The European Magazine, and London Review, Հատոր 51Philological Society of London, 1807 |
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... thing delights a conjectural critic more than what the moderns call a puttle . BEx , whose sterling sense and wit make us blush at seeing what we see , " was also equally keca and cor- rect . He we may well believe , intuitively caught ...
... thing delights a conjectural critic more than what the moderns call a puttle . BEx , whose sterling sense and wit make us blush at seeing what we see , " was also equally keca and cor- rect . He we may well believe , intuitively caught ...
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... thing but subjects for historical ballads . Berwick alone is stated to have cost at this time 10,000 marks an- nually . t In this account there is a disagreement betwixt the totals and the particular numbers in the record , but it is ...
... thing but subjects for historical ballads . Berwick alone is stated to have cost at this time 10,000 marks an- nually . t In this account there is a disagreement betwixt the totals and the particular numbers in the record , but it is ...
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... thing , from a commissa- ry's list " to a scriptural chapter , into verse , but whose attempts to make peace produced a great noise ; a secre tary , who was only like Erasmus in his name ; a duke *** but it is not ne- cessary to allude ...
... thing , from a commissa- ry's list " to a scriptural chapter , into verse , but whose attempts to make peace produced a great noise ; a secre tary , who was only like Erasmus in his name ; a duke *** but it is not ne- cessary to allude ...
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... thing about Cloth Bonnets , it is because I am first anxious to correct the other extremities of the fair sex . If they have taken their heads out of the straw , I have little to do with it , but as it regards our manufacture . An ...
... thing about Cloth Bonnets , it is because I am first anxious to correct the other extremities of the fair sex . If they have taken their heads out of the straw , I have little to do with it , but as it regards our manufacture . An ...
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... thing that could captivate the eye , delight the ear , or ' solace the fancy , was diligently sought after by the ministers of his pleasures , who spared neither labour nor expense in their endeavours to prevent the no- ments from ...
... thing that could captivate the eye , delight the ear , or ' solace the fancy , was diligently sought after by the ministers of his pleasures , who spared neither labour nor expense in their endeavours to prevent the no- ments from ...
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Էջ 36 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Էջ 371 - His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear, and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew ! And near him the...
Էջ 233 - God's sake, to save its life. The man, finding it required all his exertion to preserve himself, threw the infant from him, but it was fortunately caught at a distance by another man, who, finding it difficult to ensure its safety or his own, got rid of it in a similar way. The child was again caught by a...
Էջ 449 - Seasonable Hints from an honest man," as an exposition of lord Bath's sentiments. In November 1762, he was, through the interest of lord Bath, made canon of Windsor. In December of that year, on the day on which the preliminaries of peace were to be taken into consideration in parliament, he wrote a paper called " The Sentiments of a Frenchman...
Էջ 251 - Elizabeth, who, knowing him to be subject to the gout, would always make him sit in her presence ; which, it is probable, the lord treasurer considered a great indulgence from so haughty a lady, inasmuch as he one day apologized for the badness of his legs. To which the queen replied, " My lord, we make use of you not for the badness of your legs» but for the goodness of your head.
Էջ 346 - The beginning, the middle, and the end of every thing that is valuable in taste, is comprised in the knowledge of what is truly nature ; for whatever notions are not conformable to those of nature, or universal opinion, must be considered as more or less capricious.
Էջ 236 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Էջ 148 - He applied himself with great art and address in preparing the people for a general insurrection. The arms in the town were secreted, ready for the moment of action; the discontented assembled every night, and attended to his instructions; and he raised all the rabble of the country by the ample supplies of money with which he was furnished on the north side of the river. Colonel Liniers, a French officer in the Spanish service, and on his parole, successfully employed himself in collecting people...
Էջ 449 - He only resided occasionally, on his livings, and, at the desire of lord Bath, took a house in •a street contiguous to Bath House, where he passed the winter months.
Էջ 236 - The Court is of opinion, that the charges have been proved against the said Captain Sir Home Popham. That the withdrawing, without orders so to do, the whole of any naval force from the place where it is directed to be employed, and the employing it in distant operations against the enemy; more especially if the success of such operations should be likely to prevent its speedy return, may be attended with the most serious inconvenience to the public service, as the success of any plan...