The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumul 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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Pagina 5
... face or a torn doublet . Shakspeare foresaw him when he framed his fools and jesters . They have all the true Suett stamp , a loose gait , a slippery tongue ; this last the ready midwife to a without - pain - deli- vered jest ; in words ...
... face or a torn doublet . Shakspeare foresaw him when he framed his fools and jesters . They have all the true Suett stamp , a loose gait , a slippery tongue ; this last the ready midwife to a without - pain - deli- vered jest ; in words ...
Pagina 14
... face , and brought with it such a confounded stink , that I was obliged to keep my handkerchief to my nose the whole way , and could see nothing of the prospect . " 66 In the riots of the year 1780 , which at the same time endangered ...
... face , and brought with it such a confounded stink , that I was obliged to keep my handkerchief to my nose the whole way , and could see nothing of the prospect . " 66 In the riots of the year 1780 , which at the same time endangered ...
Pagina 15
... face was partly covered , and said , “ You see him now . " The surprise of the postmistress may be easily conjectured . She offered him some refreshment , which he declined . Meanwhile there was a loud noise at the door , where ...
... face was partly covered , and said , “ You see him now . " The surprise of the postmistress may be easily conjectured . She offered him some refreshment , which he declined . Meanwhile there was a loud noise at the door , where ...
Pagina 17
... face project a little , which , together with the eyes , eye - brows , chin , mouth , tongue , ears , throat , & c . exactly re- semble those of the human species . Its head is somewhat bent forward . The spinous processes of the ...
... face project a little , which , together with the eyes , eye - brows , chin , mouth , tongue , ears , throat , & c . exactly re- semble those of the human species . Its head is somewhat bent forward . The spinous processes of the ...
Pagina 26
... face of the Cummings , who had been drinking earth , whereof they were made ! " - freely , boasted that he could swallow also , 66 as being retrogade to nature , knives as well as the Frenchman . He therefore were they drawn backwards ...
... face of the Cummings , who had been drinking earth , whereof they were made ! " - freely , boasted that he could swallow also , 66 as being retrogade to nature , knives as well as the Frenchman . He therefore were they drawn backwards ...
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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...