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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... Lady Nelson experi- enced that strong impulsive feeling of impending misfortune , which led her to anticipate his death , but which was inter- preted to her mind by an event yet more painful the alienation of his affections , and the ...
... Lady Nelson experi- enced that strong impulsive feeling of impending misfortune , which led her to anticipate his death , but which was inter- preted to her mind by an event yet more painful the alienation of his affections , and the ...
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... lady with him during the Easter holidays , en- treated her to leave him to spend them at Fontainebleau , and to return herself to Paris . Madame de Beaufort received this order with tears ; it was still worse when they came to part ...
... lady with him during the Easter holidays , en- treated her to leave him to spend them at Fontainebleau , and to return herself to Paris . Madame de Beaufort received this order with tears ; it was still worse when they came to part ...
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... lady , not hostile , to add to the divinity of his aspect , imberbis Apollo . His lameness was only in one foot , the left ; and it was so little visible to casual notice , that as he lounged about a room ( which he did in such a manner ...
... lady , not hostile , to add to the divinity of his aspect , imberbis Apollo . His lameness was only in one foot , the left ; and it was so little visible to casual notice , that as he lounged about a room ( which he did in such a manner ...
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... lady with common understanding , that if he or she was to drink an honest bottle of whiskey at one pull , it is not at all the same thing as drinking a bottle of water ; and in the whole course of my life , I never knew more than five ...
... lady with common understanding , that if he or she was to drink an honest bottle of whiskey at one pull , it is not at all the same thing as drinking a bottle of water ; and in the whole course of my life , I never knew more than five ...
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... lady , under the water or over the water , who had not a good notion of dressing herself out . Up she danced at last to Maurice , who was flinging his feet from under him as fast as hops - for nothing in this world could keep still ...
... lady , under the water or over the water , who had not a good notion of dressing herself out . Up she danced at last to Maurice , who was flinging his feet from under him as fast as hops - for nothing in this world could keep still ...
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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.!