The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 2C. Ackers, 1733 - English essays |
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... she at laft entirely loft her Liberty . Athens , Carthage , Sparta , all were ruin'd by the fame Means ; Sufpici- ons of thofe in Power paved the Way to their Destruction ; and then the pretended Patriots ufurp'd all that they decry'd ...
... she at laft entirely loft her Liberty . Athens , Carthage , Sparta , all were ruin'd by the fame Means ; Sufpici- ons of thofe in Power paved the Way to their Destruction ; and then the pretended Patriots ufurp'd all that they decry'd ...
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... She gives in large recruits of needful pride 1 For as in bodies thus in fouls we find , What wants in blood and spirits fwell'd with wind . Pride bere wit fails fteps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of fense ; If ...
... She gives in large recruits of needful pride 1 For as in bodies thus in fouls we find , What wants in blood and spirits fwell'd with wind . Pride bere wit fails fteps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of fense ; If ...
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... she has barr'd , Nor will be forc'd polluted luft to prove , So fine their fenfe of pure permitted love . A wealthy lord , of generous fteeds once bred A noble race , in verdant paftures fed : At laft a murrain swept away the whole ...
... she has barr'd , Nor will be forc'd polluted luft to prove , So fine their fenfe of pure permitted love . A wealthy lord , of generous fteeds once bred A noble race , in verdant paftures fed : At laft a murrain swept away the whole ...
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... She mov'd majeftick ev'ry step she took ; Her feigned tears , her fighs , her borrow'd smart , Seem'd real forrow that had touch'd her heart ; Then the whole foul with gen'rous paffion glow'd , And hearts lay bleeding while her eyes o ...
... She mov'd majeftick ev'ry step she took ; Her feigned tears , her fighs , her borrow'd smart , Seem'd real forrow that had touch'd her heart ; Then the whole foul with gen'rous paffion glow'd , And hearts lay bleeding while her eyes o ...
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... She died in Child- bed . The Hon . Mrs. Elizabeth Audley , Re- lict of Henry Audley , late of Bear - Church in the County of Effex , Eq ; and Daughter of the Right Hon . Philip Ld . Vifc . Strangford , of the Kingdom of Ireland : She ...
... She died in Child- bed . The Hon . Mrs. Elizabeth Audley , Re- lict of Henry Audley , late of Bear - Church in the County of Effex , Eq ; and Daughter of the Right Hon . Philip Ld . Vifc . Strangford , of the Kingdom of Ireland : She ...
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Page 554 - As to those clamours which have been raised without doors, and which are now so much insisted on, it is very well known by whom and by what methods they were raised, and it is no difficult matter to guess with what views ; but I am very far from taking them to be the sense of the nation, or believing that the sentiments of the generality of the people were thereby expressed . The most part of the people concerned in those clamours did not speak their own sentiments.
Page 384 - ... and that the danger from the pretender was the more to be feared, because they did not know but he was then breeding his son a Protestant.
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Page 284 - Sinking-Fund to the Difcharge of thofe Debts, for the Difcharge of which thefe Taxes were intended and given : if fome Part of this Fund therefore continue to be mortgaged off, and other Parts to be applied to the current Service, even in the...