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... Answer to Meffieurs Bamfield and Wildbore , in the Diaries for the Year 1763 and 1764 . N. B. The Paragraphs in Mr. Bamfield's are numbered , amounting to 15-3 and the Lines in Mr. Wildbore's , to 99 . SIR , Thank you for gratifying my ...
... Answer to Meffieurs Bamfield and Wildbore , in the Diaries for the Year 1763 and 1764 . N. B. The Paragraphs in Mr. Bamfield's are numbered , amounting to 15-3 and the Lines in Mr. Wildbore's , to 99 . SIR , Thank you for gratifying my ...
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... teach ; I. 2 . 6 . 10 . 3 . In Ranks they to the Church repair From Hearts devout to offer Pray'r , And hear the Paftor preach . Muficians Muficians will refuse to Tune To am'rous SPARK the deep 26 Enigmas in 1767 , answered .
... teach ; I. 2 . 6 . 10 . 3 . In Ranks they to the Church repair From Hearts devout to offer Pray'r , And hear the Paftor preach . Muficians Muficians will refuse to Tune To am'rous SPARK the deep 26 Enigmas in 1767 , answered .
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... laid afide I'll hafte to meet my promis'd Bride , The much - lov'd Black - Ey'd Maid !. 3 . 4 , 5 6 . 9 . X. See ! Hymen's Torch exalted high , Swift as X Soet 28 Enigmas in 1767 , answered . II. Not Phillis with her sprightly Mien, ...
... laid afide I'll hafte to meet my promis'd Bride , The much - lov'd Black - Ey'd Maid !. 3 . 4 , 5 6 . 9 . X. See ! Hymen's Torch exalted high , Swift as X Soet 28 Enigmas in 1767 , answered . II. Not Phillis with her sprightly Mien, ...
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... Answer to the Rebufes . The Rebufes which to conceal you made shift Are READING , BASSOON , and my Friend SHARPER STU Mifs POLLY STOw , gives the following Anfwer to her The GENT . Diary ; or , Math . Repository . 29.
... Answer to the Rebufes . The Rebufes which to conceal you made shift Are READING , BASSOON , and my Friend SHARPER STU Mifs POLLY STOw , gives the following Anfwer to her The GENT . Diary ; or , Math . Repository . 29.
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... Answered by Mr. John Buddles . Were I from these to chufe a Mate , The Wit I'd love ; the Beauty hate : For , in the witty Head is Senfe Which ever will chace Folly thence : But Beauty , with conceited Brain , In Folly ever will remain ...
... Answered by Mr. John Buddles . Were I from these to chufe a Mate , The Wit I'd love ; the Beauty hate : For , in the witty Head is Senfe Which ever will chace Folly thence : But Beauty , with conceited Brain , In Folly ever will remain ...
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Page 5 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 5 - Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of...
Page 13 - ... prodigies and predictions. For as it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy, it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.
Page 5 - The golden zones of heaven; to some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things, Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken chain, And will's quick impulse; others by the hand She led o'er vales and mountains, to explore What healing virtue swells the tender veins Of herbs and flowers...
Page 17 - Henry I, Stephen, Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III, Ed-ward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV...
Page 13 - Sibyls, that fore- bodes and prophefies from one end of the year to the other. She is always feeing apparitions and hearing death-watches ; and was the other day almoft frighted out of her wits by the great houfe-dog, that howled ia the liable at a time when me lay ill of the tooth-ach.
Page 14 - Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.