The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, 17. köideJ. Limbird, 1831 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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... rounded . A careful observer will see clearly that imposing forms are per- * Metropolitan , edited by T. Campbell , Esq .-- No . 1 . fectly agreeable to his mind ; nobody could ridicule form xii MEMOIR OF LORD BROUGHAM .
... rounded . A careful observer will see clearly that imposing forms are per- * Metropolitan , edited by T. Campbell , Esq .-- No . 1 . fectly agreeable to his mind ; nobody could ridicule form xii MEMOIR OF LORD BROUGHAM .
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... round the garden , which , situated at the head of the valley , is shut in by the hills - itself a wilderness of luxuriance and beauty . It was a glorious evening , and every thing in agreement with our quiet feeling . I am not an ...
... round the garden , which , situated at the head of the valley , is shut in by the hills - itself a wilderness of luxuriance and beauty . It was a glorious evening , and every thing in agreement with our quiet feeling . I am not an ...
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... round the tin mines , contracted to purchase as much of it as could be supplied , and continued to gain by Cornish ignorance for a considerable time . The first dis- coverer of the ore was called Poder ( it long went by his name ) , who ...
... round the tin mines , contracted to purchase as much of it as could be supplied , and continued to gain by Cornish ignorance for a considerable time . The first dis- coverer of the ore was called Poder ( it long went by his name ) , who ...
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... round the Wrekin . " LINCOLNSHIRE . - STAMFORD . Doctrinæ studium , quod nunc viguet ad vada Boum Tempore venturo celebrabitur að vada Saxi . Science that now o'er Oxford sheds her ray Shall bless fair Stamford at some future day ...
... round the Wrekin . " LINCOLNSHIRE . - STAMFORD . Doctrinæ studium , quod nunc viguet ad vada Boum Tempore venturo celebrabitur að vada Saxi . Science that now o'er Oxford sheds her ray Shall bless fair Stamford at some future day ...
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... round have a propor- tionally longer credit ; the time allowed for payment may be stated generally at from fourteen to twenty - eight days . Within the limits of the chief office the duties on candles are paid weekly ; but those on soap ...
... round have a propor- tionally longer credit ; the time allowed for payment may be stated generally at from fourteen to twenty - eight days . Within the limits of the chief office the duties on candles are paid weekly ; but those on soap ...
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Page 167 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 415 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 305 - Book may be used ; only instead of these words [We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, <fe.] say, \\7~E therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Page 96 - An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Page 77 - ... neither the music of the Shepherd, the crashing of the Avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the Glacier, the Forest, nor the Cloud, have for one moment lightened the weight upon my heart, nor enabled me to lose my own wretched identity in the majesty, and the power, and the Glory, around, above, and beneath me.
Page iii - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Page 384 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Page 229 - Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Page 26 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', ig cattle,) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence ; — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a...
Page 89 - To-morrow is my birth-day — that is to say, at twelve o' the clock, midnight, ie in twelve minutes, I shall have completed thirty and three years of age ! ! ! — and I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart at having lived so long, and to so little purpose. " It is three minutes past twelve. — - ' 'Tis the VOL. v. G NOTICES OF THE 1821. middle of night by the castle clock...