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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... passed , it is easy for a queen to be applauded for personal attractions . We are told by a Venetian minister , that she was then " a lady of great elegance both of mind and body ; of a countenance rather pleasing than beautiful : tall ...
... passed , it is easy for a queen to be applauded for personal attractions . We are told by a Venetian minister , that she was then " a lady of great elegance both of mind and body ; of a countenance rather pleasing than beautiful : tall ...
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... passing throng assembled there Gaz'd on that form- So bent , so weary - worn with care , Beneath the storm . And this , the wild and mournful lay , That cheer'd the lonely exile's way : Poland ! the yoke is on thee now— The tyrant's ...
... passing throng assembled there Gaz'd on that form- So bent , so weary - worn with care , Beneath the storm . And this , the wild and mournful lay , That cheer'd the lonely exile's way : Poland ! the yoke is on thee now— The tyrant's ...
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... passed the first landing - place . " I hope to heaven , " thought I , " the lady is not a housemaid . I have a horror of the servile . But her hand - no ! this hand is not made for mops ! " We halted at the second floor . My conductress ...
... passed the first landing - place . " I hope to heaven , " thought I , " the lady is not a housemaid . I have a horror of the servile . But her hand - no ! this hand is not made for mops ! " We halted at the second floor . My conductress ...
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... passed to the Persians , and from the latter to the Arabians . In A. H. 30 , ( a . d . 651 , ) it was known at Samarcand ; in A. H. 88 at Mecca ; and we are authorized in inferring , that it was introduced into Spain in A. D. 711 . The ...
... passed to the Persians , and from the latter to the Arabians . In A. H. 30 , ( a . d . 651 , ) it was known at Samarcand ; in A. H. 88 at Mecca ; and we are authorized in inferring , that it was introduced into Spain in A. D. 711 . The ...
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... passed away ; and in considering this record of long and devoted service , I called to mind the touching speech of Old Adam , in As you like it , when tottering after the youthful son of his ancient master : " Master , go on , and I ...
... passed away ; and in considering this record of long and devoted service , I called to mind the touching speech of Old Adam , in As you like it , when tottering after the youthful son of his ancient master : " Master , go on , and I ...
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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...
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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.