The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 40J. Limbird, 1842 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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... beautiful relater of traditional stories , and one gifted with a particular grace in reciting old ballads and songs . He dabbled in verse himself a little , and acquired the friendship and esteem of Robert Burns , the poet , who was a ...
... beautiful relater of traditional stories , and one gifted with a particular grace in reciting old ballads and songs . He dabbled in verse himself a little , and acquired the friendship and esteem of Robert Burns , the poet , who was a ...
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... beautiful in the work . Gray , who had an attachment to Cromek , denied it positively , on his friend's authority . Grieve joined him . Morrison , I saw , had strong lurking suspicions , but then he stickled for the ancient genius of ...
... beautiful in the work . Gray , who had an attachment to Cromek , denied it positively , on his friend's authority . Grieve joined him . Morrison , I saw , had strong lurking suspicions , but then he stickled for the ancient genius of ...
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... beautiful painting - pleasing for its truthfulness , cheerful for its airiness , and artistic for the rough yet natural execution of the ensemble - is one of the gayest pictures of Gainsborough , and represents to life the scenery of ...
... beautiful painting - pleasing for its truthfulness , cheerful for its airiness , and artistic for the rough yet natural execution of the ensemble - is one of the gayest pictures of Gainsborough , and represents to life the scenery of ...
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... beautiful young mother who came in her joy ; besides this , the devil kept whispering to me to secure the bit of ground . I took my own child , my own little Suzette , whose features bore some little resemblance to my nursling's , and ...
... beautiful young mother who came in her joy ; besides this , the devil kept whispering to me to secure the bit of ground . I took my own child , my own little Suzette , whose features bore some little resemblance to my nursling's , and ...
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... beautiful study for a painter . " The walks for many miles round the town , in every direction , are charming ; the peeps you catch at the different openings are striking ; and you stop with pleasure to gaze upon so singular a scene ...
... beautiful study for a painter . " The walks for many miles round the town , in every direction , are charming ; the peeps you catch at the different openings are striking ; and you stop with pleasure to gaze upon so singular a scene ...
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Page 236 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 304 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man 's invention upon the rack,' and' one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 184 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible.
Page 49 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased.
Page 414 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Page 183 - ... almost superhuman energy; the innocent and irrepressible joy of infancy ; the bloom, and buoyancy, and dazzling hopes of youth ; the throbbings of the heart, when it first wakes to love, and dreams of a happiness too vast for earth ; woman, with her beauty, and grace, and gentleness, and fulness of feeling, and depth of affection, and her blushes of purity, and the tones and looks which only a mother's heart can inspire; — these are all poetical.
Page 26 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Page 411 - Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress and nearer to the Earth Wheels her pale course...
Page 25 - I would chiefly recommend, that an implicit obedience to the Rules of Art, as established by the practice of the great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, .which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them as perfeet and infallible guides ; as subjects for their imitation, not their criticism.
Page 89 - Roused by the prince of air, the whirlwinds sweep The surge, and plunge his father in the deep ; Then full against his Cornish lands they roar, And two rich shipwrecks bless the lucky shore. Sir Balaam now, he lives like other folks, He takes his chirping pint, and cracks his jokes : "Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word; And lo!