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... last twenty - five Years . Her Fleet , which was fent out to take a little Air and Exercife , is returned into Port , without giving the leaft Moleftation to the Swedes by Sea , any more than her Army in Finland does by Land . This ...
... last twenty - five Years . Her Fleet , which was fent out to take a little Air and Exercife , is returned into Port , without giving the leaft Moleftation to the Swedes by Sea , any more than her Army in Finland does by Land . This ...
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... last reviv'd , on Lydia's Neck fshe hung , And like a Swan expiring , thus fhe fung . Farewel ye Forefts and delightful Hills , Ye flowry Meadows and ye crystal Rills , Ye friendly Groves to whom we us❜d to run , And beg a Shelter from ...
... last reviv'd , on Lydia's Neck fshe hung , And like a Swan expiring , thus fhe fung . Farewel ye Forefts and delightful Hills , Ye flowry Meadows and ye crystal Rills , Ye friendly Groves to whom we us❜d to run , And beg a Shelter from ...
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... last Winter , by giving fo many Benefit Plays to Perfons in Diftrefs , deferves immortal Honour ; and might compenfate for Faults you are incapable of committing . Such confiderable Sums given to the Poor , fhews you are as good a Man ...
... last Winter , by giving fo many Benefit Plays to Perfons in Diftrefs , deferves immortal Honour ; and might compenfate for Faults you are incapable of committing . Such confiderable Sums given to the Poor , fhews you are as good a Man ...
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... Garrifons , tho ' we were lately told of great Reinforcements to be fent thither . His Sardinian Majefty , if we may believe the last Advices son- concerning him , is refolved to obferve his old Alliances 92 The MIDWIFE .
... Garrifons , tho ' we were lately told of great Reinforcements to be fent thither . His Sardinian Majefty , if we may believe the last Advices son- concerning him , is refolved to obferve his old Alliances 92 The MIDWIFE .
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... last and Eternal Night was come , which was to destroy both the Gods and the World together . Amongst thefe there were fome who augmented the real Terrors by imaginary ones , and made the frighted Multitude falfly believe that Mifenum ...
... last and Eternal Night was come , which was to destroy both the Gods and the World together . Amongst thefe there were fome who augmented the real Terrors by imaginary ones , and made the frighted Multitude falfly believe that Mifenum ...
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Page 64 - ... to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over —
Page 64 - 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 219 - Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. ROMEO. I would I were thy bird.
Page 65 - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not...
Page 64 - At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper.
Page 137 - At length a glimmering light appeared, which we imagined to be rather the forerunner of an approaching burst of flames, as in truth it was, than the return of day. However, the fire fell at a distance from us : then again we were immersed in thick darkness, and a heavy shower of ashes rained upon us, which we were obliged every now and then to...
Page 62 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.
Page 135 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Page 134 - The court which led to his apartment being now almost filled with stones and ashes, if he had continued there any time longer, it would have been impossible for him to have made his way out; it was thought proper therefore to awaken him.
Page 136 - Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid, the buildings all around us tottered, and though we stood upon open...