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Near him on the branch of a poplar tree , hung a paper , on which was painted a shell , the exterior rough and unpolished , but discovering within a pure and silvery bosom , and on the most delicate and pearly part this half verse of ...
Near him on the branch of a poplar tree , hung a paper , on which was painted a shell , the exterior rough and unpolished , but discovering within a pure and silvery bosom , and on the most delicate and pearly part this half verse of ...
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... she denies being the daughter of 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 ...
... she denies being the daughter of 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 ...
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He complained that his daughter , employing herself in writing verses , had forgot to sew and spin , and neglected the duties of her sex , in which women ought to seek their glory , instead of applying to studies which distract their ...
He complained that his daughter , employing herself in writing verses , had forgot to sew and spin , and neglected the duties of her sex , in which women ought to seek their glory , instead of applying to studies which distract their ...
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Spenser's stanza was new , but his verse was familiar to the ear , and though his rhymes were frequent even to satiety , he seems to have avoided the awkwardness of novelty , and the difficulty of unpracticed metres .
Spenser's stanza was new , but his verse was familiar to the ear , and though his rhymes were frequent even to satiety , he seems to have avoided the awkwardness of novelty , and the difficulty of unpracticed metres .
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peculiar features of this lyrical frame of verse , will be more candidly appre ciated , and its merits more unreservedly acknowledged . Whoever is conversant with the writings of this author , will have ob served and admired that ...
peculiar features of this lyrical frame of verse , will be more candidly appre ciated , and its merits more unreservedly acknowledged . Whoever is conversant with the writings of this author , will have ob served and admired that ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 2 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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