The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumul 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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Pagina 9
... DEAD BODIES . The city of Calcutta being very po- pulous , about sixty or seventy Hindoos are dying every day . After they are dead , their relations take their corpses to Cossy Miter's Ghaut ( the only one in the town ) , where they ...
... DEAD BODIES . The city of Calcutta being very po- pulous , about sixty or seventy Hindoos are dying every day . After they are dead , their relations take their corpses to Cossy Miter's Ghaut ( the only one in the town ) , where they ...
Pagina 14
... dead , she found means to restore , by doubling herself up , and warming it , and by now and then shaking it violently in her teeth . But how transient was her joy , for a relapse took place , and its death quickly fol- lowed . She then ...
... dead , she found means to restore , by doubling herself up , and warming it , and by now and then shaking it violently in her teeth . But how transient was her joy , for a relapse took place , and its death quickly fol- lowed . She then ...
Pagina 16
... dead ? Poor thing ! What's trumps ? - -The man is dead , my dear , whom we employed to clear the mouth of that well behind the house , and which he fell into- Is he ? I thought he would not reco- ver . - Play a spade , ma'am . -There ...
... dead ? Poor thing ! What's trumps ? - -The man is dead , my dear , whom we employed to clear the mouth of that well behind the house , and which he fell into- Is he ? I thought he would not reco- ver . - Play a spade , ma'am . -There ...
Pagina 47
... dead in law , and act accordingly . 9. When beginning the practice of rising early , if you awake , never consider whether you shall rise or not- rise at once ; if you deliberate , you will be sure to decide in favour of " a little more ...
... dead in law , and act accordingly . 9. When beginning the practice of rising early , if you awake , never consider whether you shall rise or not- rise at once ; if you deliberate , you will be sure to decide in favour of " a little more ...
Pagina 55
... dead ! He will no more be seen enriched in Westminster bridge - or keeping his terms as one of the Benchers of St. James's Park - or haunting the pave- ment with moving but unlifted feet . In vain we looked for him " at the hour when he ...
... dead ! He will no more be seen enriched in Westminster bridge - or keeping his terms as one of the Benchers of St. James's Park - or haunting the pave- ment with moving but unlifted feet . In vain we looked for him " at the hour when he ...
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Pagina 87 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Pagina 191 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Pagina 289 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Pagina 303 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 261 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Pagina 357 - Ye* ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose dice were human bones?
Pagina 153 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Pagina 418 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Pagina 220 - Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary.
Pagina 152 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...