The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Bind 9J. Limbird, 1828 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... called her Mistress Hester - the red - hair- ed charity girl , and the tabby cat , still remaining in full activity ; whilst the very inscription of her maiden days , * See MIRROR , p . 389 , vol . vill . " Hester Hewitt's home - brewed ...
... called her Mistress Hester - the red - hair- ed charity girl , and the tabby cat , still remaining in full activity ; whilst the very inscription of her maiden days , * See MIRROR , p . 389 , vol . vill . " Hester Hewitt's home - brewed ...
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... her next neighbour without being called to account for so natural a feeling . It seems that Jacob thought so too , for on Hester's conditioning that Mrs. Glen should be excluded from the party , he just gave THE MIRROR .
... her next neighbour without being called to account for so natural a feeling . It seems that Jacob thought so too , for on Hester's conditioning that Mrs. Glen should be excluded from the party , he just gave THE MIRROR .
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... called after him . Cahir Si , a small post village , lies opposite the east en- trance . From east to west , inside the harbour , there are four safe anchorages , in from three to five fathoms water , viz . the first , from the west ...
... called after him . Cahir Si , a small post village , lies opposite the east en- trance . From east to west , inside the harbour , there are four safe anchorages , in from three to five fathoms water , viz . the first , from the west ...
Side 11
... called , but why the Grecians called it Britain , could not be accounted for . Britain is derived from Prydain , the name given to it by the Britains upwards of two thousand years ago , and which signifies the fair or beautiful isle ...
... called , but why the Grecians called it Britain , could not be accounted for . Britain is derived from Prydain , the name given to it by the Britains upwards of two thousand years ago , and which signifies the fair or beautiful isle ...
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... called Dead Man's Plack , tradition reports that Edgar , surnamed the peaceable , king of England , in the ardour of youth , love , and indignation , slew with his own hand , his treacherous and ungrateful favourite , earl Athelswold ...
... called Dead Man's Plack , tradition reports that Edgar , surnamed the peaceable , king of England , in the ardour of youth , love , and indignation , slew with his own hand , his treacherous and ungrateful favourite , earl Athelswold ...
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Side 224 - The roar of waters!— from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Side 318 - I've paced much this weary mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare 'If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Side 428 - That dimly show'd the state in which he lay; The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread ; The humid wall with paltry pictures spread...
Side 84 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine • not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Side 14 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
Side 248 - The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Side 15 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Side 430 - My first view of it was about a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few Pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established encampments on the borders.
Side 14 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Side 386 - Mr Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller, one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. "Nephew," said Sir Godfrey, "you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.