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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... observed , that particular attention has been given to that portion of the work which contains selections from the public journals and new works of authority and of an amusing or instructive character . In order also to preserve in the ...
... observed , that particular attention has been given to that portion of the work which contains selections from the public journals and new works of authority and of an amusing or instructive character . In order also to preserve in the ...
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... observed a short time before the sun ascends ; he attains his aphelion on the 28th , being then in 22 ° Capricornus . Venus becomes stationary on the 13th in 24 ° Sagittarius , when she will afford a good opportunity for observation ...
... observed a short time before the sun ascends ; he attains his aphelion on the 28th , being then in 22 ° Capricornus . Venus becomes stationary on the 13th in 24 ° Sagittarius , when she will afford a good opportunity for observation ...
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... observed , being a mighty provoker of thirst ; neither did she very greatly object to her husband's engaging old Timothy , the fiddler , to offi- ciate for the evening , on condition of giv- ing him as much ale as he chose to drink ...
... observed , being a mighty provoker of thirst ; neither did she very greatly object to her husband's engaging old Timothy , the fiddler , to offi- ciate for the evening , on condition of giv- ing him as much ale as he chose to drink ...
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... observed how dread . fully she was altered — not in her manners , nor habits , nor conversation , but in her looks . Her cheek , it is true , was red , but it was the hot flush of fever ; her eye was bright , but it was the watery clear ...
... observed how dread . fully she was altered — not in her manners , nor habits , nor conversation , but in her looks . Her cheek , it is true , was red , but it was the hot flush of fever ; her eye was bright , but it was the watery clear ...
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... observed that the nails of his fingers were perfectly white . " Soon after he said , " How strange it is that we should be so much under the influence of our ha- bits ! the poor man who was executed this morning was a miller ; had been ...
... observed that the nails of his fingers were perfectly white . " Soon after he said , " How strange it is that we should be so much under the influence of our ha- bits ! the poor man who was executed this morning was a miller ; had been ...
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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.