The British Apollo: Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous, Approved of by Many of the Most Learned and Ingenious of Both Universities, and of the Royal-Society, Volume 3T. Sanders, 1726 - 1056 pages |
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Page 699
... fons of the British Apollo , Whom fo many wife men do follow , Pray tell me the reafon , Why against a wet season , So low doth fly the swallow ? 4. The flies , which the swallows devour Defcend , when in clouds hangs a shower , And ...
... fons of the British Apollo , Whom fo many wife men do follow , Pray tell me the reafon , Why against a wet season , So low doth fly the swallow ? 4. The flies , which the swallows devour Defcend , when in clouds hangs a shower , And ...
Page 730
... fons of art , by heaven defign'd To blefs , improve , and cultivate mankind ; Who mighty things in lofty ftrains express , And in each flowing line the God confefs ; Who to the wretched always yield relief , Bind up their wounds , and ...
... fons of art , by heaven defign'd To blefs , improve , and cultivate mankind ; Who mighty things in lofty ftrains express , And in each flowing line the God confefs ; Who to the wretched always yield relief , Bind up their wounds , and ...
Page 731
... fons , be cautious how ye guide FAME'S CHARIOT , let not Phaetonian pride Poffefs your hearts , too high your thoughts elate , And you untimely meet your brother's fate , For nine revolving months your glory bright , Has fhone oe'r ...
... fons , be cautious how ye guide FAME'S CHARIOT , let not Phaetonian pride Poffefs your hearts , too high your thoughts elate , And you untimely meet your brother's fate , For nine revolving months your glory bright , Has fhone oe'r ...
Page 740
... fons of Apollo , I often have beard , That your father's you call him , had never a beard . If he had , pray inform me how this foolish ftory Was invented at first , fince it fullies his glory ? For who amongst men , but is counted as ...
... fons of Apollo , I often have beard , That your father's you call him , had never a beard . If he had , pray inform me how this foolish ftory Was invented at first , fince it fullies his glory ? For who amongst men , but is counted as ...
Page 743
... fons , the grants the grace , But names not which , of all Apollo's race . In facred bands of amity they're ty'd , Nor wou'd infringe the knot , e'en for a bride . In mutual courtefies dwells their delight , Each cautious to invade ...
... fons , the grants the grace , But names not which , of all Apollo's race . In facred bands of amity they're ty'd , Nor wou'd infringe the knot , e'en for a bride . In mutual courtefies dwells their delight , Each cautious to invade ...
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Page 767 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side: they four also had the face of an eagle.
Page 767 - The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl : and they four had one likeness : and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Page 735 - Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 762 - Chrift, who fhall change our vile body, that it may be fafliioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to fubdue all things unto him.
Page 944 - And the chief priefts took the filver pieces, and faid, It is not lawful for to put them into the treafury, becaufe it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counfel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury ftrangers in. 8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood unto this day.
Page 822 - I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 791 - But I fay unto you, That whofoever is angry with his brother without a caufe, fhall be in danger of the judgment...
Page 767 - The fceptre (hall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him (hall the gathering of the people be.
Page 862 - Coaches cou'd scarce get along, And a Parcel of Sheep Driving by, chanc'd to creep Close up to the Wall from the Throng. Full wide were the Grates, Which made the Sun, Gates, To let his light into the Cellar, And down fell a Ram, As Black as old Cham, While Kemple was toying with Keller.
Page 808 - He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.