The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 4
... scarcely give the sense of the author : for the import plainly is , that a lively imagination , not merely absent from beautiful scenes , but even in a dungeon , can form scenes more beautiful than any in nature . This plenitude of ...
... scarcely give the sense of the author : for the import plainly is , that a lively imagination , not merely absent from beautiful scenes , but even in a dungeon , can form scenes more beautiful than any in nature . This plenitude of ...
Page 11
... 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 energy of truth . The last in long and floating vestments ...
... 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 energy of truth . The last in long and floating vestments ...
Page 15
... scarcely an historian who is faithful in his narration , who pays not more regard to his reputation than to veracity , who consults not public opinion rather than facts . And if some events are related as they occurred , yet inferences ...
... scarcely an historian who is faithful in his narration , who pays not more regard to his reputation than to veracity , who consults not public opinion rather than facts . And if some events are related as they occurred , yet inferences ...
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... Scarcely had Ovid finished his speech , when Scaliger , taking the gag from his mouth , refuted the charges with so much pride , and trea- ted the poets so contemptuously , that , irritated beyond measure at be- ing thus publicly ...
... Scarcely had Ovid finished his speech , when Scaliger , taking the gag from his mouth , refuted the charges with so much pride , and trea- ted the poets so contemptuously , that , irritated beyond measure at be- ing thus publicly ...
Page 25
... scarcely an erasure in three months . Why then may not a comedy of little comparative length , reflection , or research , have been the fruit of a much shorter period of labour , when it came from an author preeminent for the magical ...
... scarcely an erasure in three months . Why then may not a comedy of little comparative length , reflection , or research , have been the fruit of a much shorter period of labour , when it came from an author preeminent for the magical ...
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