The County Magazine, Volume 1B.C. Collins, 1788 |
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... fair audience a few years ago , they friends had not ftained the British name blers , & c . offered their trash to a Bartholo - nifter , that a treacherous defertion of our would have been hiffed to fcorn . Our with infamy . He never ...
... fair audience a few years ago , they friends had not ftained the British name blers , & c . offered their trash to a Bartholo - nifter , that a treacherous defertion of our would have been hiffed to fcorn . Our with infamy . He never ...
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... Fair Flora fickens . T HE great operations of nature during this month , feem to be , to dry up the fuperabundant moisture of MARC H , 1786 . To be continued Monthly . Price Three - Pence . ably into the ground , is expreffed in the ...
... Fair Flora fickens . T HE great operations of nature during this month , feem to be , to dry up the fuperabundant moisture of MARC H , 1786 . To be continued Monthly . Price Three - Pence . ably into the ground , is expreffed in the ...
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... fair day . ' Twas Sunday's eve , meet feafon to prepare The ftated lectures of the coming tyde ; No day of refte to him , but day of care , At manie a church to preach , with tedious ride . ers as yet appear to decorate the ground ...
... fair day . ' Twas Sunday's eve , meet feafon to prepare The ftated lectures of the coming tyde ; No day of refte to him , but day of care , At manie a church to preach , with tedious ride . ers as yet appear to decorate the ground ...
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... fair charac- ter ; and continued to fill it with no small applaufe , both as a governor and a judge ; until one day , as he fat on the bench with fome of his brethren , a criminal was brought before them , who was accused of having ...
... fair charac- ter ; and continued to fill it with no small applaufe , both as a governor and a judge ; until one day , as he fat on the bench with fome of his brethren , a criminal was brought before them , who was accused of having ...
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... fair . She dazzles not with beauty's blaze , Nor captivates all wond'ring eyes ; With other maids in form , in grace , In rival charms fhe only vies . But Stella has that matchlefs way That wins o'er beauty , form , or art , That leads ...
... fair . She dazzles not with beauty's blaze , Nor captivates all wond'ring eyes ; With other maids in form , in grace , In rival charms fhe only vies . But Stella has that matchlefs way That wins o'er beauty , form , or art , That leads ...
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Page 360 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 105 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Page 46 - We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.
Page 35 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; — • There children dwell who know no parents...
Page 246 - Just in the dubious point, where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling stream, or where it boils Around the stone, or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Page 46 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Page 46 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers...
Page 48 - ... the lion in his rage I meet ! Oft in the dust I view his printed feet ; And fearful oft, when Day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner Night, By hunger...
Page 17 - To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Page 247 - Thee dispos'd into congenial soils, Stands each attractive plant, and sucks, and swells The juicy tide; a twining mass of tubes. At Thy command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap, detruded to the root By wintry winds; that now in fluent dance, And lively fermentation, mounting, spreads All this innumerous-coloured scene of things.