The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen21J. Limbird, 1833 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 on his boyish imagination ; set him pondering all the day on the grand millennium , and dreaming all night " of a new heaven and a new earth , the stars in horror , and the world in flames ! " Yet at this time he could read only ...
... effect on his boyish imagination ; set him pondering all the day on the grand millennium , and dreaming all night " of a new heaven and a new earth , the stars in horror , and the world in flames ! " Yet at this time he could read only ...
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... effect , are not equalled by Anne Radcliffe . But for power in the terrible and sublime , there are few things , in ... effects . Wandering Willie's Tale is scarcely more magical , mystical , and unearthly . When George IV . visited ...
... effect , are not equalled by Anne Radcliffe . But for power in the terrible and sublime , there are few things , in ... effects . Wandering Willie's Tale is scarcely more magical , mystical , and unearthly . When George IV . visited ...
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... effect . The attic is likewise of the most appropriate introduc- tion . The mouldings and other enrichments of the principal story are of the most pleasing character : among the former , the favourite echinus is prominent . The interior ...
... effect . The attic is likewise of the most appropriate introduc- tion . The mouldings and other enrichments of the principal story are of the most pleasing character : among the former , the favourite echinus is prominent . The interior ...
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... effects of fashion- able manners upon tradesmen and servants , in which paper , by the way , John Jones the rhyming butler , may have assisted the writer in gratitude for the reviewer's laudatory criti- cism : and , lo , now we have a ...
... effects of fashion- able manners upon tradesmen and servants , in which paper , by the way , John Jones the rhyming butler , may have assisted the writer in gratitude for the reviewer's laudatory criti- cism : and , lo , now we have a ...
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... effect of this is visible in two ways- first , it is surprising to see how soon horses gather flesh in this severe work - for there is none more severe whilst it lasts ; and , second- ly , proprietors find that good flesh is no ob ...
... effect of this is visible in two ways- first , it is surprising to see how soon horses gather flesh in this severe work - for there is none more severe whilst it lasts ; and , second- ly , proprietors find that good flesh is no ob ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 126 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent...
Página 184 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Página 224 - •Sir, — I have two silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol : this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, JOHN WESLEY/' Perhaps there never was a more charitable man than Mr.
Página 249 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs...
Página 204 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Página 139 - And Wordsworth, in a rather long " Excursion " (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version • Of his new system to perplex the sages; ' 'Tis poetry — at least by his assertion.
Página 431 - Venus, a pea on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
Página 280 - It were better for, him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Página 160 - you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.' 'I don't know how great men you may be,' said the Guinea man, ' but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Página 304 - What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.