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The Gentleman's Magazine

, Volume 290 (Google eBook)
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Bradbury, Evans, 1901 - English periodicals
  

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Page 563 - The notice you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not
Page 300 - Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun : And, as a vapour or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Page 182 - Tit. The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green : Uncouple here, and let us make a bay, And wake the emperor and his lovely bride, And rouse the prince, and ring a hunter's peal, That all the court may echo with the noise.
Page 610 - huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean ; there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Page 183 - as good as he, my lord ; He cried upon it at the merest loss, And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent. Trust me, I take him for the better dog. Lord. Thou art a fool : if Echo were as fleet, I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
Page 183 - and servants :— Lord. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds : Brach Merriman—the poor cur is emboss'd ; And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach. Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault ? I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
Page 381 - That there were such creatures as witches he made no doubt at all ; for first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Page 116 - :— A pleasing land of drowsy-hed it was. Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky.
Page 282 - the moon :— Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair ; Now the Sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep. Hesperus desires thy light, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 79 - As many as have sinned without law shall perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law "), is

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