The Scots Magazine, Volume 44Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1782 - English literature |
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... appear in the English Channel , p . 385 . Aug 23. Cape - River Fort on the coaft of Honduras taken by storm , p . 660 . 24 David Tyrie executed at Portsmouth for conveying intelligence to the French , p . 396 . 29. The Royal George , of ...
... appear in the English Channel , p . 385 . Aug 23. Cape - River Fort on the coaft of Honduras taken by storm , p . 660 . 24 David Tyrie executed at Portsmouth for conveying intelligence to the French , p . 396 . 29. The Royal George , of ...
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... appear with any luftre in fuch a negotiation , the effect feem- ed to be , that France , for fome time at leaft , feemed to attain the afcendant at St Peterburg , and the credit of Great Bri- tain in that court proportionably to de ...
... appear with any luftre in fuch a negotiation , the effect feem- ed to be , that France , for fome time at leaft , feemed to attain the afcendant at St Peterburg , and the credit of Great Bri- tain in that court proportionably to de ...
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... appear , it is true , that not- withstanding the enemy had been four days in the wilderness , with only half a pound of horse - flesh per man a - day , yet in this famished fituation , they trotted thirty miles before they stopped ...
... appear , it is true , that not- withstanding the enemy had been four days in the wilderness , with only half a pound of horse - flesh per man a - day , yet in this famished fituation , they trotted thirty miles before they stopped ...
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... appear to reft upon little more than bare conjecture ; and at other times , the application of facts to his pur- pofe feems far - fetched and unfatisfactory . And indeed it was impoffible it fhould be otherwife , in a work in which a ...
... appear to reft upon little more than bare conjecture ; and at other times , the application of facts to his pur- pofe feems far - fetched and unfatisfactory . And indeed it was impoffible it fhould be otherwife , in a work in which a ...
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... appear ftrange , to rank timidity , which may be fuppofed not to be in our power to prevent , in the lift of crimes . It is , however , in fome cir- cumftances undoubtedly criminal , and was esteemed as fuch by the ancient Germans ( a ) ...
... appear ftrange , to rank timidity , which may be fuppofed not to be in our power to prevent , in the lift of crimes . It is , however , in fome cir- cumftances undoubtedly criminal , and was esteemed as fuch by the ancient Germans ( a ) ...
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Page 252 - The cloister facing the south is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an orange-house, and the other for myrtles or other more common greens, and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as it is now.
Page 63 - His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter take in their turns possession of the mind.
Page 63 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Page 173 - Some dry the black'ning clusters in the sun. Others to tread the liquid harvest join, The groaning presses foam with floods of wine. Here are the vines in early flow'r descry'd, Here grapes discolour'd on the sunny side, And there in Autumn's richest purple dy'd. ' Beds of all various herbs, for ever green, In beauteous order terminate the scene.
Page 63 - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.
Page 252 - ... fountains and water-works. If the hill had not ended with the lower garden, and the wall were not bounded by a common way that goes through the park, they might have added a third quarter of all greens ; but this want is supplied by a garden on the other side the house, which is all of that sort, very wild, shady, and adorned with rough rock-work and fountains.
Page 106 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 193 - Britain, on which connection the interests and happiness of both nations essentially depend: but that the kingdom of Ireland is a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own— the sole legislature thereof. That there is no body of men competent to make laws to bind this nation except the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland; nor any other parliament which hath any authority or power of any sort whatsoever in this country save only the Parliament of Ireland.
Page 395 - The Judgment of this Court is, and the Court doth award, That you be led back to the place from whence you came, and from thence to be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of execution, and there you...
Page 308 - No sooner was this simple enchantment made, than levelling, mowing and rolling, followed. The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without.