The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 25J. Limbird, 1835 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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... beautiful . " His character , according to Coleridge , is all that is estimable , and has , for its only enemies , " quacks in education , quacks in politics , and quacks in criticism . " The Ettrick Shepherd says , " Southey is as ...
... beautiful . " His character , according to Coleridge , is all that is estimable , and has , for its only enemies , " quacks in education , quacks in politics , and quacks in criticism . " The Ettrick Shepherd says , " Southey is as ...
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... beautiful object from the Hall . There , the several remains of the ancient and respected family who once inhabited the mansion , have each their monu- mental stone , setting forth the piety , loyalty , and worth , which have been ...
... beautiful object from the Hall . There , the several remains of the ancient and respected family who once inhabited the mansion , have each their monu- mental stone , setting forth the piety , loyalty , and worth , which have been ...
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... beautiful plumaged species of birds ; and numerous other ani- mals , are seen , preserved in such a manner as to give them an appearance of life , which one can see in no other museum of natural history . Among these interesing objects ...
... beautiful plumaged species of birds ; and numerous other ani- mals , are seen , preserved in such a manner as to give them an appearance of life , which one can see in no other museum of natural history . Among these interesing objects ...
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... beautiful river Nidd ; the country around is exceedingly well wooded , and partakes alike of the hilly and woody and flat charac- About a mile and a - half , or two miles distant from Cowthorpe , is Marston Moor , where the great battle ...
... beautiful river Nidd ; the country around is exceedingly well wooded , and partakes alike of the hilly and woody and flat charac- About a mile and a - half , or two miles distant from Cowthorpe , is Marston Moor , where the great battle ...
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... beautiful ruins of Dunbrody Abbey . This splendid relic of the olden time is situated in the barony of Shelbourne , on the banks of the river Barrow , and well repays the traveller for the trouble of visiting its extensive remains : the ...
... beautiful ruins of Dunbrody Abbey . This splendid relic of the olden time is situated in the barony of Shelbourne , on the banks of the river Barrow , and well repays the traveller for the trouble of visiting its extensive remains : the ...
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Página 211 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Página 110 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 65 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 245 - We breakfast commonly between eight and nine ; till eleven, we read either the Scripture, or the sermons of some faithful preacher of those holy mysteries ; at eleven, we attend divine service, which is performed here twice every day ; and from twelve to three we separate, and amuse ourselves as we please.
Página 130 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Página 416 - old clothes' in a plain way as I do now?" The Jew stopped, and looking very gravely at me, said in a clear and even fine accent, " Sir, I can say old clothes as well as you can ; but if you had to say so ten times a minute, for an hour together, you would say Ogh Clo as I do now ;
Página 34 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.— I'll talk to you, lady, but not beat you.
Página 123 - By sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries, ghostly shapes May meet at noontide — FEAR and trembling HOPE, SILENCE and FORESIGHT— DEATH, the skeleton, And TIME, the shadow — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Página 213 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Página 247 - ... ancient family of the Wimbles. He is now between forty and fifty ; but being bred to no business and born to no estate, he generally lives with his elder brother as superintendent of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a may-fly to a miracle, and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.