The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 17J. Limbird, 1831 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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... tree on which it grows . Save the country , that you may continue to adorn it— save the crown , which is threatened with irreparable injury - save the aristo- cracy , which is surrounded with danger - save the altar , which is no longer ...
... tree on which it grows . Save the country , that you may continue to adorn it— save the crown , which is threatened with irreparable injury - save the aristo- cracy , which is surrounded with danger - save the altar , which is no longer ...
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... tree which bears his lady's name With bis melodious tears , he gave himself to faine . They keep his dust in Arquà , where he died ; The mountain - village where his latter days 469 bequest to poor Boccaccio of " five hun- dred florins.
... tree which bears his lady's name With bis melodious tears , he gave himself to faine . They keep his dust in Arquà , where he died ; The mountain - village where his latter days 469 bequest to poor Boccaccio of " five hun- dred florins.
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... trees , and every sunny fruit shrub . From the banks of the lake the road winds into the hills , and the church of Arquà is soon seen between a cleft where two ridges slope towards each other , and nearly inclose the village . The ...
... trees , and every sunny fruit shrub . From the banks of the lake the road winds into the hills , and the church of Arquà is soon seen between a cleft where two ridges slope towards each other , and nearly inclose the village . The ...
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... trees in abundance , vines in the luxuriance of nature , and pomegra- nates growing in hedges . The situa- tion of the little village is perfectly de- lightful - of Petrarch's villa , beautiful . The apartments he occupied command the ...
... trees in abundance , vines in the luxuriance of nature , and pomegra- nates growing in hedges . The situa- tion of the little village is perfectly de- lightful - of Petrarch's villa , beautiful . The apartments he occupied command the ...
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... tree of some other men's fancy bears fruit at the rate of a pint of apples to a peck of crabs ; whereas the tree of the great magician bears the sweetest fruit - large and red - cheeked - fair to look upon , and right pleasant to the ...
... tree of some other men's fancy bears fruit at the rate of a pint of apples to a peck of crabs ; whereas the tree of the great magician bears the sweetest fruit - large and red - cheeked - fair to look upon , and right pleasant to the ...
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afterwards Amposta AMUSEMENT ancient appearance bald eagle beautiful birds Blackwood's Magazine Brougham called Castle character church colour Corfe Castle court croak death delight Duke earth Edward III England English Engraving eyes feel feet Flint Castle hand head heard heart Henry Henry VIII honour hope horse hour King lady land late letter light living London look Lord Brougham Lord Byron Madame de Genlis ment miles mind Mirror morning nature never night noble o'er observed once parliament passed person Petrarch Pitcairn's Island poet Poland poor present prince Queen racter reader reign river round scene seen sent SHAKSPEARE side Somerset House soon sound spirit stand Swansea thee thing thou thought tion town tree Venice voice whole words young
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Página 167 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 415 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 305 - Book may be used ; only instead of these words [We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, <fe.] say, \\7~E therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Página 96 - An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Página 77 - ... neither the music of the Shepherd, the crashing of the Avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the Glacier, the Forest, nor the Cloud, have for one moment lightened the weight upon my heart, nor enabled me to lose my own wretched identity in the majesty, and the power, and the Glory, around, above, and beneath me.
Página iii - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Página 384 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Página 229 - Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Página 26 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', ig cattle,) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence ; — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a...
Página 89 - To-morrow is my birth-day — that is to say, at twelve o' the clock, midnight, ie in twelve minutes, I shall have completed thirty and three years of age ! ! ! — and I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart at having lived so long, and to so little purpose. " It is three minutes past twelve. — - ' 'Tis the VOL. v. G NOTICES OF THE 1821. middle of night by the castle clock...