The Port Folio, Volume 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
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Pagina 8
... taken place half a century past , when my youthful mind first became enamoured with the beauties of the fine arts , it would have at once enriched my fancy , and matured my judgment at that period of life , when the imagination requires ...
... taken place half a century past , when my youthful mind first became enamoured with the beauties of the fine arts , it would have at once enriched my fancy , and matured my judgment at that period of life , when the imagination requires ...
Pagina 9
... taken root ; but that there were great exertions making by the artists to prepare the soil , and sow the seeds . It was those artists who invited me to appear among them , with a few essays of my historical compositions in their annual ...
... taken root ; but that there were great exertions making by the artists to prepare the soil , and sow the seeds . It was those artists who invited me to appear among them , with a few essays of my historical compositions in their annual ...
Pagina 16
... taken from com- mon life , and which , without being as gay as comedy , or as distressing as tragedy , may be said to partake of the nature of both . In enume- rating the writers of French comedy I have said nothing 16 TRAVELS IN FRANCE .
... taken from com- mon life , and which , without being as gay as comedy , or as distressing as tragedy , may be said to partake of the nature of both . In enume- rating the writers of French comedy I have said nothing 16 TRAVELS IN FRANCE .
Pagina 18
... taken with those religious establishments which were once deemed so sacred . The Visitandines , for instance , in which a young man gets admittance into a convent under the disguise of a nun , follow- ed by a wicked dog of a valet de ...
... taken with those religious establishments which were once deemed so sacred . The Visitandines , for instance , in which a young man gets admittance into a convent under the disguise of a nun , follow- ed by a wicked dog of a valet de ...
Pagina 22
... taken from some old romance , or the Arabian 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 ...
... taken from some old romance , or the Arabian 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 ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 390 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy...
Pagina 388 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Pagina 193 - Of all their regions; powers which only the control of Omnipotence restrains from laying creation waste, and filling the vast expanse of space with ruin and confusion. To display the motives and actions of beings thus superior, so far as human reason can examine them, or human imagination represent them, is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed.
Pagina 341 - 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.
Pagina 388 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And...
Pagina 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...