The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794

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J. Exshaw., 1741

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Sivu 615 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and...
Sivu 614 - Whig, as I rather hope, and as I think, your principles and mine (as brother poets) had ever a bias to the side of liberty, I know you will be an honest man, and an inoffensive one. Upon the whole, I know, you are incapable of being so much of either party as to be good for nothing.
Sivu 608 - ... man could do. The Plan of it, which he published some years ago, seems to me to be a proof of it.
Sivu 502 - His business is serious, and he applies himself seriously to it ; he steadily pursues the numbing, stupifying, and petrifying, not the animating and exhilarating qualities of the wine. Gallons of the Nepenthe would be lost upon him.
Sivu 142 - The fame fad morn * to church and ftate, (So for our fins 'twas fix'd by fate) A double ftroke was giv'n ; Black as the whirlwinds of the north, St.
Sivu 241 - Water : an old woman has made this difcovery to me, and told me the place where they are to be found, and the way thither. Perhaps you may look upon...
Sivu 502 - A very skilful surgeon of my acquaintance assured me, that, having opened the body of a SOAKER, who died of an apoplexy, he had found all the finer tubes and vessels plugged up with the tartar of the wine he had swallowed, so as to render the circulation of the blood absolutely impossible, and the folds of the stomach so stiffened with it, that it could not perform its functions.
Sivu 610 - I had a greater opinion of his impartiality and severity as a judge, than of his gallantry as a fine gentleman. And indeed I am well aware of the difficulties he would have to encounter, if he attempted to reconcile the polite •with the grammatical part of our language. Should he, by an act of power, banish and attaint many of the favourite words and expressions with which the ladies have so profusely enriched our language, he would excite the indignation...
Sivu 401 - Adverftty, tho' hateful to his heart, and a fpectre to his eyes, was the tonllant attendant upon his fteps ; and to aggravate his forrow, he received certain intelligence, that his richeft veflel was taken by a Sardinian. pirate ; that another was loft upon the Lybian Syrtes, and, to compleat all, that the banker, with whom the greateft part of his ready money was entrufted, had deferted his creditors, and retired into Sicily. Collecting therefore the fmall remains of his fortune, he bid...
Sivu 401 - ... to him, a face as withered and deformed, as before it had appeared youthful and engaging. What became of him afterwards, tradition does not relate with certainty. It is believed that he fled into Egypt, and lived...

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