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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... less insensible to the sympathies of savage life , than are naked , uncivilized tribes to the tinsel temptations of art . Among these records of genius and enterprise to improve the condition of his fellow - creatures , the name ...
... less insensible to the sympathies of savage life , than are naked , uncivilized tribes to the tinsel temptations of art . Among these records of genius and enterprise to improve the condition of his fellow - creatures , the name ...
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... less contribute to the embellishment of its neighbourhood . TWELFTH DAY . ( For the Mirror . ) TWELFTH - DAY , Night may be considered the merriest of the whole year , not even excepting Christmas Day . It may perhaps be meet to advert ...
... less contribute to the embellishment of its neighbourhood . TWELFTH DAY . ( For the Mirror . ) TWELFTH - DAY , Night may be considered the merriest of the whole year , not even excepting Christmas Day . It may perhaps be meet to advert ...
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... less populous than Rangoon . The inha- bitants , since the war , had returned to their homes ; the place was in a good measure restored ; and although it had been long the head - quarters of the British army , there was now no reaction ...
... less populous than Rangoon . The inha- bitants , since the war , had returned to their homes ; the place was in a good measure restored ; and although it had been long the head - quarters of the British army , there was now no reaction ...
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... less than four hundred miles was that of a country imperfectly culti- vated and inhabited , and by far the great- est part of which was covered with a deep forest , or with tall reeds and grass , among which there was scarcely any ...
... less than four hundred miles was that of a country imperfectly culti- vated and inhabited , and by far the great- est part of which was covered with a deep forest , or with tall reeds and grass , among which there was scarcely any ...
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... less propriety , upon all the public buildings , from the church to the pillory , in the ancient quarter of Edin- burgh , which bears , or rather once bore , the same relation to the Good Town that Westminster does to London , being ...
... less propriety , upon all the public buildings , from the church to the pillory , in the ancient quarter of Edin- burgh , which bears , or rather once bore , the same relation to the Good Town that Westminster does to London , being ...
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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.!