The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 120
... beautiful white shining kind of silk . The seeds are winged , a form which nature has given with great variety to many others , in order that they may conveyed with more ease , and to a greater distance , by the wind . The silk , which ...
... beautiful white shining kind of silk . The seeds are winged , a form which nature has given with great variety to many others , in order that they may conveyed with more ease , and to a greater distance , by the wind . The silk , which ...
Page 128
... beautiful or new Sublime , or dreadful in earth , sea , or sky , By chance or search was offer'd to his view He scanned with curious and romantic eye . » Ón our return , speaking of Mareschal College and of his duties there as the ...
... beautiful or new Sublime , or dreadful in earth , sea , or sky , By chance or search was offer'd to his view He scanned with curious and romantic eye . » Ón our return , speaking of Mareschal College and of his duties there as the ...
Page 140
... beautiful bride exercises over a doting husband he will incontinently prefer the couch to the camp ; and instead of mounting fiery barbs To fright the souls of fearful adversaries , He capers nimbly in his lady's chamber , To the ...
... beautiful bride exercises over a doting husband he will incontinently prefer the couch to the camp ; and instead of mounting fiery barbs To fright the souls of fearful adversaries , He capers nimbly in his lady's chamber , To the ...
Page 151
... beautiful variegation of black and violet , tinged with a beautiful gloss . I have marked this bird as very singularly dependent on others of a less and harmless kind for the raising of their young . Yes , sir , my search and inquiries ...
... beautiful variegation of black and violet , tinged with a beautiful gloss . I have marked this bird as very singularly dependent on others of a less and harmless kind for the raising of their young . Yes , sir , my search and inquiries ...
Page 154
... Beautiful as the greater part of this volume is , the public taste , we are afraid , has of late been too much accustomed to beauties of a more obtrusive and glaring kind , to be fully sensible of its merit . Without supposing that this ...
... Beautiful as the greater part of this volume is , the public taste , we are afraid , has of late been too much accustomed to beauties of a more obtrusive and glaring kind , to be fully sensible of its merit . Without supposing that this ...
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