The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 22J. Limbird, 1833 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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... gave way to the dogmas of the Koran ; and arts , sciences , and literature , to spoliation , rapine , and ignorance . The Turkish empire , politically speaking , may , however , be said to have expired since its occupation by the ...
... gave way to the dogmas of the Koran ; and arts , sciences , and literature , to spoliation , rapine , and ignorance . The Turkish empire , politically speaking , may , however , be said to have expired since its occupation by the ...
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... gave an interesting lecture upon the properties and present applications of caout- chouc , or Indian rubber , the former uses of which were only for the rubbing out of pencil marks . It was introduced into this country about a hundred ...
... gave an interesting lecture upon the properties and present applications of caout- chouc , or Indian rubber , the former uses of which were only for the rubbing out of pencil marks . It was introduced into this country about a hundred ...
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... Gave Love Death's , and ne'er perceived it , Whilst as blindly Love receiv'd it . Since which time their darts confounding , Love now kills instead of wounding : Death our hearts with sweetness filling , Gently wounds instead of killing ...
... Gave Love Death's , and ne'er perceived it , Whilst as blindly Love receiv'd it . Since which time their darts confounding , Love now kills instead of wounding : Death our hearts with sweetness filling , Gently wounds instead of killing ...
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... gave a somewhat protracted account of the origin of the celebrated White Horse , in Berkshire , and referred to the custom of scouring the horse , or a sort of annual festival , when the peasantry clipped the turf to preserve the ...
... gave a somewhat protracted account of the origin of the celebrated White Horse , in Berkshire , and referred to the custom of scouring the horse , or a sort of annual festival , when the peasantry clipped the turf to preserve the ...
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... gave us a friendly welcome . whole village of Ockendon was assembled , and I have now to express our thanks to Mr. Eve , of the manor - farm , who entertained us very hospitably , and sent a horse imme- diately to Romford , six miles ...
... gave us a friendly welcome . whole village of Ockendon was assembled , and I have now to express our thanks to Mr. Eve , of the manor - farm , who entertained us very hospitably , and sent a horse imme- diately to Romford , six miles ...
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Page 232 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 232 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 8 - They lay like carcasses ; and hope was none, Save in the breeze that came not : savagely They glared upon each other — all was done, Water, and wine, and food, — and you might see The longings of the cannibal arise (Although they spoke not) in their wolfish eyes.
Page 22 - I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines ; And as without the sun, the world's great eye, All colours, beauties, both of Art and Nature, Are given in vain to men, so without love All beauties bred in women are in vain; All virtues born in men lie buried, For love informs them as the sun doth colours...
Page 140 - As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow, While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, So the cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while.
Page 390 - You promised to have half an eye to him, you know you did, you dirty deceitful young drab. The last time as ever I see him, poor thing, was with my own blessed Motherly eyes, Sitting as good as gold in the gutter, a playing at making little dirt pies.
Page 176 - They have put in the papers a good story made on White's: a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in : the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.
Page 188 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Page 41 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 282 - ... below zero, immediately took the consistency of ice, and thus we actually became the inhabitants of an iceberg during one of the most severe winters hitherto recorded; our sufferings aggravated by want of bedding, clothing, and animal food, need not be dwelt upon. Mr. C. Thomas, the carpenter, was the only man who perished at this beach, but three others, besides one who had lost his foot, were reduced to the last stage of debility, and only thirteen of our number were able to carry provisions...