The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... scenes , but even in a dungeon , can form scenes more beautiful than any in nature . This plenitude of meaning in a particular word , is not always so prominent as to be discernible by a common reader ; but wherever it really exists ...
... scenes , but even in a dungeon , can form scenes more beautiful than any in nature . This plenitude of meaning in a particular word , is not always so prominent as to be discernible by a common reader ; but wherever it really exists ...
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... scene constantly shifting , a field of battle , a tragic theatre ! and thus neither in it nor in man can he find felicity , but must seek it in another place and among other beings . Then turning to Marcus Varro and myself , with a ...
... scene constantly shifting , a field of battle , a tragic theatre ! and thus neither in it nor in man can he find felicity , but must seek it in another place and among other beings . Then turning to Marcus Varro and myself , with a ...
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... scenes of the two Henrys , and surpassing in interest even Hotspur and the Prince of Wales , Falstaff was again in- the troduced upon stage . He still appeared the boasting Bobadil , the hoary profligate , and the unfeeling sensualist ...
... scenes of the two Henrys , and surpassing in interest even Hotspur and the Prince of Wales , Falstaff was again in- the troduced upon stage . He still appeared the boasting Bobadil , the hoary profligate , and the unfeeling sensualist ...
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... scenes of this great drama ? There is no soul among us so sordid and grovelling that has not an active ... scene cannot be so remote but we have an eye to it ; and Napoleon the emperor , and Charles the archduke are people ...
... scenes of this great drama ? There is no soul among us so sordid and grovelling that has not an active ... scene cannot be so remote but we have an eye to it ; and Napoleon the emperor , and Charles the archduke are people ...
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... scene . when the powerful rays of the sun were scarcely a human being was to be seen . which surrounded huge heaps of ashes and rubbish , too plainly pointed out the ravages of a destructive element , and produced in the mind of the ...
... scene . when the powerful rays of the sun were scarcely a human being was to be seen . which surrounded huge heaps of ashes and rubbish , too plainly pointed out the ravages of a destructive element , and produced in the mind of the ...
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