Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 26F. Jefferies, 1756 The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... Hand , with honeft Pride record , Still as of old the Feats of Britain's Sword ! - Vain wish ! - ' twas giv'n thee once with Joy to tell , What Palms brave Vernon won at Porto - Bell ; What prowess feiz'd from France her Royal Isle ...
... Hand , with honeft Pride record , Still as of old the Feats of Britain's Sword ! - Vain wish ! - ' twas giv'n thee once with Joy to tell , What Palms brave Vernon won at Porto - Bell ; What prowess feiz'd from France her Royal Isle ...
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... hand , the rage of perfecution is ready to be let loofe upon him , on the ap- proaching English carnival ; and what is as bad , he is in daily danger of being pitted , like a gladiator , at the caprice , and for the diver- fion of his ...
... hand , the rage of perfecution is ready to be let loofe upon him , on the ap- proaching English carnival ; and what is as bad , he is in daily danger of being pitted , like a gladiator , at the caprice , and for the diver- fion of his ...
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... hands . A was made the fecond day of their fitting , it was not answered till the fixth . They alfo alledge , that he refused his affent to their bill without fully ac quainting himself with its contents ; for that all the amendments he ...
... hands . A was made the fecond day of their fitting , it was not answered till the fixth . They alfo alledge , that he refused his affent to their bill without fully ac quainting himself with its contents ; for that all the amendments he ...
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... hand ; They leap , they dance , try all rejoice , To echo to her tuneful voice . Touch'd by her fingers magic art , The furer wound than Cupid's dart ; They're musick's body , fhe its foul . ' Tis Stella animates the whole , α M The ...
... hand ; They leap , they dance , try all rejoice , To echo to her tuneful voice . Touch'd by her fingers magic art , The furer wound than Cupid's dart ; They're musick's body , fhe its foul . ' Tis Stella animates the whole , α M The ...
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... hand unskill'd , From real life my little cloth is fill'd . My hero is a youth , -by fate defign'd For culling fimples -- but whofe ftage - ftruck mind Nor fate could rule , nor his indentures bind . A place there is where fuch ...
... hand unskill'd , From real life my little cloth is fill'd . My hero is a youth , -by fate defign'd For culling fimples -- but whofe ftage - ftruck mind Nor fate could rule , nor his indentures bind . A place there is where fuch ...
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