The Port Folio, Volumes 1-2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1806 |
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Page 6
... France : they too are no more ! and , for a long while past , whenever my pen happens to touch on one of those innumerable ruins by which we are surrounded , I bow myself in idea , and pay to their sad and venerable memo- ry that ...
... France : they too are no more ! and , for a long while past , whenever my pen happens to touch on one of those innumerable ruins by which we are surrounded , I bow myself in idea , and pay to their sad and venerable memo- ry that ...
Page 7
... France , between Corneille and Racine ; for genius , like all conquering powers , divides while it subjugates mankind . We shall not examine the titles of the two candidates , but only cite them as the two writers who have given to the ...
... France , between Corneille and Racine ; for genius , like all conquering powers , divides while it subjugates mankind . We shall not examine the titles of the two candidates , but only cite them as the two writers who have given to the ...
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... France at length obtained a name . The language now began to grow pure ; it acquired harmony in the prose of Balzac , and in the verse of Malherbe ; but Balzac , less occu- pied with things than with words , fell into neglect as soon as ...
... France at length obtained a name . The language now began to grow pure ; it acquired harmony in the prose of Balzac , and in the verse of Malherbe ; but Balzac , less occu- pied with things than with words , fell into neglect as soon as ...
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... France is lost ! For the Port Folio . A short Account of the Academy at Brahe- trolleburgh , in Denmark . The late Count Louis Reventlow , a nobleman , who , in the most emi- nent degree , contributed towards the amelioration of schools ...
... France is lost ! For the Port Folio . A short Account of the Academy at Brahe- trolleburgh , in Denmark . The late Count Louis Reventlow , a nobleman , who , in the most emi- nent degree , contributed towards the amelioration of schools ...
Page 18
... France , sensible of the many evils of heads , in- vented a summary mode of lopping off those excrescences . King , noble , and priest , have been visited by a malady , similar to that which vexed the Shunna- mite's son , and each has ...
... France , sensible of the many evils of heads , in- vented a summary mode of lopping off those excrescences . King , noble , and priest , have been visited by a malady , similar to that which vexed the Shunna- mite's son , and each has ...
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