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 2T. Sanders, 1726 |
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... give , And your threatnings which came , Without e'er a name , That you're only a knight of the poft . And thus without kicking , We use our free - speaking , For the lion was never , " Till fick of a fever , ' Afraid of the kicks of an ...
... give , And your threatnings which came , Without e'er a name , That you're only a knight of the poft . And thus without kicking , We use our free - speaking , For the lion was never , " Till fick of a fever , ' Afraid of the kicks of an ...
Page 340
... give no confirmation to the ftory , unless you fuppofe , that if it had not been founded upon good authority , he would not have af fented to it . But this you cannot fuppofe , if you confider , how warping a thing is prejudice , how ...
... give no confirmation to the ftory , unless you fuppofe , that if it had not been founded upon good authority , he would not have af fented to it . But this you cannot fuppofe , if you confider , how warping a thing is prejudice , how ...
Page 342
... give over fuch pieces of knight errantry till you are turn'd of 40 , or you will not get bread to your onions . But if you are the other perfon , a very and meer fortune hunter , then by no means find fault with the feverity of the law ...
... give over fuch pieces of knight errantry till you are turn'd of 40 , or you will not get bread to your onions . But if you are the other perfon , a very and meer fortune hunter , then by no means find fault with the feverity of the law ...
Page 343
... give you and my tend'reft care , To you I offer life , and all that's dear ; Were I to you the fame , you foon fhou'd prove , What vaft delight I take in anfw'ring of your love : Center'd in me , you all delight fhou'd find , For I wou ...
... give you and my tend'reft care , To you I offer life , and all that's dear ; Were I to you the fame , you foon fhou'd prove , What vaft delight I take in anfw'ring of your love : Center'd in me , you all delight fhou'd find , For I wou ...
Page 344
... give . Q. Apollo , pray The reafon fay Why poets do furmife That love is blind , When lovers find The boy has all his eyes ? And they're but twoj I guess ' tis thus , Aiming at us Commanded by his mother , Th ' unlucky fpright To level ...
... give . Q. Apollo , pray The reafon fay Why poets do furmife That love is blind , When lovers find The boy has all his eyes ? And they're but twoj I guess ' tis thus , Aiming at us Commanded by his mother , Th ' unlucky fpright To level ...
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