The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen 21J. 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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... body is as good as defunct . Not that there were many resign'd at the end of the review , as his Lordship gave a grand dinner on the following day to the troop ; but I am sorry to say , a great many was so unhandsome as to throw up the ...
... body is as good as defunct . Not that there were many resign'd at the end of the review , as his Lordship gave a grand dinner on the following day to the troop ; but I am sorry to say , a great many was so unhandsome as to throw up the ...
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... body ; of a countenance rather pleasing than beautiful : tall and well made ; her complexion fine , though rather dark ; her eyes beautiful ; and , above all , her hands , which she did not conceal . " She is described by some as ...
... body ; of a countenance rather pleasing than beautiful : tall and well made ; her complexion fine , though rather dark ; her eyes beautiful ; and , above all , her hands , which she did not conceal . " She is described by some as ...
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... body , quite fit to contain six portly persons and suspended by long leather braces , affixed to nearly upright springs . To enable the body to hang low , the perch of a bent form , called the compass perch , was used , and the car ...
... body , quite fit to contain six portly persons and suspended by long leather braces , affixed to nearly upright springs . To enable the body to hang low , the perch of a bent form , called the compass perch , was used , and the car ...
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... body to Stirling , to seize Spence , and hang him ; then to offer their services to the king , as his natural counsellors ; upon which the Lord Gray observed - It is well said , but who will bell the cat ? -alluding to the fable of the ...
... body to Stirling , to seize Spence , and hang him ; then to offer their services to the king , as his natural counsellors ; upon which the Lord Gray observed - It is well said , but who will bell the cat ? -alluding to the fable of the ...
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... body of the church ; some beautiful speci- mens are extant in Italy , but it does not ap- pear that any building devoted expressly to Great Britain . the purpose of baptism , was ever erected in In ancient churches , the Fonts were ...
... body of the church ; some beautiful speci- mens are extant in Italy , but it does not ap- pear that any building devoted expressly to Great Britain . the purpose of baptism , was ever erected in In ancient churches , the Fonts were ...
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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.