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... look on older ftories of the trances of monaftical people , as contrivances to ferve base pur- pofes , and made way for the destruction of that order of men in England . " We fhall conclude our account of this Hiftory of Glou ...
... look on older ftories of the trances of monaftical people , as contrivances to ferve base pur- pofes , and made way for the destruction of that order of men in England . " We fhall conclude our account of this Hiftory of Glou ...
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... look above the world ( not in a Chriftian fenfe ) and plume themfelves upon their learning , when , at the fame time , if we may judge by their mife- rable difcourtes , delivered as miferably from the pulpit , they are deftitute almost ...
... look above the world ( not in a Chriftian fenfe ) and plume themfelves upon their learning , when , at the fame time , if we may judge by their mife- rable difcourtes , delivered as miferably from the pulpit , they are deftitute almost ...
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... looks grave . Like Proteus , in a thoufand fhapes is feen , Prief , pimp or lackey , bull dog , Spaniel , dean . For court by nature he was firft design'd , But fhifts a weather - cock , with every wind : Promotion fills his aking head ...
... looks grave . Like Proteus , in a thoufand fhapes is feen , Prief , pimp or lackey , bull dog , Spaniel , dean . For court by nature he was firft design'd , But fhifts a weather - cock , with every wind : Promotion fills his aking head ...
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... look upon it as one of the advantages of this Selection . We fee by it the progrefs of poetry for a long period of years , and trace the fuc ceffive improvements it has received . We have obferved in our Review for December 1775 ...
... look upon it as one of the advantages of this Selection . We fee by it the progrefs of poetry for a long period of years , and trace the fuc ceffive improvements it has received . We have obferved in our Review for December 1775 ...
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... look the fun of righteoufnefs i ' th ' face . What may we hope , if thou goeft on thus faft ? Scriptures at firft , enthufiafms at laft ! Thou hast commenc'd , betimes , a faint : go on , Mingling diviner streams with Helicon ; That ...
... look the fun of righteoufnefs i ' th ' face . What may we hope , if thou goeft on thus faft ? Scriptures at firft , enthufiafms at laft ! Thou hast commenc'd , betimes , a faint : go on , Mingling diviner streams with Helicon ; That ...
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Page 344 - The Lord looketh from heaven ; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Page 140 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd if its end it gain, And, if it lose, attended with no pain ; Without satiety...
Page 416 - Henries — who stalk from desolation to desolation, through the dreary vacuity and melancholy succession of chill and comfortless chambers.
Page 269 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste...
Page 87 - Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 140 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 176 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
Page 269 - ... his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet...
Page 177 - And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name ; therefore have I driven him out from before my face into the wilderness.
Page 311 - Thus every one of those principalities has the apparatus of a kingdom, for the jurisdiction over a few private estates ; and the formality and charge of the exchequer of Great Britain, for collecting the rents of a country squire.