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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... young and strapping Scotch pedlar , Simon Frazer by name , who travelled the country with muslins and cottons , and for whom certain malicious gossips asserted both ladies to entertain a lacking pen- chant , and whose insensibility ...
... young and strapping Scotch pedlar , Simon Frazer by name , who travelled the country with muslins and cottons , and for whom certain malicious gossips asserted both ladies to entertain a lacking pen- chant , and whose insensibility ...
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... young folks were still dancing gaily , to the sound of Timothy's fiddle , which fiddle had the good quality of going on almost as well drunk as sober , and it was now playing solo , the clarionet being hors - de- combat , and the ...
... young folks were still dancing gaily , to the sound of Timothy's fiddle , which fiddle had the good quality of going on almost as well drunk as sober , and it was now playing solo , the clarionet being hors - de- combat , and the ...
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... Young Hope's fond flatteries , -whispering all would last ; But winged with pleasures , fresh , and fair , and new , How soon pale Autumn , like a dying friend , Engendering solemn thoughts of life's decay , Would come , and - withering ...
... Young Hope's fond flatteries , -whispering all would last ; But winged with pleasures , fresh , and fair , and new , How soon pale Autumn , like a dying friend , Engendering solemn thoughts of life's decay , Would come , and - withering ...
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... young and feeling heart ! He is reproved by parental wisdom - laughed at by his com- panions and scorned by the object of his adoration ! And with a heart " already stabbed by a white wench's black eye , " he goes to the field of battle ...
... young and feeling heart ! He is reproved by parental wisdom - laughed at by his com- panions and scorned by the object of his adoration ! And with a heart " already stabbed by a white wench's black eye , " he goes to the field of battle ...
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... Young , both the ancients and moderns , in seeking the summum bonum , have been unsuccessful ; it was not discovered by man , but revealed from heaven at last . SPIDERS . F.R. Y. ( To the Editor of the Mirror . ) SIR , -Perhaps the ...
... Young , both the ancients and moderns , in seeking the summum bonum , have been unsuccessful ; it was not discovered by man , but revealed from heaven at last . SPIDERS . F.R. Y. ( To the Editor of the Mirror . ) SIR , -Perhaps the ...
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