The Rhode-Island Literary Repository, Volume 1Isaac Bailey Robinson and Howland, 1814 |
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Pagina 5
... possessed the confidence of his superiors , and how great reliance was reposed on his coolness and intrepidity , let it be observed , that when Rodgers , contemplating an attack on Tripoli , wished to take the soundings of the harbour ...
... possessed the confidence of his superiors , and how great reliance was reposed on his coolness and intrepidity , let it be observed , that when Rodgers , contemplating an attack on Tripoli , wished to take the soundings of the harbour ...
Pagina 18
... possessed his mind for some time previous to his last cruise . Just before sailing , he writes to his sister : " When you shall hear that I have ended my earthly career , that I only exist in the kind remembrance of my friends , you ...
... possessed his mind for some time previous to his last cruise . Just before sailing , he writes to his sister : " When you shall hear that I have ended my earthly career , that I only exist in the kind remembrance of my friends , you ...
Pagina 21
... possessed vigour and perseverance paramount to the difficulties of the way . A little way up the mountain , I observed certain persons who appeared to have re- signed every idea of farther progress , and were employing them- selves in ...
... possessed vigour and perseverance paramount to the difficulties of the way . A little way up the mountain , I observed certain persons who appeared to have re- signed every idea of farther progress , and were employing them- selves in ...
Pagina 31
... possessing at once both the rapid energy and the imperishable nature of spirit . It shall there be invested with new powers , and be fitted with new organs adapted to its celestial state ; and having attained its highest perfection ...
... possessing at once both the rapid energy and the imperishable nature of spirit . It shall there be invested with new powers , and be fitted with new organs adapted to its celestial state ; and having attained its highest perfection ...
Pagina 85
... possessed herself of the papers , at- tended at the Navy Pay Office , and received the money . Still we have not traced the allusion to its source : If we have explained the causes which have fortified , or appeared to prove the truth ...
... possessed herself of the papers , at- tended at the Navy Pay Office , and received the money . Still we have not traced the allusion to its source : If we have explained the causes which have fortified , or appeared to prove the truth ...
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admiration Æneas ancient appear Arminian attention beauty BENJAMIN WEST called Carthage cause Champe character charms Checkley christian church command considered death Dido divine Doctor Morse dulce domum earth effect endeavour excited fame fancy feel genius Giaour give glory Hannah Adams heart heaven honour hope human interest Jedediah Morse John Calvin justice Klopstock labour lady learned letter LITERARY REPOSITORY Lord Lord Byron Madame de Stael mankind ment mind Miss Adams moral motives nature never o'er object observed opinion original passions perhaps person Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetical poetry possessed present principles publick Pygmalion readers reason received religion respect Rhode-Island ship song soul spirit sublime superiour talents taste tears thee thing thou thought tion truth virtue whole WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN wish youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 52 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Pagina 114 - Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; But, Oh ! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary...
Pagina 114 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu...
Pagina 120 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Pagina 196 - Yet in the whole — who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men — They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.
Pagina 137 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Pagina 223 - ... when dead. If, however, we consider even the prejudiced anecdotes furnished us by his enemies, we may perceive in them traces of amiable and lofty character sufficient to awaken sympathy for his fate, and respect for his memory. We find that, amidst all the harassing cares and ferocious passions of constant warfare, he was alive to the softer feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness, and to the generous sentiment of friendship. The captivity of his "beloved wife and only son...
Pagina 393 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Pagina 254 - Who bow'd so low the knee ? By gazing on thyself grown blind, Thou taught'st the rest to see. With might unquestion'd, • — power to save, Thine only gift hath been the grave, To those that worshipp'd thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness!
Pagina 256 - All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!