The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumul 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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Pagina 1
... given rise to some jokes on the subject , among such of the prisoners as can laugh at their own crimes , who say , they are punished by the cubit . VOL . I. room commands a complete view into all the yards . A building behind the tread ...
... given rise to some jokes on the subject , among such of the prisoners as can laugh at their own crimes , who say , they are punished by the cubit . VOL . I. room commands a complete view into all the yards . A building behind the tread ...
Pagina 8
... given rise to the calum- nious metaphor of bribery , implied by greasing a man's palm ! as if the fat of a hog was synonimous with gold . - Our very aspersions are often times charged with precious confessions , detersive of the ...
... given rise to the calum- nious metaphor of bribery , implied by greasing a man's palm ! as if the fat of a hog was synonimous with gold . - Our very aspersions are often times charged with precious confessions , detersive of the ...
Pagina 10
... given a bribe to any elector . This clause was so universally opposed , as answering no other end but that of perjuring the members , that Mr. Beckford was com- pelled to withdraw it . Mr. Thurlow opposed the bill in a long speech , to ...
... given a bribe to any elector . This clause was so universally opposed , as answering no other end but that of perjuring the members , that Mr. Beckford was com- pelled to withdraw it . Mr. Thurlow opposed the bill in a long speech , to ...
Pagina 19
... given by dif- ferent writers at various periods rela- tive to the Mermaid . In our next we shall give similar evidence of more recent times , reserving for ourselves what we wish all our readers to do , the right to exercise their own ...
... given by dif- ferent writers at various periods rela- tive to the Mermaid . In our next we shall give similar evidence of more recent times , reserving for ourselves what we wish all our readers to do , the right to exercise their own ...
Pagina 21
... given in Gent . Mag . Sept. and Oct. 1753. It was 65 feet by 20 , and 14 feet high , divided into two stories ; the upper , in modern times , serving for a dwelling - house , the lower for a warehouse . It was in the ninth pier of the ...
... given in Gent . Mag . Sept. and Oct. 1753. It was 65 feet by 20 , and 14 feet high , divided into two stories ; the upper , in modern times , serving for a dwelling - house , the lower for a warehouse . It was in the ninth pier of the ...
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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...