Monthly Magazine; Or, British Register of Literature, Sciences and the Belles- Lettres, Volume 1Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1796 - Art |
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Page 285
... seen sparkling with rapture , or melting with tenderness ; no tongue muft utter words of kindness , which have not first been exactly measured on the fcale of univerfal benevolence . In fhort , the moral world would become one flat ...
... seen sparkling with rapture , or melting with tenderness ; no tongue muft utter words of kindness , which have not first been exactly measured on the fcale of univerfal benevolence . In fhort , the moral world would become one flat ...
Page 332
... seen him bufied literally in the fame manner as one of our English poets , before he was ref- cued , by the intervention of Queen Caroline , from the plough and the flail . In short , the little farm was managed by the two brothers ...
... seen him bufied literally in the fame manner as one of our English poets , before he was ref- cued , by the intervention of Queen Caroline , from the plough and the flail . In short , the little farm was managed by the two brothers ...
Page 355
... seen through : though the great contriver , with that modefty and diffidence fo con- genial to his difpofition , was rather ap- prehenfive it would have been . In this even be was miftaken . The difguife , thin as it was , anfwered its ...
... seen through : though the great contriver , with that modefty and diffidence fo con- genial to his difpofition , was rather ap- prehenfive it would have been . In this even be was miftaken . The difguife , thin as it was , anfwered its ...
Page 389
... seen the original ; and as I doubt . not but your Correfpondent is actuated by the beft motives , I wish he would look round his connections , and , perhaps , when he confiders how many of fuch excellent but afflicted characters he can ...
... seen the original ; and as I doubt . not but your Correfpondent is actuated by the beft motives , I wish he would look round his connections , and , perhaps , when he confiders how many of fuch excellent but afflicted characters he can ...
Page 418
... seen in the people fo many inftance of evident ap- proximation towards rectitude of prin- ciple and public virtue in the late con- teits . In the metropolis , nearly three thoufand liverymen came forward almost unfolicited , and without ...
... seen in the people fo many inftance of evident ap- proximation towards rectitude of prin- ciple and public virtue in the late con- teits . In the metropolis , nearly three thoufand liverymen came forward almost unfolicited , and without ...
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