The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Band 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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... horse was allowed one shilling and eightpence a - week for his board , his wages being four pounds a - year . The hen - taker was , however , better paid ; as he received two pounds , five shillings , and sevenpence a quarter . The ...
... horse was allowed one shilling and eightpence a - week for his board , his wages being four pounds a - year . The hen - taker was , however , better paid ; as he received two pounds , five shillings , and sevenpence a quarter . The ...
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... Horse , has a Political Union club meets at his house , and when he came to unfurl , he had brought the wrong flag : -instead of " Royal Bumper Daggle , ' it was " No Boromongers . " It made a reg . lar horse laugh among the cavalry ...
... Horse , has a Political Union club meets at his house , and when he came to unfurl , he had brought the wrong flag : -instead of " Royal Bumper Daggle , ' it was " No Boromongers . " It made a reg . lar horse laugh among the cavalry ...
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... horse rode particularly restive , and objected in such critical weather to a long review . He wouldn't be cholora morbus'd , he said , for Duke or Devil , but should put his horse up and go home by the blue Stage ; by way of answer he ...
... horse rode particularly restive , and objected in such critical weather to a long review . He wouldn't be cholora morbus'd , he said , for Duke or Devil , but should put his horse up and go home by the blue Stage ; by way of answer he ...
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... horse has taken to kick . We have hardly a bushel of small , And now coal is extravagant dear ; Your great coat is stole out of the hall- But I wish you a happy New Year ! The whole green - house is smash'd by the hail , And the plants ...
... horse has taken to kick . We have hardly a bushel of small , And now coal is extravagant dear ; Your great coat is stole out of the hall- But I wish you a happy New Year ! The whole green - house is smash'd by the hail , And the plants ...
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... Horse and Carriage Oracle , " by John Jervis , an old coachman , ' as pegs whereon to hang the reviewer's facts and ... horses till he could flog them no longer . We think we see them crawling up the hill in Shrewsbury town- whip , whip ...
... Horse and Carriage Oracle , " by John Jervis , an old coachman , ' as pegs whereon to hang the reviewer's facts and ... horses till he could flog them no longer . We think we see them crawling up the hill in Shrewsbury town- whip , whip ...
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Seite 126 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent...
Seite 184 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Seite 224 - •Sir, — I have two silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol : this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, JOHN WESLEY/' Perhaps there never was a more charitable man than Mr.
Seite 249 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs...
Seite 204 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Seite 139 - And Wordsworth, in a rather long " Excursion " (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version • Of his new system to perplex the sages; ' 'Tis poetry — at least by his assertion.
Seite 431 - Venus, a pea on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
Seite 280 - It were better for, him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.