The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumul 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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Pagina 8
... night with a full stomach and a clear conscience : - ' Go ! from the creatures thy instruc- tion take . ' When the Roman historian capti- vates us most , he recals that simple age of purity in which Cineinnatus culti- vated his own ...
... night with a full stomach and a clear conscience : - ' Go ! from the creatures thy instruc- tion take . ' When the Roman historian capti- vates us most , he recals that simple age of purity in which Cineinnatus culti- vated his own ...
Pagina 9
... night . At this time , the water being raised , or , in other words , the flowing tide coming in , prevents those ... nights without any food to themselves , and are now again obliged to do the same on the river Ganges ; and , fourth ...
... night . At this time , the water being raised , or , in other words , the flowing tide coming in , prevents those ... nights without any food to themselves , and are now again obliged to do the same on the river Ganges ; and , fourth ...
Pagina 10
... night , met the bailiffs , and desired to be dismissed from serving ; drank strong beer and metheglin ; expended about three shillings ; went home late , but got excused , as they entertained a good opinion of my father . " Monday ...
... night , met the bailiffs , and desired to be dismissed from serving ; drank strong beer and metheglin ; expended about three shillings ; went home late , but got excused , as they entertained a good opinion of my father . " Monday ...
Pagina 12
... night , for what is it but to establish a compe- tition between God and mammon , and to adjudge the preference to the latter ? What but to dethrone the moral go- vernor of the world , and to fall down and worship the idol of interest ...
... night , for what is it but to establish a compe- tition between God and mammon , and to adjudge the preference to the latter ? What but to dethrone the moral go- vernor of the world , and to fall down and worship the idol of interest ...
Pagina 14
... night's rest may be to that poor man . " CANINE AFFECTION .-- A bitch , be- longing to Mr. Cullen , of the Crown and Thistle Inn , Loughborough , lately brought forth four puppies . After they were drowned and thrown aside , she sought ...
... night's rest may be to that poor man . " CANINE AFFECTION .-- A bitch , be- longing to Mr. Cullen , of the Crown and Thistle Inn , Loughborough , lately brought forth four puppies . After they were drowned and thrown aside , she sought ...
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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...