The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 17James Anderson Mundell and Son, 1793 - Scotland |
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... labour too that is employed annually in making and repairing hedges , and the waste that arises from beasts breaking through such imperfect fences , if fairly estimated , would amount to a vast sum ; all of which may be accounted a real ...
... labour too that is employed annually in making and repairing hedges , and the waste that arises from beasts breaking through such imperfect fences , if fairly estimated , would amount to a vast sum ; all of which may be accounted a real ...
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... labours hard , Hope stimulates , looks for reward . How many thousands sail the main , Riches in hopes thereby to gain ? The soldier fights , he storms the town , Hoping for vict'ry and renown . Hope's influence let us now pursue , As ...
... labours hard , Hope stimulates , looks for reward . How many thousands sail the main , Riches in hopes thereby to gain ? The soldier fights , he storms the town , Hoping for vict'ry and renown . Hope's influence let us now pursue , As ...
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... labour , SIR ROBERT the priest [ meditating alone ] The sultry sun is in his mid career ; A seed of life from ev'ry beem he sheds : Yet . while his piercing rays the grafs make sear , See the sever'd flowret withers o'er the meads ...
... labour , SIR ROBERT the priest [ meditating alone ] The sultry sun is in his mid career ; A seed of life from ev'ry beem he sheds : Yet . while his piercing rays the grafs make sear , See the sever'd flowret withers o'er the meads ...
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... labour and drudgery all our days waste , Yet never of plenty or honours fhall taste ? Turn thine eyes round upon this new mown lee ; With look attentive view the wither'd dale ; Here to thy question thou'lt fit answer see ; This faded ...
... labour and drudgery all our days waste , Yet never of plenty or honours fhall taste ? Turn thine eyes round upon this new mown lee ; With look attentive view the wither'd dale ; Here to thy question thou'lt fit answer see ; This faded ...
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... labours , and thrown with- out a friend upon a hard hearted world . Tired with this fhocking picture , I turned to one of an opposite kind . I saw a people uncontrolled by authority a prey to unbounded licentiousness . My blood froze ...
... labours , and thrown with- out a friend upon a hard hearted world . Tired with this fhocking picture , I turned to one of an opposite kind . I saw a people uncontrolled by authority a prey to unbounded licentiousness . My blood froze ...
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Page 178 - The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.
Page 178 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance.
Page 323 - The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best pledge of future crop : With glee the gardener eyes his smoking beds : E'en pining sickness feels a short relief. The happy schoolboy brings transported forth His...
Page 165 - In seventy or eighty years a man may have a deep gust of the world, know what it is, what it can afford, and what 'tis to have been a man.
Page 26 - Philadelphia; by trade a printer ; and a bachelor ; I have some relations at" Boston, to whom I am going to make a visit: my stay will be short, and I shall then return and follow my business, as a prudent man ought to do. This is all I know of myself, and all I can possibly inform you of; I beg, therefore, that you will have pity upon me and my horse, and give us both some refreshment.
Page 116 - ... to whom he secretly gave a signal, so as to let him .know the individuals he wanted, to the number often or twenty out of a flock of some hundreds.
Page 171 - Potherbs here and there he found: Which cultivated with his daily Care, And bruis'd with Vervain, were his frugal Fare. Sometimes white...
Page vii - Nation will furnish speedily a force sufficient to assist in repelling the attacks with which they are at this moment threatened by the army of Italy, which marches towards Toulon, and by that of General Carteau, who directs his forces against Marseilles. VI. That the people of Toulon...
Page 116 - ... out of a flock of some hundreds ; he then went away, and from a distance of several miles, sent back the dog by himself in the night time, who picked out the individual sheep that had been pointed out to him, separated them from the flock, and drove them before him...
Page 190 - Where, notwithstanding the difference of religion, Such extraordinary honours were paid to his memory, As had never graced that of any other British subject, Since the death of Sir Philip Sydney.