The Scots Magazine, Band 4

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Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1742

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Seite 366 - Tea, happen'd to have Charms sufficient to tempt the little-tiny Manhood of Mr. Pope into the next Room with her: at which you may imagine, his Lordship was in as much Joy, at what might happen within, as our small Friend could probably be in Possession of it: But I (forgive me all ye mortified Mortals whom his fell...
Seite 514 - That you, and each of you, be taken to the place from whence you came, and that you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution...
Seite 366 - Prick'd to it by foolish Honesty and Love, As Shakespear says, without Ceremony, threw open the Door upon him, where I found this little hasty Hero, like a terrible Tom Tit, pertly perching upon the Mount of Love ! But such was my Surprize that I fairly laid hold of his Heels, and actually drew him down safe and sound from his Danger.
Seite 363 - Bays might think proper to take. Much about this time, then, the Three Hours after Marriage had been acted without success, when Mr.
Seite 160 - ... the crowns of France and Spain, with the Imperial dignity, and the Austrian dominions. It was therefore highly reasonable, both in France and us, to take the alarm at such designs, and to think betimes of preventing their being carried into execution. But with regard to us, it was more particularly our business to take the alarm, because we were to have been immediately attacked. I shall grant, Sir, it would have been very difficult, if not impossible, for Spain and the...
Seite 36 - As I am a man, I love him ; as I am a scholar, I hate him ; as I am a Briton, I calmly wish his fall.
Seite 363 - Mr Pope, you are so particular a man, that I must be ashamed to return your language as I ought to do ; but since you have attacked me in so monstrous a manner, this you may depend upon, that as long as the play continues to be acted, I will never fail to repeat the same words over and over again...
Seite 161 - Spain, where we have always had a very beneficial commerce. These hopes, it is true, sir, at last proved abortive; but I never heard it was a crime to hope for the best. This sort of hope was the cause of the late convention. If Spain had performed her part of that preliminary treaty, I am sure...
Seite 41 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
Seite 363 - Pope, that, in the swelling of his Heart, after the Play was over, he came behind the Scenes, with his Lips pale and his Voice trembling, to call me to account for the Insult...

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