The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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seems opposed to some common or general meaning : for the young hero does not say , in the common and unemphatic sense of the word think , that he is tortured even to madness when he thinks of Caesar ; but in the strong and emphatic ...
seems opposed to some common or general meaning : for the young hero does not say , in the common and unemphatic sense of the word think , that he is tortured even to madness when he thinks of Caesar ; but in the strong and emphatic ...
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Multiplied emphasis and emotion , are exemplified in this passage from Dr. Young's Night Thoughts : Each night we die , Each morn are born anew : each day a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills , Sure vice must butcher ...
Multiplied emphasis and emotion , are exemplified in this passage from Dr. Young's Night Thoughts : Each night we die , Each morn are born anew : each day a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills , Sure vice must butcher ...
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... and as some stain their hair to look young , he discolours his to appear old . Being informed of the character of these historians , we passed on , and saw seated beneath a group of trees the seven sages , so celebrated in Greece .
... and as some stain their hair to look young , he discolours his to appear old . Being informed of the character of these historians , we passed on , and saw seated beneath a group of trees the seven sages , so celebrated in Greece .
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Ask me no reason why I love you ; for though Love use Reason for his physician , he admits him not for his counsellor : you are not young , no more am I go to then , there's sympathy ; you are merry , so am I ; ha ! ha ! then there's ...
Ask me no reason why I love you ; for though Love use Reason for his physician , he admits him not for his counsellor : you are not young , no more am I go to then , there's sympathy ; you are merry , so am I ; ha ! ha ! then there's ...
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senses , and from the earliest period of our lives ; the progress is so gradual as to be insensible to ourselves , and if at the age of fourteen a young person in the full , though as yet unexercised , possession of his faculties ...
senses , and from the earliest period of our lives ; the progress is so gradual as to be insensible to ourselves , and if at the age of fourteen a young person in the full , though as yet unexercised , possession of his faculties ...
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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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