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... gentleman of cultivated taste and great attainments , who was present on the occasion , frankly acknowledged , that it surpassed , in effect , any thing he had ever heard in the British parliament . He even preferred it to Sheridan's ...
... gentleman of cultivated taste and great attainments , who was present on the occasion , frankly acknowledged , that it surpassed , in effect , any thing he had ever heard in the British parliament . He even preferred it to Sheridan's ...
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... gentleman standing as he does , the god - father , as it were , of these volumes , we could plead no such apology , and therefore still think that Rousseau's odes to the count de Luc , to prince Eugene , the duke of Vendome , and ...
... gentleman standing as he does , the god - father , as it were , of these volumes , we could plead no such apology , and therefore still think that Rousseau's odes to the count de Luc , to prince Eugene , the duke of Vendome , and ...
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... gentleman , to whom the letter from which it was taken , is addressed , was the father of Mr. Wilkes of Newyork , who communicated it to the editor , for the present edition . It would be well if every medical man wrote so neat and ...
... gentleman , to whom the letter from which it was taken , is addressed , was the father of Mr. Wilkes of Newyork , who communicated it to the editor , for the present edition . It would be well if every medical man wrote so neat and ...
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... gentlemen in town , nay even the governor himself , are at the bottom of it . " The assembly have since sat , and made a strict inquiry into this affair , but have gained very little satisfaction . They have summoned Mr. Allen , Mr ...
... gentlemen in town , nay even the governor himself , are at the bottom of it . " The assembly have since sat , and made a strict inquiry into this affair , but have gained very little satisfaction . They have summoned Mr. Allen , Mr ...
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... gentleman so escorted ! Assemblymen , sheriffs , militiamen , associates , tag rag and bob - tail , lined the way from the widow Amos's * to the city . All more out of pique to our former , † than compliment to our present governor ...
... gentleman so escorted ! Assemblymen , sheriffs , militiamen , associates , tag rag and bob - tail , lined the way from the widow Amos's * to the city . All more out of pique to our former , † than compliment to our present governor ...
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Page 57 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 195 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied...
Page 60 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 191 - Adieu, adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight ; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land — Good night...
Page 193 - For who would trust the seeming sighs Of wife or paramour ? Fresh feeres will dry the bright blue eyes We late saw streaming o'er. For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near ; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear.
Page 193 - With thee, my bark, I'll swiftly go Athwart the foaming brine ; Nor care what land thou bear'st me to, So not again to mine.
Page 174 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 69 - The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye; While England lives, his fame can never die: But he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for half an age; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, and artist, share one common grave.
Page 474 - And the swallow's song in the eaves. His arms enclosed a blooming boy, Who listened, with tears of sorrow and joy, To the dangers his father had passed ; And his wife — by turns she wept and smiled, As she looked on the father of her child, Returned to her heart at last. — He wakes at the vessel's sudden roll, And the rush of waters is in his soul.