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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... never be in terror of the breaking of springs , axle- trees , or the falling of horses , or the bursting of steam - boilers , as it has neither . Secondly - I have invented a plan for crossing channels , rivers , & c . in a direct ...
... never be in terror of the breaking of springs , axle- trees , or the falling of horses , or the bursting of steam - boilers , as it has neither . Secondly - I have invented a plan for crossing channels , rivers , & c . in a direct ...
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... never felt one moment's care after that : I knew that she could not have smiled , had she anticipated any very terrible álteration . At length I was able to rise - to move from one chamber to another , and , at last , to see François ...
... never felt one moment's care after that : I knew that she could not have smiled , had she anticipated any very terrible álteration . At length I was able to rise - to move from one chamber to another , and , at last , to see François ...
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... never before reflected on them . What was this peace ? I felt that it was the peace of hope , as well as of rest . It was not only that the turmoil of this feverish life was at an end , but that such end was only the beginning . I saw ...
... never before reflected on them . What was this peace ? I felt that it was the peace of hope , as well as of rest . It was not only that the turmoil of this feverish life was at an end , but that such end was only the beginning . I saw ...
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... never to had two piercing eyes , a countenance of cada verous paleness ; his bones seemed ready to burst through a skin as dry as parchment ; his brows were thick and beetling , and a long , white beard hung in wild disorder be- low his ...
... never to had two piercing eyes , a countenance of cada verous paleness ; his bones seemed ready to burst through a skin as dry as parchment ; his brows were thick and beetling , and a long , white beard hung in wild disorder be- low his ...
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... never , we hope , to return , this tower , OF CHARLES WATERTON , ESQ . - BY JAMES STUART MENTEATH , ESQ . , OF CLOSEBURN HALL . * " The birds , • Securely there they build , and there Securely hatch their young . " WALTON HALL , a place ...
... never , we hope , to return , this tower , OF CHARLES WATERTON , ESQ . - BY JAMES STUART MENTEATH , ESQ . , OF CLOSEBURN HALL . * " The birds , • Securely there they build , and there Securely hatch their young . " WALTON HALL , a place ...
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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.