The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 5Philological Society of London, 1784 |
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... Bill 50 15 17 - 20 - Mr. Adams's Hiftory of the Dispute with America ibid Earl of Stair on the Duty of the Creditors of the Public Peterfon's Memorial on the Woollen Manu- - - 52 24 Account of the Aerial Travellers 25 Defultory Thoughts ...
... Bill 50 15 17 - 20 - Mr. Adams's Hiftory of the Dispute with America ibid Earl of Stair on the Duty of the Creditors of the Public Peterfon's Memorial on the Woollen Manu- - - 52 24 Account of the Aerial Travellers 25 Defultory Thoughts ...
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... Bill . By William Pulteney , Efq . Pamph . Practical Obfervations on Venereal Complaints . By F. Swediar , M. D. An Addrefs to the Lords Commif- fioners of the Admiralty . By a Sailor . Pamph . A Collection of the Letters which have ...
... Bill . By William Pulteney , Efq . Pamph . Practical Obfervations on Venereal Complaints . By F. Swediar , M. D. An Addrefs to the Lords Commif- fioners of the Admiralty . By a Sailor . Pamph . A Collection of the Letters which have ...
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... bills , which have been brought in by an illuftrious commoner , and this candidate , at once for the favour of the people and the crown , ftated a most invidious contrast between two of the moft eminent men that ever adorned the age ...
... bills , which have been brought in by an illuftrious commoner , and this candidate , at once for the favour of the people and the crown , ftated a most invidious contrast between two of the moft eminent men that ever adorned the age ...
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... bill , ftolen from them and loff at a gaming table . The Americans had a loan raised in Holland . 25. An embargo was ... bills , public and private , paffed by commiffion . The French minifter was introduced to his Majefty . 15 The ...
... bill , ftolen from them and loff at a gaming table . The Americans had a loan raised in Holland . 25. An embargo was ... bills , public and private , paffed by commiffion . The French minifter was introduced to his Majefty . 15 The ...
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... bill paffed which feparated the courts of juflice in England and Ire- land . A fire in Great Turnstile , Lincoln's Inn Fields , burnt feveral houfes . 18. The Genevefe emigrants were ad- mitted to fettle in Ireland by authority . The ...
... bill paffed which feparated the courts of juflice in England and Ire- land . A fire in Great Turnstile , Lincoln's Inn Fields , burnt feveral houfes . 18. The Genevefe emigrants were ad- mitted to fettle in Ireland by authority . The ...
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Página 245 - Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The...
Página 245 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white.
Página 129 - That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Página 329 - Gray should have entertained suspicions with regard to the authenticity of these fragments of our Highland poetry. The first time I was shown the copies of some of them in manuscript, by our friend John Home, I was inclined to be a little incredulous on that head; but Mr. Home removed my scruples, by informing me of the manner in which he procured them from Mr. Macpherson, the translator. These two gentlemen were drinking the waters together at Moffat last autumn, when their conversation fell upon...
Página 427 - Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery.
Página 330 - Lochaber, who, he says, can recite a great number of them, but never committed them to writing; as indeed the orthography of the Highland language is not fixed, and the natives have always employed more the sword than the pen. This surgeon has by heart the epic poem mentioned by Mr Macpherson in his preface; and as he is somewhat old, and is the only person living that has it entire, we are in the more haste to recover a monument, which will certainly be regarded as a curiosity in the Republic of...
Página 169 - ... plaintiff; but, far from coveting your acquaintance, I never dreamed of exchanging a word with you on that or any other subject : you might therefore have spared your invidious declaration, until I had put it in your power to mortify me with a repulse, which, upon my honour, would never .have been the case, were you a much greater man than you really are. Yet this was not the only expedient you used to prepossess the jury against me. You...
Página 23 - The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Página 329 - ... asked whether he had ever translated any of them ? Mr. Macpherson replied, that he never had attempted any such thing; and doubted whether it was possible to transfuse such beauties into our language; but for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the strain of that wild poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into English. He accordingly brought him one next day ; which our friend was so much pleased with, that he never ceased soliciting Mr. Macpherson till...
Página 172 - ... fallen together upon my grave. The men were used to say, that no woman had so many graces as Eliza: the women said so too. They all praised her candour; they all extolled her sensibility; they were all ambitious of the honour of her acquaintance. The stings of envy were never pointed against unconscious merit.