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There was a large white filk flag at the head of the maft, edged round with a deep red for about two or three inches broad, and in the middle there was neatly drawn a green griffon, trampling on awinged ferpent, that feemed to ftruggle to get up, and threatened his adverfary with open mouth, and with a long fting that was ready to be darted into his legs.
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I bad been several times rehearsed, the players eel in their parts, and all things in readiness fting, before the great piaguc, 1665, which lit. lat was so ready for the stage, and so neir ed, at the breaking out of the terrible sick - very difterent fiom what you have sine? seen in that be called his poet Bilboa; by wiiicii he town generally understood Sir Kobeit to be the person pointed at.
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Indulging it to excefs, he ne - glefted to enquire after his friend's daugh* teri he intended to provide amply for her, but now he couU only grieve Some time clapfed, then he fent, arid the intelligence which he procured aggravated his diftrefs, and gave it a kycre additional fting.
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The fting of death, is the evil which fin deferves, and xvhich the law denounces, which is the fecond death.
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It has no fting for them, but comes to them as a friend, by which they are delivered from all moral and natural evil, and become perfeftly holy, and enter upon a life unfpeakably better than to live here in the body.
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Ar. Yet I will fting thee, I will taunt thw ftiH. —
Tragedies: By Hugh Downman, M.D. Hugh Downman 1792
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The frefh breeze of the evening banifhes them to the covert o of their reeds, but they are fucceeded by myriads of gnats, which we endeavoured to difiipate by means of thick fmoke, a remedy in ufe among the natives of Loui - fiana againfl the fting and importunity of this intolerable race of infecfls.
Travels round the world, in the years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 Pierre Marie François 1791
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Salute dear John York; liold up his hands for me, and bid him ftand fad in the Lord; leaning upon the crofs of Him, who bruifed the ferpent's head, and over - came death, hell, and the grave, by pulling out Tm, the fting of death.
Posthumous pieces of ... John William de la Flechere, by M. Horne 1791
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Ye Powers! that thought improves ev'n Terror's kingy Adds horrors to his brow, and torments to his fting.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Oh the burft gates! crufh'd fting! demolifh'd throne 1
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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