The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumul 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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Pagina 6
... subordinate , or to feel the necessity of moderation in the display of that superiority which would naturally result from his high rank . He received them with some OBSERVATIONS ON LYING . Lies of interest are very various THE MIRROR .
... subordinate , or to feel the necessity of moderation in the display of that superiority which would naturally result from his high rank . He received them with some OBSERVATIONS ON LYING . Lies of interest are very various THE MIRROR .
Pagina 13
... observations being often ill timed , grow sickly and decay , vanish- ing into air . There are contingent evils in this world ; perhaps these may be of them . But let us proceed to show that , by the increase of lawyers ; it is self ...
... observations being often ill timed , grow sickly and decay , vanish- ing into air . There are contingent evils in this world ; perhaps these may be of them . But let us proceed to show that , by the increase of lawyers ; it is self ...
Pagina 14
... observed . When any person Is injured , he gets hold , if possible , of his adversary's garment , and ties it to his own ; if he can do this , the offender neither attempts to deliver himself , nor to leave the garment behind him , but ...
... observed . When any person Is injured , he gets hold , if possible , of his adversary's garment , and ties it to his own ; if he can do this , the offender neither attempts to deliver himself , nor to leave the garment behind him , but ...
Pagina 15
... observed , that it was ab- solutely necessary various parts of scripture should be had in remembrance by his hearers , particularly those pas- sages in which the holy rite of matrimony was ordained , for this holy rite must previously ...
... observed , that it was ab- solutely necessary various parts of scripture should be had in remembrance by his hearers , particularly those pas- sages in which the holy rite of matrimony was ordained , for this holy rite must previously ...
Pagina 18
... observation and science , the unique becomes the incredible , and we receive with far greater doubt the apparition of such anomalies as the present . It is curious , that though medical men seem in general to regard this crea- ture as a ...
... observation and science , the unique becomes the incredible , and we receive with far greater doubt the apparition of such anomalies as the present . It is curious , that though medical men seem in general to regard this crea- ture as a ...
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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...