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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... wood , Haunts of my early days , and still loved well : Bloom not your sisters fair in Locksley's dell ? And where the sun , o'er purpled moorlands wide , Gilds Wharncliffe's oaks , while Don is dark below ? And where the blackbird ...
... wood , Haunts of my early days , and still loved well : Bloom not your sisters fair in Locksley's dell ? And where the sun , o'er purpled moorlands wide , Gilds Wharncliffe's oaks , while Don is dark below ? And where the blackbird ...
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... wood - work which originally formed its roof . From the present appearance of the Hall , many have been led to conclude , that the ceil- ing is not perfect , but that originally it was continued at each end to a greater extent . That ...
... wood - work which originally formed its roof . From the present appearance of the Hall , many have been led to conclude , that the ceil- ing is not perfect , but that originally it was continued at each end to a greater extent . That ...
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... woods , and howls through the trees in gigantic harmonies . Von Os . - With now and then a double diapason in the chimney ... wood , lit on the handle of my spade , while I was eating my bread and cheese ; this I chanced to catch , and ...
... woods , and howls through the trees in gigantic harmonies . Von Os . - With now and then a double diapason in the chimney ... wood , lit on the handle of my spade , while I was eating my bread and cheese ; this I chanced to catch , and ...
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... woods ! Manners and Customs . AMULETS . Or all the superstitions which were dissemi- nated in olden times , none appear to have gained more influence over the minds of the people than a belief in the virtue of Amulets . In the record of ...
... woods ! Manners and Customs . AMULETS . Or all the superstitions which were dissemi- nated in olden times , none appear to have gained more influence over the minds of the people than a belief in the virtue of Amulets . In the record of ...
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... woods and waters equal to the romance of the human heart ? And here , too , Asmodeus , what scope for enterprise - that life of life ! What variety -what incident ! Verily , the knight - errant of old knew not half the adventures that ...
... woods and waters equal to the romance of the human heart ? And here , too , Asmodeus , what scope for enterprise - that life of life ! What variety -what incident ! Verily , the knight - errant of old knew not half the adventures that ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Alroy AMUSEMENT ancient Anne Boleyn appears Asmodeus beautiful bell birds Bishop body called Carausius chalybeate church colour court curious daughter death door earth England Engraving Epping Forest Epsom eyes father feeling feet Ferdinand Faithful fire flowers forest gardens gave ground Hall hand head heard heart Henry St Henry VIII honour horse hour Husborn Jews John John Soane king labour Lady land larva larvæ late light lived London look Lord Mantua master ment Merrivale miles mind morning nature never night o'er observed passed Pellico persons PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL present Queen reign replied Saxon says scene Schinderhannes seemed seen side Silvio Pellico Sir Thomas Somerset House spirit stone thee thing thou thought tion took town trees Uruana village Vivano walk walls whole wood young
Pasajes populares
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.