The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 21J. 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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... called cap - a - pee , but Mr. P. the contractor of our caps , made them all too small for our heads . Luckily the clothes fit , except Mr. Lambert's who couldn't find a jacket big enough ; but he scorned to shrink , and wore it loose ...
... called cap - a - pee , but Mr. P. the contractor of our caps , made them all too small for our heads . Luckily the clothes fit , except Mr. Lambert's who couldn't find a jacket big enough ; but he scorned to shrink , and wore it loose ...
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... called her the Mare of Bristol , but he took the jest no better than Cobb did , and when we wheel'd to the right he was left . Between friends , I was not sorry when the word came to pull up - such crossing , and josling , and foul ...
... called her the Mare of Bristol , but he took the jest no better than Cobb did , and when we wheel'd to the right he was left . Between friends , I was not sorry when the word came to pull up - such crossing , and josling , and foul ...
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... called the Age , when driven and horsed by the late Mr. Stevenson , was an object of such admiration at Brighton , that a crowd was every day collected to see it start . Mr. Stevenson was a graduate of Cambridge , but his passion for ...
... called the Age , when driven and horsed by the late Mr. Stevenson , was an object of such admiration at Brighton , that a crowd was every day collected to see it start . Mr. Stevenson was a graduate of Cambridge , but his passion for ...
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... called the patent hoop , always used in stage coaches , having the iron tire drawn into one complete ring is not put on these wheels , but the common strokes , as they are called , forged and hammered to the sweep of the rings , and in ...
... called the patent hoop , always used in stage coaches , having the iron tire drawn into one complete ring is not put on these wheels , but the common strokes , as they are called , forged and hammered to the sweep of the rings , and in ...
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... called the upper , the other the lower , town . The lower town is principally occupied by merchants and traders ; the other part is built on the top of a steep , rocky ascent , on which are erected four bastions , enclosing the tower ...
... called the upper , the other the lower , town . The lower town is principally occupied by merchants and traders ; the other part is built on the top of a steep , rocky ascent , on which are erected four bastions , enclosing the tower ...
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Page 126 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent...
Page 184 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Page 224 - •Sir, — I have two silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol : this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, JOHN WESLEY/' Perhaps there never was a more charitable man than Mr.
Page 249 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs...
Page 204 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Page 139 - And Wordsworth, in a rather long " Excursion " (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version • Of his new system to perplex the sages; ' 'Tis poetry — at least by his assertion.
Page 431 - Venus, a pea on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
Page 280 - It were better for, him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Page 160 - you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.' 'I don't know how great men you may be,' said the Guinea man, ' but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Page 304 - What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.