The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Band 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... lady , in the doubtful time of life , between a young woman and an old maid , who had waited , and watched , and wished , and longed , and survived two or three disappointments , until Patience was just ready to be sent about his ...
... lady , in the doubtful time of life , between a young woman and an old maid , who had waited , and watched , and wished , and longed , and survived two or three disappointments , until Patience was just ready to be sent about his ...
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... Lady's Magazine . Miscellanies . MARRIAGES OF THE PERSIANS . The mode of matrimonial courtships in Persia does not allow the eyes of the parties to direct their choice till they are mutually pledged to each other . An elderly female is ...
... Lady's Magazine . Miscellanies . MARRIAGES OF THE PERSIANS . The mode of matrimonial courtships in Persia does not allow the eyes of the parties to direct their choice till they are mutually pledged to each other . An elderly female is ...
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... Lady , who died a few days ago , at the age of 98 , may render a few faint sketches of her cha- racter not uninteresting . Her " ruling passion " was to consider all dramatic effort as trifling when compared with Garrick . He was indeed ...
... Lady , who died a few days ago , at the age of 98 , may render a few faint sketches of her cha- racter not uninteresting . Her " ruling passion " was to consider all dramatic effort as trifling when compared with Garrick . He was indeed ...
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... lady , it is said , visit- ed Westminster Abbey about month ago , and , addressing the clergy- man who attended her , she said , I suppose there is not room enough for me to be laid by the side of my dear David . " The Clergyman assured ...
... lady , it is said , visit- ed Westminster Abbey about month ago , and , addressing the clergy- man who attended her , she said , I suppose there is not room enough for me to be laid by the side of my dear David . " The Clergyman assured ...
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... lady's head - dress . It has no fin on the back , but a bone like that of the human species . Its breasts are fair and full ; the arms and hands are well proportioned , but without nails on the fingers ; the belly is round and swell ...
... lady's head - dress . It has no fin on the back , but a bone like that of the human species . Its breasts are fair and full ; the arms and hands are well proportioned , but without nails on the fingers ; the belly is round and swell ...
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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...