The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 35E. Cave, jun. at St John's Gate, 1765 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... She faid that the first became acquaint- ed with Wefket , after his quitting Lord E Harrington's , that he had lived with him , that they had been parted about a month , but that he still went by his name . She gave an account , alio ...
... She faid that the first became acquaint- ed with Wefket , after his quitting Lord E Harrington's , that he had lived with him , that they had been parted about a month , but that he still went by his name . She gave an account , alio ...
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... she crowd and agitation of people about the houfe was inexpreffible ; fubftantial old citizens , who could not fleep from concern , stopped members as they paffed in their chairs , to know the event ; in fhort , the face of mankind ...
... she crowd and agitation of people about the houfe was inexpreffible ; fubftantial old citizens , who could not fleep from concern , stopped members as they paffed in their chairs , to know the event ; in fhort , the face of mankind ...
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... , though the deafness of the right ear , after a- bout two years , went entirely off , it being then long fince she had taken any medicine . B In the afternoon of the 6th of Au- guft Uncommon Diforder of the Ear . 29.
... , though the deafness of the right ear , after a- bout two years , went entirely off , it being then long fince she had taken any medicine . B In the afternoon of the 6th of Au- guft Uncommon Diforder of the Ear . 29.
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... she cried out , the pain being violent , and her mother ran to her inftantly , and looking into her ear , faw no Яy , but fome drops of fresh florid blood , which C feemed to have come out of the ear with the ufual difcharge . She took ...
... she cried out , the pain being violent , and her mother ran to her inftantly , and looking into her ear , faw no Яy , but fome drops of fresh florid blood , which C feemed to have come out of the ear with the ufual difcharge . She took ...
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... she'd be wild . To this the general : Madam , who would not ! Lord ! where could Mr Bateman find this pot ? Dear Dicky could not you get fome for me ? I want fome useful china mightily , Two jars , two beakers , and a pot pourie . At ...
... she'd be wild . To this the general : Madam , who would not ! Lord ! where could Mr Bateman find this pot ? Dear Dicky could not you get fome for me ? I want fome useful china mightily , Two jars , two beakers , and a pot pourie . At ...
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Page 231 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Page 478 - I have not passed over with affected superiority what is equally difficult to the reader and to myself, but where I could not instruct him have owned my ignorance.
Page 497 - So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed that he is represented according to histories at that time vulgarly received as true. And perhaps, if we turn our thoughts upon the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this story is referred, it will appear not so unlikely as while we estimate Lear's manners by our own. Such preference of one daughter...
Page 252 - ... from it. As to a libel, the evidence is partly internal and partly external. The paper itfelf may not be compleat and conclufive evidence, for it may be dark, and unintelligible without the inuendos, which are the external evidence.
Page 479 - I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who marries Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate: when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman whom he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness.
Page 449 - Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy-writer. If it should any way lie in your way, doubt not but you would be ready to recommend and assist your countryman. "G. WALMSLEY.
Page 477 - I have added short strictures, containing a general censure of faults or praise of excellence, in which I know not how much I have concurred with the current opinion ; but I have not, by any affectation of singularity, deviated from it.
Page 27 - ... take and subscribe an oath to maintain and preserve inviolably the said settlement of the Church of England and the doctrine worship discipline and government thereof as by law established within...
Page 478 - Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind is refrigerated by interruption ; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book which he has too diligently studied.
Page 477 - I believe, is seldom pleased to find his opinion anticipated ; it is natural to delight more in what we find or make, than in what we receive. Judgment, like other faculties, is improved by practice, and its advancement is hindered by submission to dictatorial decisions, as the memory grows torpid by the use of a table-book.