The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 Seiten |
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... GUMMAGE , " said Mrs. Atmore , as she entered a certain drawing school , at that time the most fashionable in ... Gummage , who knew very well that he never had the smallest idea of limiting the num- ber of his pupils , and that if ...
... GUMMAGE , " said Mrs. Atmore , as she entered a certain drawing school , at that time the most fashionable in ... Gummage , who knew very well that he never had the smallest idea of limiting the num- ber of his pupils , and that if ...
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... Gummage was no gentleman , either in appearance or manner . But he passed for a genius among those who knew nothing ... Gummage was nothing more - lay in doing almost every thing himself , and producing for his pupils , in their first ...
... Gummage was no gentleman , either in appearance or manner . But he passed for a genius among those who knew nothing ... Gummage was nothing more - lay in doing almost every thing himself , and producing for his pupils , in their first ...
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... Gummage ? There is a tomb with a weeping willow , and two ladies with long hair , one drest in pink the other in blue , holding a wreath between them over the top of the urn . The ladies are Friendship . Then on the right hand of the ...
... Gummage ? There is a tomb with a weeping willow , and two ladies with long hair , one drest in pink the other in blue , holding a wreath between them over the top of the urn . The ladies are Friendship . Then on the right hand of the ...
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... Gummage ; " it will take her two quarters hard work , and may - be three , to get through the whole of them . " " Well , I won't stand about a quarter more or less , " said Mrs. Atmore : " but what I wish Marianne to do most ...
... Gummage ; " it will take her two quarters hard work , and may - be three , to get through the whole of them . " " Well , I won't stand about a quarter more or less , " said Mrs. Atmore : " but what I wish Marianne to do most ...
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... Gummage was so much in fashion that no other drawing - masters , not even Beck and Smith , had the least chance of success . Those who recollect the ori- ginal , will not think his portrait overcharged . We left Mr. Gummage going round ...
... Gummage was so much in fashion that no other drawing - masters , not even Beck and Smith , had the least chance of success . Those who recollect the ori- ginal , will not think his portrait overcharged . We left Mr. Gummage going round ...
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Seite 319 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Seite 321 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Seite 284 - ... government seems to me a part of religion itself, a thing sacred in its institution and end...
Seite 81 - Fresh pleasure only : for the attentive mind, By this harmonious action on her powers, Becomes herself harmonious : wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight : her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Seite 29 - Jack and Gill went up the hill To draw a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after.
Seite 193 - ... upon one, the hall of which was open, and the windows lifted. After knocking for some time, a young girl appeared, with many marks of distress. In answer to my question, she answered that both her parents were sick, and that they could receive no one. I inquired, in vain, for any other tavern at which strangers might be accommodated. She knew of none such; and left me, on some one's calling to her from above, in the midst of my embarrassment. After a moment's pause, I returned, discomforted and...
Seite 208 - The worms from the webs, where they riot and welter: His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is — in summer a shelter. The plowman is pleased when he gleans in his train.
Seite 2 - Harvard College Library FROM THE BEQUEST OF SAMUEL SHAPLEIGH CLASS OF 1789 LIBRARIAN OF HARVARD COLLEGE 1793-1800 4 >4 4 ^ >4.
Seite 80 - By kind illusions of the wondering sense Thou mak'st all Nature beauty to his eye, Or music to his ear...
Seite 207 - He flits through the orchard, he visits each tree, The red flowering peach, and the apple's sweet blossoms ; He snaps up destroyers wherever they be, And seizes the caitiffs that lurk in their bosoms ; He drags the vile grub from the corn it devours, The worms from their beds where they riot and welter ; His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is, in summer a shelter.