The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 páginas |
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... whole , I think the text , as I have adopted it , to be the better reading . Having ascertained the names and conditions of the parties , the reader becomes naturally inquisitive into their employment , and wishes to know whether their ...
... whole , I think the text , as I have adopted it , to be the better reading . Having ascertained the names and conditions of the parties , the reader becomes naturally inquisitive into their employment , and wishes to know whether their ...
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... whole labour . The only ob- jection to this opinion is an old adage , " Bonus dux bo- num facit militem , " which has been translated " A good Jack makes a good Gill , " thereby intimating a superiority in the former . If such was the ...
... whole labour . The only ob- jection to this opinion is an old adage , " Bonus dux bo- num facit militem , " which has been translated " A good Jack makes a good Gill , " thereby intimating a superiority in the former . If such was the ...
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... whole mis- fortune . Buoyed by hope , we suppose his affliction not quite remediless , that his fall is an accident to which the way - farers of this life are daily liable , and we anticipate his immediate rise to resume his labours ...
... whole mis- fortune . Buoyed by hope , we suppose his affliction not quite remediless , that his fall is an accident to which the way - farers of this life are daily liable , and we anticipate his immediate rise to resume his labours ...
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... whole compass of tragic description . Imagine to ourselves Jack rapidly descending , perhaps rolling over and over down the mountain , the bucket , as the lighter , moving along , and pouring forth ( if it had been filled ) its liquid ...
... whole compass of tragic description . Imagine to ourselves Jack rapidly descending , perhaps rolling over and over down the mountain , the bucket , as the lighter , moving along , and pouring forth ( if it had been filled ) its liquid ...
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... that was waiting near the place of action , into which he was put , the ghastliness of death on his countenance , and the whole party slowly drove away . ELEGY ON THOMAS GODFREY . BY NATHANIEL EVANS . O 52 THE PHILADELPHIA BOOK .
... that was waiting near the place of action , into which he was put , the ghastliness of death on his countenance , and the whole party slowly drove away . ELEGY ON THOMAS GODFREY . BY NATHANIEL EVANS . O 52 THE PHILADELPHIA BOOK .
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Página 319 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 321 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Página 284 - ... government seems to me a part of religion itself, a thing sacred in its institution and end...
Página 81 - Fresh pleasure only : for the attentive mind, By this harmonious action on her powers, Becomes herself harmonious : wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight : her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Página 29 - Jack and Gill went up the hill To draw a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after.
Página 193 - ... upon one, the hall of which was open, and the windows lifted. After knocking for some time, a young girl appeared, with many marks of distress. In answer to my question, she answered that both her parents were sick, and that they could receive no one. I inquired, in vain, for any other tavern at which strangers might be accommodated. She knew of none such; and left me, on some one's calling to her from above, in the midst of my embarrassment. After a moment's pause, I returned, discomforted and...
Página 208 - The worms from the webs, where they riot and welter: His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is — in summer a shelter. The plowman is pleased when he gleans in his train.
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Página 80 - By kind illusions of the wondering sense Thou mak'st all Nature beauty to his eye, Or music to his ear...
Página 207 - He flits through the orchard, he visits each tree, The red flowering peach, and the apple's sweet blossoms ; He snaps up destroyers wherever they be, And seizes the caitiffs that lurk in their bosoms ; He drags the vile grub from the corn it devours, The worms from their beds where they riot and welter ; His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is, in summer a shelter.