The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 17J. Limbird, 1831 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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... volume , and turn over their leaves until they almost become new acquaintance : some of their columns point to current events , and thus by a little aid of me- mory , make an outline chronology of the half - year ; and , above all , if ...
... volume , and turn over their leaves until they almost become new acquaintance : some of their columns point to current events , and thus by a little aid of me- mory , make an outline chronology of the half - year ; and , above all , if ...
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... volume still more So. Our Correspondents only enjoy the reward of seeing their papers in print : esto perpetua is ... volumes number seventeen . If we continue to partake as largely of the gale of public favour as hitherto , we shall not ...
... volume still more So. Our Correspondents only enjoy the reward of seeing their papers in print : esto perpetua is ... volumes number seventeen . If we continue to partake as largely of the gale of public favour as hitherto , we shall not ...
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... volume of the Poet's Life . Meanwhile , let us add the following graceful paper from the Athenæum , June 12 , 1830 : the subject harmonizes most happily with the clas- sic title of that journal . It will be per- ceived that the tourist ...
... volume of the Poet's Life . Meanwhile , let us add the following graceful paper from the Athenæum , June 12 , 1830 : the subject harmonizes most happily with the clas- sic title of that journal . It will be per- ceived that the tourist ...
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... volume , the dean no doubt evinces considerable learning , but , compared to Bunyan , may rank with the dullest of all possible doc tors ; a worthy neighbour , indeed , and a marvellous good bowler - but for Alex- ander , you see how ...
... volume , the dean no doubt evinces considerable learning , but , compared to Bunyan , may rank with the dullest of all possible doc tors ; a worthy neighbour , indeed , and a marvellous good bowler - but for Alex- ander , you see how ...
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... volume commences with the fol- lowing powerful review of Lord Byron's mind and fortune at the time he left England : - The circumstances under which Lord Byron now took leave of England " were such as , in the case of any ordi- nary ...
... volume commences with the fol- lowing powerful review of Lord Byron's mind and fortune at the time he left England : - The circumstances under which Lord Byron now took leave of England " were such as , in the case of any ordi- nary ...
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Page 167 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 415 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 305 - Book may be used ; only instead of these words [We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, <fe.] say, \\7~E therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Page 96 - An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Page 77 - ... neither the music of the Shepherd, the crashing of the Avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the Glacier, the Forest, nor the Cloud, have for one moment lightened the weight upon my heart, nor enabled me to lose my own wretched identity in the majesty, and the power, and the Glory, around, above, and beneath me.
Page iii - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Page 384 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Page 229 - Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Page 26 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', ig cattle,) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence ; — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a...
Page 89 - To-morrow is my birth-day — that is to say, at twelve o' the clock, midnight, ie in twelve minutes, I shall have completed thirty and three years of age ! ! ! — and I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart at having lived so long, and to so little purpose. " It is three minutes past twelve. — - ' 'Tis the VOL. v. G NOTICES OF THE 1821. middle of night by the castle clock...