The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4James Potts, 1774 |
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... sent a challenge to king Brian , to meet him at the head of his troops , and -give him battle at Clontarf , As Brian was not a man to be frightened , he accepted the chal- lenge without hesitation , and im- mediately began to make ...
... sent a challenge to king Brian , to meet him at the head of his troops , and -give him battle at Clontarf , As Brian was not a man to be frightened , he accepted the chal- lenge without hesitation , and im- mediately began to make ...
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... sent two burgeffes , " the " most difcreet and futhcient , who " had the greatest skill in thipping " and merchandifing . " There was a claufe in the Electi- on Bill in King William's time for rendering merchants eligible into Par ...
... sent two burgeffes , " the " most difcreet and futhcient , who " had the greatest skill in thipping " and merchandifing . " There was a claufe in the Electi- on Bill in King William's time for rendering merchants eligible into Par ...
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... , we never can be deprived . Amongst many other articles that are the produce of our Colonies , and sent from hence hence into other parts of the world , are tobacco 216 Importance and Utility of the British Colonies . April ,
... , we never can be deprived . Amongst many other articles that are the produce of our Colonies , and sent from hence hence into other parts of the world , are tobacco 216 Importance and Utility of the British Colonies . April ,
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your letter , which gave me a very clear A private Letter Sent from one Quaker t The Natural Hiftory and Virtues of Ster- expreffive of. that this feffion will be a ftormy one if Mr. Pitt takes an active part ; but if he is pleased , as ...
your letter , which gave me a very clear A private Letter Sent from one Quaker t The Natural Hiftory and Virtues of Ster- expreffive of. that this feffion will be a ftormy one if Mr. Pitt takes an active part ; but if he is pleased , as ...
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... sent him to Lincoln's - Inn to ftudy the law ; but that not being fuitable to his dfpofition , and his maternal uncle , Sir Richard Steward dying about 1620 , and leaving him an eftate of about five hundred pounds per anum , he ...
... sent him to Lincoln's - Inn to ftudy the law ; but that not being fuitable to his dfpofition , and his maternal uncle , Sir Richard Steward dying about 1620 , and leaving him an eftate of about five hundred pounds per anum , he ...
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Page 153 - Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity;— not to gravity as such;— for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together;— but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter.
Page 292 - Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind. Ye Kenricks, ye Kellys, and Woodfalls so grave, What a commerce was yours while you got and you gave!
Page 291 - Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, Or rather like tragedy giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings that folly grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own.
Page 292 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 406 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 262 - Licentiousness is the alloy of liberty: it is an ebullition, an excrescence; it is a speck upon the eye of the political body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the Government, or upon any particular man, the King's Courts are open, the law is...
Page 407 - He wish'd to be the guardian, not the king, Tyrant far less, or traitor of the field, And sure the sylvan reign unbloody joy might yield.
Page 153 - Sometimes in his wild way of talking, he would say, that gravity was an arrant scoundrel ; and he would add — of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven.
Page 532 - Her fong the warbling of the vernal grove; Her eloquence; was fweeter than her fong, Soft as her heart, and as her reafon ftrong. Her form each beauty of her mind exprefs'd,. Her mind was virtue by the graces drefs'd.
Page 407 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven...