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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... turned out a sad melange ; some indications of genius , notwithstanding , peered through the rough , but clouded vigour of the essays , & c . comprising it . This strange stew went down ere its anniversary arrived . Harassed , vexed ...
... turned out a sad melange ; some indications of genius , notwithstanding , peered through the rough , but clouded vigour of the essays , & c . comprising it . This strange stew went down ere its anniversary arrived . Harassed , vexed ...
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... turned round with him at the first start . Simkin fell at the same time insensibly , but the doctor dismounted and was very happy to attend him without making any charge whatever . All the rest went off gallantly , either gallop ing or ...
... turned round with him at the first start . Simkin fell at the same time insensibly , but the doctor dismounted and was very happy to attend him without making any charge whatever . All the rest went off gallantly , either gallop ing or ...
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... turned on the road ! It is now a treat to see her approach the town , if not before , never after her minute . A young man of the name of Taylor , a spirited proprietor , horses her through Shrewsbury , from Hay - Gate to Nes- cliff ...
... turned on the road ! It is now a treat to see her approach the town , if not before , never after her minute . A young man of the name of Taylor , a spirited proprietor , horses her through Shrewsbury , from Hay - Gate to Nes- cliff ...
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... turned . She is now fast , and reckoned one of the saftest in England . round so much oftener than the latter , and also bear more weight , they require to have their fellies fresh wrung about every five weeks ; whereas , the latter ...
... turned . She is now fast , and reckoned one of the saftest in England . round so much oftener than the latter , and also bear more weight , they require to have their fellies fresh wrung about every five weeks ; whereas , the latter ...
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... turned into mourning . Amongst those who came as ambassadors from the neighbouring powers was Sisquo Dumfki , the rat - catcher , from a kingdom on the banks of the majestic Mississippi . This man was the most celebrated drinker of his ...
... turned into mourning . Amongst those who came as ambassadors from the neighbouring powers was Sisquo Dumfki , the rat - catcher , from a kingdom on the banks of the majestic Mississippi . This man was the most celebrated drinker of his ...
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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.