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... night in Paris , that the actors can only live by drawing full houses , and that they must some way or other gratify the taste of the audience , who , like the tired glutton whom Pope describes as labouring through a feast , tries all ...
... night in Paris , that the actors can only live by drawing full houses , and that they must some way or other gratify the taste of the audience , who , like the tired glutton whom Pope describes as labouring through a feast , tries all ...
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... Nights Enter- tainments , or the heathen mythology , and the music , for which a cer- tain number of lines of certain length have been ordered , condescends , as little as possible , to borrow aid from sense . The wonders which we read ...
... Nights Enter- tainments , or the heathen mythology , and the music , for which a cer- tain number of lines of certain length have been ordered , condescends , as little as possible , to borrow aid from sense . The wonders which we read ...
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... nights there had been a massacre in the north suburb , cal- led Carénage . I took some pains to inquire into the nature of this ru- mour , and found it , unhappily , to be too true . Guards were stationed in that neighbourhood , and no ...
... nights there had been a massacre in the north suburb , cal- led Carénage . I took some pains to inquire into the nature of this ru- mour , and found it , unhappily , to be too true . Guards were stationed in that neighbourhood , and no ...
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... night , while some of us were in bed , one of the sailors entered the cabin , and informed us that there was a boat full of armed men along side , who were coming on board . He had scarcely spoken when we were surprised by the entrance ...
... night , while some of us were in bed , one of the sailors entered the cabin , and informed us that there was a boat full of armed men along side , who were coming on board . He had scarcely spoken when we were surprised by the entrance ...
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... night there was a severe storm , accompanied by a most violent rain , but still she was compelled to remain in that situation all night . In the morning , the commandant happening to pass that way in his boat , ordered her to be set at ...
... night there was a severe storm , accompanied by a most violent rain , but still she was compelled to remain in that situation all night . In the morning , the commandant happening to pass that way in his boat , ordered her to be set at ...
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admiration Amelia American amusements appear attention beautiful BENJAMIN WEST body bridge called chain character charcoal command countenance countess of Shaftesbury death degree Dessalines doctor Johnson dress EDWARD PREBLE Edward Shippen effect elegant emperor England English excited expression eyes favour feel feet fortune France French frequently friends genius gentleman give guineas hand heart honour human hundred Junius ladies language letter Limnades live lord Louis XIV manner means ment miles mind motion Nantes nation nature never New-York night o'er observed occasion officers Paine passed passions perhaps person pleasure Port au Prince PORT FOLIO present reader received respect revolution river scene sentiments side soldiers soon soul Spain speak spirit supposed Tangier taste thing thou thought tion tones town Tripoli vessel virtue voice Voltaire whole
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Seite 203 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Seite 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
Seite 204 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Seite 201 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter ; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out. and wept bitterly.
Seite 396 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 204 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Seite 340 - O'er many a distant foreign land ; Each place, each province I have tried, And sung and danced my saraband : But all their charms could not prevail To steal my heart from yonder vale.
Seite 206 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Seite 489 - Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender, lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria. Ha! it sinks, it falls; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. 'Tislife! 'tis warm! 'tis she! 'tis she herself ! Nor dead nor shade, but breathing and alive!
Seite 155 - It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking of. The faculty must in some degree be born with us; and it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has assured me, that the greatest pleasure he took in reading Virgil was in examining /Eneas's voyage by the map...