Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Part 2R. Gibson, 1792 |
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... leave home to feek for more agreeable , may I be allowed to use a fignificant French word , piquant , fociety ; and the patient drudge , who fulfils her tafk like a blind horfe in a mill , is defrauded of her juft reward ; for the wages ...
... leave home to feek for more agreeable , may I be allowed to use a fignificant French word , piquant , fociety ; and the patient drudge , who fulfils her tafk like a blind horfe in a mill , is defrauded of her juft reward ; for the wages ...
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... leave this pale , this alter'd clay : Still fhall this faint convulfive hand , With its laft motion , feebly move The murmuring ftring , at whofe com- mand Once waked the throb of mutual love . Alonzo's fhade the warning note fhall hear ...
... leave this pale , this alter'd clay : Still fhall this faint convulfive hand , With its laft motion , feebly move The murmuring ftring , at whofe com- mand Once waked the throb of mutual love . Alonzo's fhade the warning note fhall hear ...
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... leave from him to erect a fortress in his territories ; and after fome other tranfactions of lefs importance , fet fail again for Lifbon , to which he returned on the 17th of July , 1504. His coufin Francis Albuquerque is fuppofed to ...
... leave from him to erect a fortress in his territories ; and after fome other tranfactions of lefs importance , fet fail again for Lifbon , to which he returned on the 17th of July , 1504. His coufin Francis Albuquerque is fuppofed to ...
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... leave Whitehall : it was cuftomary to mount guard at both the places . The old hero , lord Craven , was on duty at the time when the Dutch guards were marching through the Park to relieve , by order of their mafier : from a point of ...
... leave Whitehall : it was cuftomary to mount guard at both the places . The old hero , lord Craven , was on duty at the time when the Dutch guards were marching through the Park to relieve , by order of their mafier : from a point of ...
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... leave the main body of their comrades , who continue their march , and lay hold of N O T E S. A very confiderable body of horfe , difperfed through every province of France , on purpofe to clear the high- ways , vagrants , & c . My dear ...
... leave the main body of their comrades , who continue their march , and lay hold of N O T E S. A very confiderable body of horfe , difperfed through every province of France , on purpofe to clear the high- ways , vagrants , & c . My dear ...
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