The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1819 |
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Strana 142
... o'er , And age shall give the tresses hoar , I'd fly soft luxury's marble dome , And make an humble thatch my home , Which sloping hills around inclose , Where many a beach and brown oak grows ; Beneath whose dark and branching bow'rs ...
... o'er , And age shall give the tresses hoar , I'd fly soft luxury's marble dome , And make an humble thatch my home , Which sloping hills around inclose , Where many a beach and brown oak grows ; Beneath whose dark and branching bow'rs ...
Strana 145
... o'er the whiteness Of these her funeral sheets ; and gorgeous feathers , With which , few hours before , her child was playing , And lisping all the while his brother's name , Form'd a sad contrast with the pale , pale face Lying so ...
... o'er the whiteness Of these her funeral sheets ; and gorgeous feathers , With which , few hours before , her child was playing , And lisping all the while his brother's name , Form'd a sad contrast with the pale , pale face Lying so ...
Strana 172
... o'er the conch of friendship dear , Affliction sheds the tear of grief , And hopeless love invites despair . There is an hour when music's thrill Stirs the life - blood that warms the soul ; When passion's throbbing puise is still , And ...
... o'er the conch of friendship dear , Affliction sheds the tear of grief , And hopeless love invites despair . There is an hour when music's thrill Stirs the life - blood that warms the soul ; When passion's throbbing puise is still , And ...
Strana 173
... o'er ; She saw reviv'd her brother's frame , She clasp'd him on his native shore . The changeful fates for mortals weave , A mingled web of joy and sorrow ; The gentle heart to - day may grieve , But throbs with richer bliss to - morrow ...
... o'er ; She saw reviv'd her brother's frame , She clasp'd him on his native shore . The changeful fates for mortals weave , A mingled web of joy and sorrow ; The gentle heart to - day may grieve , But throbs with richer bliss to - morrow ...
Strana 248
... O'er their fall , each director in secret must sigh , For ' tis interest to love them , but shame to defend . Unpriz'd are their notes , or at ten per cent selling , Unhonour'd at home , unredeem'd on demand : But still they've a merit ...
... O'er their fall , each director in secret must sigh , For ' tis interest to love them , but shame to defend . Unpriz'd are their notes , or at ten per cent selling , Unhonour'd at home , unredeem'd on demand : But still they've a merit ...
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Strana 266 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Strana 23 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Strana 245 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and po'verty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Strana 153 - And opened on a narrow green, Where weeping birch and willow round With their long fibres swept the ground; Here, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower.
Strana 326 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Strana 269 - The Congress shall have Power 1 To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States...
Strana 141 - In short, every summer one lives in a state of mutiny and murmur, and I have found the reason: it is because we will affect to have a summer, and we have no title to any such thing. Our poets learnt their trade of the Romans, and so adopted the terms of their masters. They talk of shady groves, purling streams, and cooling breezes, and we get sore throats and agues with attempting to realize these visions.
Strana 269 - To borrow Money on the credit of the United States ; 3 To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes...
Strana 316 - ... sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts tomorrow.
Strana 302 - And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best; whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once...