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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... means comparatively ample , that he sent to Scotland , for the betrothed of his affections , a Miss Jean Walker , of Preston Mill , near Dumfries , the first and the last inspirer of his verse . This had been a love affair of some ...
... means comparatively ample , that he sent to Scotland , for the betrothed of his affections , a Miss Jean Walker , of Preston Mill , near Dumfries , the first and the last inspirer of his verse . This had been a love affair of some ...
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... means of mak- ing a drawing from it by those who are fond of sketching , as it would unquestion- ably be the most accurate view that could be obtained . The lights and shades thus presented had a pretty effect , and when the sun shone ...
... means of mak- ing a drawing from it by those who are fond of sketching , as it would unquestion- ably be the most accurate view that could be obtained . The lights and shades thus presented had a pretty effect , and when the sun shone ...
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... means to obtain information , acquired a love of reading and study . He applied himself closely in his early years to mathematics , for his progress in which he became cele- brated throughout the vicinity of his resi- dence . The ...
... means to obtain information , acquired a love of reading and study . He applied himself closely in his early years to mathematics , for his progress in which he became cele- brated throughout the vicinity of his resi- dence . The ...
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... means had been taken to enclose the water on the out- " Roguery of our Ancestors . - An Irishman , telling what he called an excellent story , a gentleman observed , he had met with it in a book published many years ago . " Con- found ...
... means had been taken to enclose the water on the out- " Roguery of our Ancestors . - An Irishman , telling what he called an excellent story , a gentleman observed , he had met with it in a book published many years ago . " Con- found ...
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... means of growth required by plants , we shall find that they are all present in the glass case ; -such as the soil , for the roots to expand in , warmth and light ; the two latter of which readily penetrate the glass . Moisture is ...
... means of growth required by plants , we shall find that they are all present in the glass case ; -such as the soil , for the roots to expand in , warmth and light ; the two latter of which readily penetrate the glass . Moisture is ...
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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!