Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years: With Occasional Remarks Upon the General Occurrences, Character and Spirit of that Eventful PeriodJohn Wyeth, 1811 - 378 стор. |
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... doubt of his 26 sincerity and kindness . " Such is my father's sketch of Philadelphia manners eighty years ago . From the same letter it appears , that at the instance of this Mr. Baynton , he had contemplated with him a partnership in ...
... doubt of his 26 sincerity and kindness . " Such is my father's sketch of Philadelphia manners eighty years ago . From the same letter it appears , that at the instance of this Mr. Baynton , he had contemplated with him a partnership in ...
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... doubt did believe it : It was also incumbent on him to be alert ; to inculcate that duty upon his men . and to inure them to alarms : and although more silence , and less parade , might have been more truly military , yet something of ...
... doubt did believe it : It was also incumbent on him to be alert ; to inculcate that duty upon his men . and to inure them to alarms : and although more silence , and less parade , might have been more truly military , yet something of ...
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... doubt , overrated their merit ; and hence , my declaiming powers were in a state of such constant requisition , that my orations , like worn out ditties , became vapid and fatiguing to me ; and con- sequently , impaired my relish for ...
... doubt , overrated their merit ; and hence , my declaiming powers were in a state of such constant requisition , that my orations , like worn out ditties , became vapid and fatiguing to me ; and con- sequently , impaired my relish for ...
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... doubt in the fami- ly , whether my genius most inclined me to the pro- fession of a limner or a general . Music too , was an art for which I had discovered a propensity , and had already the enthusiasm of an amateur . From the drums and ...
... doubt in the fami- ly , whether my genius most inclined me to the pro- fession of a limner or a general . Music too , was an art for which I had discovered a propensity , and had already the enthusiasm of an amateur . From the drums and ...
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... doubt their possessing much of the soul of poetry . One of them is neither more nor less than a humble petition in hexamaters , and certainly a very curious specimen of pedantic mendicity . It is addressed to Thomas Penn , the ...
... doubt their possessing much of the soul of poetry . One of them is neither more nor less than a humble petition in hexamaters , and certainly a very curious specimen of pedantic mendicity . It is addressed to Thomas Penn , the ...
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Сторінка 305 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Сторінка 21 - I'm drest all in my best To walk abroad with Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
Сторінка 362 - Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father...
Сторінка 86 - Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until your morals shall happily be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which the worst examples cease to be contagious.
Сторінка 109 - They made a halt, while the Doctor, foaming with rage and indignation, without his hat, his wig dishevelled and bloody from his wounded hand, stood up in the cart and called for a bowl of punch.
Сторінка 27 - Where sordid interest shows the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason far his transports rove ; And Boileau, for eight hundred pieces, Makes Louis take the wall of Jove.
Сторінка 333 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
Сторінка 84 - I have been wronged enough to arm my temper Against the smooth delusion; but alas ! (Chide not my weakness, gentle maid, but pity me) A woman's softness hangs about me still : Then let me blush, and tell thee all my folly. I...
Сторінка 303 - Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other : And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise...