The Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 152

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R. Newton, 1832

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Side 206 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Side 220 - I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden. Only, if your Honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised; and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Side 144 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Side 310 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Side 306 - ... out-living him, and he not having the fate, common with some, to be exequutor to his owne writings) you will use the like indulgence toward them, you have done unto their parent.
Side 219 - Great wrong I doe, I can it not deny, To that most sacred Empresse, my dear dred, Not finishing her Queene of Faery, That mote enlarge her living prayses, dead. But Lodwick, this of grace to me aread; Do ye not thinck th' accomplishment of it Sufficient worke for one mans simple head, All were it, as the rest, but rudely writ?
Side 306 - Nations (we have heard) that had not gummes and incense, obtained their requests with a leavened Cake. It was no fault to approach their Gods, by what meanes they could: And the most, though meanest, of things are made more precious, when they are dedicated to Temples.
Side 220 - Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Side 276 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Side 269 - Subsecivae,' a connected series of notes respecting the geography, chronology and literary history of the principal codes and original documents of the Grecian, Roman, feudal and canon law. He continued and completed Hargrave's 'Coke Upon Littleton...

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