The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, 1. köideJ. Limbird, 1823 |
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... heart hot as Etna , Has cut through the knot by post horses and Gretna . One says the church notice must not be a scrawl ; One says there is no need of notice at all ; A third swears it must be in black and in white ; A fourth hints ...
... heart hot as Etna , Has cut through the knot by post horses and Gretna . One says the church notice must not be a scrawl ; One says there is no need of notice at all ; A third swears it must be in black and in white ; A fourth hints ...
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... heart of Miss Dighton While driving a dennet from Worthing to Brighton . Her West - India fortune his hot bosom stirs , His cap and mustachios are too much for hers .. They married : the Captain was count- ing his gain , When sugar and ...
... heart of Miss Dighton While driving a dennet from Worthing to Brighton . Her West - India fortune his hot bosom stirs , His cap and mustachios are too much for hers .. They married : the Captain was count- ing his gain , When sugar and ...
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... heart - kind and therefore glad -be any part of sanctity , then might the robe of Motley , with which he in- vested ... hearts yet respond to the chuckling O la ! of Dicky Suett , brought back to their remembrance by the faithful ...
... heart - kind and therefore glad -be any part of sanctity , then might the robe of Motley , with which he in- vested ... hearts yet respond to the chuckling O la ! of Dicky Suett , brought back to their remembrance by the faithful ...
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... heart is capable . The speeches of Mr. Wilberforce , Mr. Fox , and Mr. Pitt , appeared so insuperable , that it was imagined the question would have been carried by acclamation . Eighty- five persons were only found to vote against the ...
... heart is capable . The speeches of Mr. Wilberforce , Mr. Fox , and Mr. Pitt , appeared so insuperable , that it was imagined the question would have been carried by acclamation . Eighty- five persons were only found to vote against the ...
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... heart , in- deed , sir . -He fell on his head , and has been delirious ever since - and the physicians have no hopes that he will recover the use of his reason- Oh ! I recollect , he rode against somebody . - Play a spade , if you ...
... heart , in- deed , sir . -He fell on his head , and has been delirious ever since - and the physicians have no hopes that he will recover the use of his reason- Oh ! I recollect , he rode against somebody . - Play a spade , if you ...
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Page 87 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 191 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Page 289 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 303 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 261 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 357 - Ye* ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose dice were human bones?
Page 153 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 418 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Page 220 - Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary.
Page 152 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...