The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 11J. Limbird, 1828 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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... effect produced , not only by the story added to the whole building , but by lowering the surface of the area six , and in some places eight feet . The south and east sides are already com- pleted , and contain three hundred and sixty ...
... effect produced , not only by the story added to the whole building , but by lowering the surface of the area six , and in some places eight feet . The south and east sides are already com- pleted , and contain three hundred and sixty ...
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... effect of which is skilfully heightened by the recessing of the back wall within the general line of the build- ing . The door - way is magnificent . The order generally , and its members sepa- rately , are classical and elegant , and ...
... effect of which is skilfully heightened by the recessing of the back wall within the general line of the build- ing . The door - way is magnificent . The order generally , and its members sepa- rately , are classical and elegant , and ...
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... effect , once having done so , no consideration could induce him to break his promise , or even to evade it . A proof of this occurred shortly afterwards , when an officer of the palace offered him a letter in so secret a manner that he ...
... effect , once having done so , no consideration could induce him to break his promise , or even to evade it . A proof of this occurred shortly afterwards , when an officer of the palace offered him a letter in so secret a manner that he ...
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... effect . Ancient Roman Festivals JANUARY . ( For the Mirror . ) THE Romans had numerous stated feasts in honour of their deities and heroes , as well as movable and occasional ones ; they were divided into days of banquet- ting and ...
... effect . Ancient Roman Festivals JANUARY . ( For the Mirror . ) THE Romans had numerous stated feasts in honour of their deities and heroes , as well as movable and occasional ones ; they were divided into days of banquet- ting and ...
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... effect is intended against Mr. Camp- bell . He is one of the few men whom I could at any time walk half - a - dozen miles through the snow to spend an afternoon with ; and I could no more do this with a penurious man , than I could with ...
... effect is intended against Mr. Camp- bell . He is one of the few men whom I could at any time walk half - a - dozen miles through the snow to spend an afternoon with ; and I could no more do this with a penurious man , than I could with ...
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Page 286 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 202 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Page 323 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 193 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 170 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 108 - ... give to all remote and unknown regions ? Had he come upon some wild island far in the Indian sea; or was this the famed Cipango itself, the object of his golden fancies? A thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as, with his anxious crews, he waited for the night to pass away ; wondering whether the morning light would reveal a savage wilderness, or dawn upon spicy groves, and glittering fanes, and gilded cities, and all the splendor of oriental civilization.
Page 108 - What a bewildering crowd of conjectures must have thronged upon his mind as to the land which lay before him, covered with darkness. That it was fruitful was evident, from the vegetables which floated from its shores. He thought, too, that he perceived in the balmy air the fragrance of aromatic groves. The moving light which he had beheld had proved that it was the residence of man.
Page 193 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 343 - He said he was well aware that his death would occasion some noise, and that every scrap of his writing would be revived against him to the injury of his future reputation ; that letters and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would be handed about by idle vanity or malevolence, when no dread of his resentment would restrain them, or prevent the censures of shrilltongued malice, or the insidious sarcasms of envy, from pouring...
Page 109 - ... and splendid dress of the Spaniards. The admiral particularly attracted their attention, from his commanding height, his air of authority, his dress of scarlet, and the deference which was paid him by his companions ; all which pointed him out to be the commander.!