London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer..., Volume 3C. Ackers, 1784 |
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Page 12 - Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
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Page 444 - If now it be asked, what are the intended objects of our inquiries within these spacious limits, we answer, MAN and NATURE; whatever is performed by the one, or produced by the other.
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Page 52 - May never was the month of love For May is full of flowers, But rather April, wet by kind, For love is full of showers.
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Page 150 - Not the least vestige of these now remained. It is probable that they had been all rooted out to make room for buildings, when the village was re-inhabited; for, at all the other gardens then planted by Captain Furneaux, although now wholly overrun with the weeds of the country, we found cabbages, onions, leeks, purslane, radishes, mustard, &c., and a few potatoes.
Page 340 - Boylei for the honour he had done to them, and to his own judgment, by placing the family in fuch a light as to give a fpirit of emulation to thofe who were hereafter to inherit the title.
Page 343 - He was eminently verfed in the different parts of facred literature ; and his acquaintance with the languages extended not only to the Hebrew, Greek and Latin among the ancient, and to the French, Italian, Spaniih, Portuguefe, and Dutch, among the modern ; but likewife to the Oriental tongues.
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