The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 51
... given as follows : A thick flat wilderness of pines , through which the narrow road , skirt- ed with myrtles * and gull - berry bushes , † winds through immense dreary solitudes , with sometimes only one or two huts in a whole day's ...
... given as follows : A thick flat wilderness of pines , through which the narrow road , skirt- ed with myrtles * and gull - berry bushes , † winds through immense dreary solitudes , with sometimes only one or two huts in a whole day's ...
Page 58
... given grace and melody to sore of the Latin and Greek measures , and Mr. Bowles has written rhyming heroics , wherein the sense is transmitted from couplet to couplet , and the pauses are varied with all the freedom of blank verse ...
... given grace and melody to sore of the Latin and Greek measures , and Mr. Bowles has written rhyming heroics , wherein the sense is transmitted from couplet to couplet , and the pauses are varied with all the freedom of blank verse ...
Page 69
... given us a picture , and it is the finest ever exhi- bited since the nativity of genius . I can find nothing in Virgil or Homer equal to it : Creusa and Andromache are viewed with indifference by the side of the wife of Segestes ...
... given us a picture , and it is the finest ever exhi- bited since the nativity of genius . I can find nothing in Virgil or Homer equal to it : Creusa and Andromache are viewed with indifference by the side of the wife of Segestes ...
Page 74
... given him , on the quarter day , With looks that call it - money thrown away . Just Heav'n ! who knows the unremitting care And deep solicitude that teachers share , If such their fate , by thy divine control , O give them health and ...
... given him , on the quarter day , With looks that call it - money thrown away . Just Heav'n ! who knows the unremitting care And deep solicitude that teachers share , If such their fate , by thy divine control , O give them health and ...
Page 89
... given of your skill in the important arts of Reading and Public Speaking , as applied to the several species of Fo- rensic , Dramatic , Narrative , Descriptive , and Didactic Eloquence , as well in Poetry as Prose , incontestibly evince ...
... given of your skill in the important arts of Reading and Public Speaking , as applied to the several species of Fo- rensic , Dramatic , Narrative , Descriptive , and Didactic Eloquence , as well in Poetry as Prose , incontestibly evince ...
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