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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... young , and fairer than ever ; for she grows not old to him who reveres her Creator , and recog- nises in the figure the benevolent Sculptor . The old man set on his way forward ; and , on the beaten path , he found an acorn ; the rain ...
... young , and fairer than ever ; for she grows not old to him who reveres her Creator , and recog- nises in the figure the benevolent Sculptor . The old man set on his way forward ; and , on the beaten path , he found an acorn ; the rain ...
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... young chief hung our own ! Our own ! bright Britain's banner ! -yea , the blue- eyed morning saw , On Badajoz stormed castle , with delight , subdued by awe , His war - vest grace that flag - staff , where Gaul's ensign used to wave ...
... young chief hung our own ! Our own ! bright Britain's banner ! -yea , the blue- eyed morning saw , On Badajoz stormed castle , with delight , subdued by awe , His war - vest grace that flag - staff , where Gaul's ensign used to wave ...
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... young DERIWAG for such was my scholastic cognomen , from a cunning knack at waggish derivations . Von Os - So , you had a character there , then ? Dov . - Yes , and have still , which I will endeavour to deserve and retain to the last ...
... young DERIWAG for such was my scholastic cognomen , from a cunning knack at waggish derivations . Von Os - So , you had a character there , then ? Dov . - Yes , and have still , which I will endeavour to deserve and retain to the last ...
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... young ambition of Knowledge that false friend which nurseth in her bosom disease and early death ? Does it wake beside the vigil of some woman heart , beating for the approach of a guilty leman - or waiting , in chillness and in dread ...
... young ambition of Knowledge that false friend which nurseth in her bosom disease and early death ? Does it wake beside the vigil of some woman heart , beating for the approach of a guilty leman - or waiting , in chillness and in dread ...
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... young , merry , innocent , and , there being four of them , fearless . I counted the lines in their hands - made all sorts of odd figures out of Euclid , and by the help of the Asses ' Bridge , I foretold Anne a Lord's elder son . They ...
... young , merry , innocent , and , there being four of them , fearless . I counted the lines in their hands - made all sorts of odd figures out of Euclid , and by the help of the Asses ' Bridge , I foretold Anne a Lord's elder son . They ...
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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.