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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... effect to the well - proportioned room . The style of the composition is pointed , or what is commonly , but improperly , termed Gothic . The handsome window , which de- corates the centre of the elevation externally , lights the school ...
... effect to the well - proportioned room . The style of the composition is pointed , or what is commonly , but improperly , termed Gothic . The handsome window , which de- corates the centre of the elevation externally , lights the school ...
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... effect , for that night my silent cavalier was the only one who ob- tained a second thought . I felt a vague desire to see him again ; I wondered whether he was always so reserved ; I endeavoured to recall the few words which he had ...
... effect , for that night my silent cavalier was the only one who ob- tained a second thought . I felt a vague desire to see him again ; I wondered whether he was always so reserved ; I endeavoured to recall the few words which he had ...
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... effect , in con- trast with the attractions which environ it , will be as much a relief as Père la Chaise is to the frivolities of the gay city near which it is situated . It is , indeed , a wholesome scene of sober meditation and ...
... effect , in con- trast with the attractions which environ it , will be as much a relief as Père la Chaise is to the frivolities of the gay city near which it is situated . It is , indeed , a wholesome scene of sober meditation and ...
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... effect in sunny weather , and the materials of the tombs by no means sadden- ing this effect . The latter are placed with- out order or regularity , according to the taste or means of the relatives of the de- ceased ; and we may add ...
... effect in sunny weather , and the materials of the tombs by no means sadden- ing this effect . The latter are placed with- out order or regularity , according to the taste or means of the relatives of the de- ceased ; and we may add ...
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... effect of a moral chill . We dread the future , unless it comes upon us imperceptibly ; -whenever we anticipate , unless under some strong excite- ment of joy , we always fear . There are so many dangers , so many disappointments , and ...
... effect of a moral chill . We dread the future , unless it comes upon us imperceptibly ; -whenever we anticipate , unless under some strong excite- ment of joy , we always fear . There are so many dangers , so many disappointments , and ...
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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.