The Lady's Magazine, Volume 6

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1775
 

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Page 183 - And though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown, that I have reigned with your loves. This makes me that I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a queen as to be a queen over so thankful a people.
Page 583 - As it excites a purer passion, it also more forcibly engages to fidelity : every man finds himself more powerfully restrained from giving pain to goodness than to beauty; and every look of a countenance in which they are blended, in which beauty is the expression of...
Page 513 - Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer: yea twice, but I will proceed no further.
Page 184 - I hold to any other, and glad to be freed of the glory with the labors, for it is not my desire to live nor to reign longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had and may have many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have any that will love you better.
Page 307 - Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy Sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II Not with more glories, in th...
Page 184 - I ascribe any of these things to myself or my sexly weakness, I were not worthy to live, and of all most unworthy of the mercies I have received at God's hands, but to God only and wholly all is given and ascribed. The cares and...
Page 184 - To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend this kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression.
Page 307 - He took the idea of thefe invifible beings, fo proper to be employed in a poem of this nature, from a little French book entitled, . Le Comte de Gabalis, of which is given t'he following account, in an entertaining writer.
Page 183 - I might a' fallen into the lapse of an error, only for want of true information. Since I was Queen, yet did I never put my pen to any grant but upon pretext and semblance made...
Page 425 - You have more strength in your Looks, than we have in our Laws, and more power by your Tears, than we have by our Arguments.

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