The Miscellaneous Works of Richard Linnecar, of WakefieldThomas Wright, 1789 - 300 pages |
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... Hand , imperfect as thefe Compositions are , they would have been much more fo . The Author is proud of having received fuch Favors from fuch a Friend , which he will never forget fo long as he fhall be able to remember any thing ...
... Hand , imperfect as thefe Compositions are , they would have been much more fo . The Author is proud of having received fuch Favors from fuch a Friend , which he will never forget fo long as he fhall be able to remember any thing ...
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... an obftacle , if fome damn'd rogue of a Lawyer has it in hand , that I may be quite starv'd , before he can prove himself to be alive . Two years abfence and poor living , A may may have put him out of the knowledge of hist.
... an obftacle , if fome damn'd rogue of a Lawyer has it in hand , that I may be quite starv'd , before he can prove himself to be alive . Two years abfence and poor living , A may may have put him out of the knowledge of hist.
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... hand to one her Mother disapproves . BRISK . But do your best ; that we may come together How long have the Ladies been returned from Italy ? too . FAITHFUL . They never went : for whilft they stay'd at Portsmouth , waiting for a fhip ...
... hand to one her Mother disapproves . BRISK . But do your best ; that we may come together How long have the Ladies been returned from Italy ? too . FAITHFUL . They never went : for whilft they stay'd at Portsmouth , waiting for a fhip ...
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... hands . I think it was but a poor plot of his : but it will expofe his folly and villainy at laft . TRUEMAN . I really believe , he thinks me dead ; for I was in fo poor a way when I fent the laft letter , that I was forc'd to get ...
... hands . I think it was but a poor plot of his : but it will expofe his folly and villainy at laft . TRUEMAN . I really believe , he thinks me dead ; for I was in fo poor a way when I fent the laft letter , that I was forc'd to get ...
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... hand to a perfon , who , I dare fay was a perfect stranger to her . They have certainly quarrelled . I ob- ferved him all the morning after very uneafy . Do you know nothing of it . CLARISSA . No , Madam . But I thought she looked ...
... hand to a perfon , who , I dare fay was a perfect stranger to her . They have certainly quarrelled . I ob- ferved him all the morning after very uneafy . Do you know nothing of it . CLARISSA . No , Madam . But I thought she looked ...
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ACHMET affured afide Apollo-Lodge Attorney at Law blefs bleft BRISK buſineſs Captain CASHLOVE caufe CHARLOTTE Chloe Chriftians Clariffa CLARISSA Cornwall Damon dear defire Derry ditto DROLIO e'er Edinburgh EGMOND Enter ev'ry Exeunt exit fafe faid FAITHFUL fear fent feven fhall fhew fhip fhould firſt flaves fome foon foul FREEMAN ftill fuch fure fweet Hafan HALI Halyma happineſs HASAN hear heart heaven hope houſe huſband James Jofeph John lady laft LAURA Leeds Leonifa Liverpool Lodge loft London Lord Madam mafons Mafter maid MANCHETTE Mifs STUKELY moſt muft muſt MUSTAPHA myſelf never Newcaſtle night PINUM pleaſe pleaſure Pontefract pray prefent RATTLE RICARDO Servant ſhall ſhe Sheffield Sir Charles Friendly ſpeak Tangier tell thee thefe theſe thofe Thomas thoſe thou thought thouſand TRUEMAN VIXEN Wakefield whilft whofe wife WILDLY William WORTHY wretch your's Zanger
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Page 258 - Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 260 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art •£*• always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve ; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy ; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord.
Page 262 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth .' Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded...
Page 239 - Let there be light !" — the Almighty spoke, Refulgent streams from chaos broke, To illume the rising earth ! Well pleas'd the great Jehovah stood, The power supreme pronounc'd it good, And gave the planets birth ! In choral numbers Masons join, To bless and praise this light...
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Page 252 - ... honesty or fidelity, and adds, when they promised anything of old, they gave their hand upon it, as we do now, and therefore she is represented as giving her hand, and sometimes as only two hands conjoined. Chartarius...
Page 218 - Whilfl others run mad, when they find out their wives, Like horn-giggs they whip them each day of their lives. Derry down.
Page 248 - Faul mentions that Moses exceedingly quaked and feared on mount Sinai; but we do not find it so recorded any where in the old Testament.
Page 258 - Ifaac laid to his father, father here is the altar and the fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?