophers , we turned a corner , and saw flying from a house to escape the rage of her father , Sappho with her robe loose and her hair dishevelled . He complained that his daughter , employing herself in writing verses ...
Leaving these philosophers , we turned a corner , and saw flying from a house to escape the rage of her father , Sappho with her robe loose and her hair dishevelled . He complained that his daughter , employing herself in writing verses ...
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... thus carefully collated , into a whole , which leaves but little to censure , or to improve . We know not , really , so complete has been his success , of any very memorable specimen of rhetoric , coincident with the design of this ...
... thus carefully collated , into a whole , which leaves but little to censure , or to improve . We know not , really , so complete has been his success , of any very memorable specimen of rhetoric , coincident with the design of this ...
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... hiding mine honour in my necessity , am fain to shuffle , to my honour precise . I , I , I myself sometimes leaving the fear of heaven on hedge , and to lurch , " & c . " A newspaper , considered as one among a merchant's THE DRAMA .
... hiding mine honour in my necessity , am fain to shuffle , to my honour precise . I , I , I myself sometimes leaving the fear of heaven on hedge , and to lurch , " & c . " A newspaper , considered as one among a merchant's THE DRAMA .
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