The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 2Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1805 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... first lines of the five ' cantos . ' CANTO I. poem in Prince Polion paus'd , perceiving pound- ed peas Plac'd parallel , prefaging Punick peace . Plectra's perfuafive preaffumptive power , Prefenting pleafure , pure perceptions pour ...
... first lines of the five ' cantos . ' CANTO I. poem in Prince Polion paus'd , perceiving pound- ed peas Plac'd parallel , prefaging Punick peace . Plectra's perfuafive preaffumptive power , Prefenting pleafure , pure perceptions pour ...
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... first im- pulfe of motion . Now I prefume that Dr. H. here refers to the " fame principle , the fame uni- verfal caufe , which first gave mo- tion to matter . " Thefe words , taken by themselves , would feem to imply a reference to the ...
... first im- pulfe of motion . Now I prefume that Dr. H. here refers to the " fame principle , the fame uni- verfal caufe , which first gave mo- tion to matter . " Thefe words , taken by themselves , would feem to imply a reference to the ...
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... first read your address to the Bofton Reviewers , we conceived that you were ridiculing the talents of a most refpectable man , and we felt juft indignation at the fuppofed infidious attack . But on a fec- ond perufal we found reafon to ...
... first read your address to the Bofton Reviewers , we conceived that you were ridiculing the talents of a most refpectable man , and we felt juft indignation at the fuppofed infidious attack . But on a fec- ond perufal we found reafon to ...
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... first American edition , with notes and additions . A critical pronouncing dictionary and expofitor of the English language ; in which the meaning of every word is explained , the found of every fyllable diftinctly shown ; and where ...
... first American edition , with notes and additions . A critical pronouncing dictionary and expofitor of the English language ; in which the meaning of every word is explained , the found of every fyllable diftinctly shown ; and where ...
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... first give his rea- fon to the court , why in a cafe which he intended should be a leading cafe , for the repreffing of fo great a mischief in the common - wealth , and concerning an offence which raigneth chiefly a- mongst perfons of ...
... first give his rea- fon to the court , why in a cafe which he intended should be a leading cafe , for the repreffing of fo great a mischief in the common - wealth , and concerning an offence which raigneth chiefly a- mongst perfons of ...
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Page 636 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost : Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.
Page 492 - It is to be all made of fantasy ; All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance ; And so am I for Phebe.
Page 578 - As it leaves Anacreon's lip; Void of care, and free from dread, From his fingers snatch his bread, Then with luscious plenty gay...
Page 381 - I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.
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Page 230 - Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit,) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it...
Page 431 - There is a sensible pleasure in contemplating such beautiful instances of domestic life. The happiness of the conjugal state appears heightened to the highest degree it is capable of, when we see two persons of accomplished minds not only united in the same interests and affections, but in their taste of the same improvements, pleasures, and diversions.
Page 378 - Yet conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learned world; nor is it my intention to depreciate a study, that has exercised so many mighty minds, from the revival of learning to our own age, from the bishop of Aleria to English Bentley.
Page 191 - In brief, acquit thee bravely ; play the man. Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. Defer not the least virtue : life's poor span Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains : If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
Page 438 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?