The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 9J. Limbird, 1827 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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... side her , and even lending a friendly hoist to the lame ostler ; after which he drove off , with a knowing nod , in total silence ; being thereunto prompted partly by his wife's intreaties , partly by a sound more powerful over his ...
... side her , and even lending a friendly hoist to the lame ostler ; after which he drove off , with a knowing nod , in total silence ; being thereunto prompted partly by his wife's intreaties , partly by a sound more powerful over his ...
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... sides ; such a one as would have done honour to a more polished society . They dealt with each other , curtsied to each ... side , there could be no great wonder at the continu- ance of this animosity ; how it began was still undecided ...
... sides ; such a one as would have done honour to a more polished society . They dealt with each other , curtsied to each ... side , there could be no great wonder at the continu- ance of this animosity ; how it began was still undecided ...
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... side than usual , and assented without a word ; and with the same facility did he relinquish the bough of mistletoe , which he had purposed to suspend from the bacon - rack - the ancient mistletoe bough , on passing under which our ...
... side than usual , and assented without a word ; and with the same facility did he relinquish the bough of mistletoe , which he had purposed to suspend from the bacon - rack - the ancient mistletoe bough , on passing under which our ...
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... side by tremendous precipices . The entrances to the harbour are ex- tremely narrow ; the east is the safest , although with a north - west wind , ( which blocks both the east and west passages , ) the sea breaks right across . The ...
... side by tremendous precipices . The entrances to the harbour are ex- tremely narrow ; the east is the safest , although with a north - west wind , ( which blocks both the east and west passages , ) the sea breaks right across . The ...
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... side ; His youthful hose well saved , a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big , manly voice , Turning again towards childish treble , pipes And whistles in the sound . " Little more can be added to this . He now lives upon a ...
... side ; His youthful hose well saved , a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big , manly voice , Turning again towards childish treble , pipes And whistles in the sound . " Little more can be added to this . He now lives upon a ...
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