London Magazine Enlarged and Improved, Volum 5

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C. Ackers, 1736

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Pàgina 95 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair...
Pàgina 96 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Pàgina 254 - ... reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth — viz., to judge whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. And this judgment they cannot part with...
Pàgina 96 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the Snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their Hair, And the Sparkles that flash from their Eyes ! Behold a ghastly Band, Each a Torch in his Hand!
Pàgina 332 - Let them rave at making laws ; While they never hold their tongue, Let them dabble in their dung : Let them form a grand committee, How to plague and starve the city ; Let them stare, and storm, and frown When they see a clergy gown ; Let them, ere they crack a louse, Call for th...
Pàgina 96 - The mighty mafter fmil'd to fee That love was in the next degree; 'Twas but a kindred found to move, For pity melts the mind to love.
Pàgina 271 - E'er said of me, is, I can bite: That sturdy Vagrants, Rogues in Rags, Who poke at me, can make no Brags; And that to towze such Things as flutter, To honest Bounce is Bread and Butter. While you, and every courtly Fop, Fawn on the Devil for a Chop, I've the Humanity to hate A Butcher, tho...
Pàgina 331 - Could I from the building's top Hear the rattling thunder drop, While the devil upon the roof (If the devil be...
Pàgina 331 - Let them, when they once get in, Sell the nation for a pin ; While they sit a picking straws, Let them rave at making laws ; While they never hold their tongue, Let them dabble in their dung...
Pàgina 254 - The people therefore, finding reason to be satisfied with these princes, whenever they acted without or contrary to the letter of the law, acquiesced in what they did, and, without the least complaint, let them enlarge their prerogative as they pleased, judging rightly that they did nothing herein to the prejudice of their laws, since they acted conformable to the foundation and end of all laws, the public good.

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