The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... epigram , and last stanza of a poem , as well as the last hint of a moral , from Æsop to Franklin : so , pre- cisely so , appears the last and most prominent character of our bristly per- sonage ; a character of inestimable va- lue in ...
... epigram , and last stanza of a poem , as well as the last hint of a moral , from Æsop to Franklin : so , pre- cisely so , appears the last and most prominent character of our bristly per- sonage ; a character of inestimable va- lue in ...
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... EPIGRAM . " How very easy ' tis ( cries Tom ) to write ; in- " I find no hardship verses to dite . " " That to believe ( quoth Dick ) we oaths don't need ' em- " The hardship is , for those who have to read ' em ! " According to the ...
... EPIGRAM . " How very easy ' tis ( cries Tom ) to write ; in- " I find no hardship verses to dite . " " That to believe ( quoth Dick ) we oaths don't need ' em- " The hardship is , for those who have to read ' em ! " According to the ...
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... EPIGRAM . As lately a sage on fine ham was re- pasting , ( Though for breakfast too savoury , I ween , ) He exclaim'd to a friend , who sat silent and fasting , " What a breakfast of learning is mine ! " " A breakfast of learning ...
... EPIGRAM . As lately a sage on fine ham was re- pasting , ( Though for breakfast too savoury , I ween , ) He exclaim'd to a friend , who sat silent and fasting , " What a breakfast of learning is mine ! " " A breakfast of learning ...
Página 191
... all left to their choice whether to burn or skin . " What will the bene- volent Mr. R. Martin , who got a bill passed to prevent cruelty to animals , say to this ? EPIGRAM . To an ignorant priest , quoth his prelate THE MIRROR . 191.
... all left to their choice whether to burn or skin . " What will the bene- volent Mr. R. Martin , who got a bill passed to prevent cruelty to animals , say to this ? EPIGRAM . To an ignorant priest , quoth his prelate THE MIRROR . 191.
Página 192
... EPIGRAM . To an ignorant priest , quoth his prelate severe , " Away with such blockheads ! -Fool , what dost thou here ? " What an ass of a Bishop in orders put thee ? " " Your Lordship , " said Hodge , with a - humble congee . ROYAL ...
... EPIGRAM . To an ignorant priest , quoth his prelate severe , " Away with such blockheads ! -Fool , what dost thou here ? " What an ass of a Bishop in orders put thee ? " " Your Lordship , " said Hodge , with a - humble congee . ROYAL ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...