The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Band 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... England with hosts of lawyers , and consequently , by their exertions in the way of trade , with hosts of plaintiffs and defendants . Some have thought that laws may be whimsically compared to nut - crackers , whilst they crush to atoms ...
... England with hosts of lawyers , and consequently , by their exertions in the way of trade , with hosts of plaintiffs and defendants . Some have thought that laws may be whimsically compared to nut - crackers , whilst they crush to atoms ...
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... England . He lived to the age of 80 , and died in poverty . Benjamin Robins was the son of a tailor , of Bath ; he compiled Lord An - ̧ son's Voyage , and had great know- ledge in naval tactics . The first man who suggested the idea of ...
... England . He lived to the age of 80 , and died in poverty . Benjamin Robins was the son of a tailor , of Bath ; he compiled Lord An - ̧ son's Voyage , and had great know- ledge in naval tactics . The first man who suggested the idea of ...
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... England's chi- valry- The rich - plum'd canopy - the gorgeous pall- The sacred march -- and sable - vested wall- These were not rites of inexpressive show , But hallow'd as the types of real woe . Daughter of England ! for a nation's ...
... England's chi- valry- The rich - plum'd canopy - the gorgeous pall- The sacred march -- and sable - vested wall- These were not rites of inexpressive show , But hallow'd as the types of real woe . Daughter of England ! for a nation's ...
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... England ; leaving her clear of the world , with a fortune - of seven pounds and a few shillings . " The poor girl , then a mother , ap- plied to her relations : they were at first kind , then civil , then cold , then rude , and finally ...
... England ; leaving her clear of the world , with a fortune - of seven pounds and a few shillings . " The poor girl , then a mother , ap- plied to her relations : they were at first kind , then civil , then cold , then rude , and finally ...
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... England . were roasted ap- ples ; and in a conversation with George II . he took the liberty of preferring the Moon of Naples to the Sun of England . CHINESE WOMEN . - The idolators of beauty , the Chinese , are for ever at the feet of ...
... England . were roasted ap- ples ; and in a conversation with George II . he took the liberty of preferring the Moon of Naples to the Sun of England . CHINESE WOMEN . - The idolators of beauty , the Chinese , are for ever at the feet of ...
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Seite 87 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Seite 191 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Seite 289 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Seite 303 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 261 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Seite 357 - Ye* ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose dice were human bones?
Seite 153 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Seite 418 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Seite 220 - Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary.
Seite 152 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...