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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... manners upon tradesmen and servants , in which paper , by the way , John Jones the rhyming butler , may have assisted ... manner that deserves to be spoken of . The stages are ten and eight , and for these he has a team of bays , a team ...
... manners upon tradesmen and servants , in which paper , by the way , John Jones the rhyming butler , may have assisted ... manner that deserves to be spoken of . The stages are ten and eight , and for these he has a team of bays , a team ...
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... manner . It forms the only communication between the principal and the garden court . The splendid Hall of the Middle Temple has a similar passage still in use , which lately communicated with a suite of chambers . " The Minstrels ...
... manner . It forms the only communication between the principal and the garden court . The splendid Hall of the Middle Temple has a similar passage still in use , which lately communicated with a suite of chambers . " The Minstrels ...
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... Manners who had been but lately created Earl of Rutland , said to Sir Thomas More , " You are so much elated with your preferments , that you verify the old proverb ' Honores mutant Mores . " " " No , my Lord , " said Sir Thomas , piece ...
... Manners who had been but lately created Earl of Rutland , said to Sir Thomas More , " You are so much elated with your preferments , that you verify the old proverb ' Honores mutant Mores . " " " No , my Lord , " said Sir Thomas , piece ...
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... manner of the best street paving . The ter- race over the quadruple colonnade is composed of large slabs of stone , which form at once the floor of the terrace and the ceiling of the colonnade : From the terrace the water is drained ...
... manner of the best street paving . The ter- race over the quadruple colonnade is composed of large slabs of stone , which form at once the floor of the terrace and the ceiling of the colonnade : From the terrace the water is drained ...
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... 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 every ...
... 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 every ...
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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.