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Page 17 - Pearl upon our Coast. And in these Rocks for us did frame A Temple, where to sound his Name. Oh let our Voice his Praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's Vault : Which thence (perhaps) rebounding may Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.
Page 205 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 150 - As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his servants. Written by William Shakspeare. Printed by VS for Andrew Wise and William Aspley.
Page 284 - ART. VIII. — Examen ; or, an Inquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a pretended Complete History ; shewing the perverse and wicked Design of it, and the many Falsities and Abuses of Truth contained in it. Together with some Memoirs occasionally inserted. All tending to vindicate the Honour of the late King Charles II., and his happy Reign, from the intended aspersions of that foul Pen.
Page 145 - Letters. Poor man! he was always wishing for money, for fame, and other distinctions; and his whole philosophy consisted in living against his will in retirement, and in a place which his taste had adorned; but which he only enjoyed when people of note came to see and commend it: his correspondence is about nothing else but this place and his own writings, with two or three neighbouring clergymen, who wrote verses too.
Page 263 - Abridgment of the minutes of the evidence taken before a committee of the whole House to whom it was referred to consider of the slave-trade.