The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 38J. Limbird, 1841 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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... Tower . - The annual number of visi- tors to the Armory has risen from 10,200 in 1836 , at 2s . fee each , to 40,000 in 1838 , at 1s .; to 84,000 in 1839 , at 6d .; and in 1840 , to 94,973 , ( exclusive of 3,184 by or- ders from the ...
... Tower . - The annual number of visi- tors to the Armory has risen from 10,200 in 1836 , at 2s . fee each , to 40,000 in 1838 , at 1s .; to 84,000 in 1839 , at 6d .; and in 1840 , to 94,973 , ( exclusive of 3,184 by or- ders from the ...
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... tower , With a staghound by him lying ; His limbs were stout , and his form was hale , Yet his eye was dim and his cheek was pale , For the Warden lay a - dying . There , save his dog , he was all alone , And none could list to his ...
... tower , With a staghound by him lying ; His limbs were stout , and his form was hale , Yet his eye was dim and his cheek was pale , For the Warden lay a - dying . There , save his dog , he was all alone , And none could list to his ...
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... tower blazed high with a fiendish light , Yet soon as silvery morning broke , Nor flame was seen , nor wreathing smoke ; And how , within the spectral tower , Were drops still seen of a blood - red shower That sprang from out the ...
... tower blazed high with a fiendish light , Yet soon as silvery morning broke , Nor flame was seen , nor wreathing smoke ; And how , within the spectral tower , Were drops still seen of a blood - red shower That sprang from out the ...
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... towers and donjons of the old baronial castle , perched , like an eagle's nest , on the most accessible point of rock overhanging the village , the winding approach up the mountain half hid with brushwood , every- thing transports one ...
... towers and donjons of the old baronial castle , perched , like an eagle's nest , on the most accessible point of rock overhanging the village , the winding approach up the mountain half hid with brushwood , every- thing transports one ...
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... tower , Uproots the tree , and snaps the flower ; And sweeps from our distracted breast The friends that loved , the friends that bless'd ; And leaves us weeping on the shore , To which they can return no more . Time speeds away - away ...
... tower , Uproots the tree , and snaps the flower ; And sweeps from our distracted breast The friends that loved , the friends that bless'd ; And leaves us weeping on the shore , To which they can return no more . Time speeds away - away ...
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Abbot afterwards AMUSEMENT ancient animal appearance beautiful called cause cried dear death delight earth effect Egypt English Enna eyes father Fawkes fear feeling feet Feuilleton fire Forton fortune French FRENCH LITERATURE give glacier guerite Guy Fawkes hand happy head heart heaven honour hour human husband Jewel Tower lady land letter light lived London look Lord Lucelle Madame Chambel Madame de Morency manner Marguerite ment mind mistletoe morning Mount Etna mountain nature never night Paris passed person Petrarch play poor possessed present racter Ratisbon readers remarkable Romauld round Saint Winifred says scene seems seen shew side smile Socrates soon speak species spirit tell thee thou thought tion told Tower Tower of London truth voice wife wish woman words young
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Página 13 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 50 The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 76 - 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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 218 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Página 35 - IN the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappaan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail, and implored the protection of St.
Página 230 - Just Disposer of our joys and sorrows, cried I, why could not a man sit down in the lap of content here, — and dance, and sing, and say his prayers, and go to Heaven with this nut-brown maid ? Capriciously did she bend her head on one side, and dance up insidious. — Then 'tis time to dance off...
Página 35 - Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it for the sake of being precise and authentic. Not far from this village, perhaps about...
Página 36 - However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
Página 217 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 36 - ... undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom. In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, " tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose...
Página 62 - It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange.