The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen17J. Limbird, 1831 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... Poland , and the subsequent partition of that devoted country , were - prefaced by language very similar to that which this treaty contains ; and the proclamation of the Empress Catherine , which wound up that fatal tragedy , had almost ...
... Poland , and the subsequent partition of that devoted country , were - prefaced by language very similar to that which this treaty contains ; and the proclamation of the Empress Catherine , which wound up that fatal tragedy , had almost ...
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... Poland's slaughtered sons , look on propitiously . We fight the fight of nations - bear witness field and storm To onr desert hereafter ? braggarts warm- Now we are but do you do , Poll ? how d'ye do ? ' — ' I am sick , ' it replied ...
... Poland's slaughtered sons , look on propitiously . We fight the fight of nations - bear witness field and storm To onr desert hereafter ? braggarts warm- Now we are but do you do , Poll ? how d'ye do ? ' — ' I am sick , ' it replied ...
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... Poland ; just as the Marseilles March and la Parisienne are in France and the Netherlands the sig- nals of liberalism . During Mr. Pitt's administration an organ grinder was committed to Newgate for playing " Ah ! ça ira " in the ...
... Poland ; just as the Marseilles March and la Parisienne are in France and the Netherlands the sig- nals of liberalism . During Mr. Pitt's administration an organ grinder was committed to Newgate for playing " Ah ! ça ira " in the ...
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... Poland , when Prince of Sandomir , won at play all the money of one of his nobility , the loser , who , incensed at his ill - fortune , struck the prince a blow on the ear . The offender instantly fled ; but being pur- sued and taken ...
... Poland , when Prince of Sandomir , won at play all the money of one of his nobility , the loser , who , incensed at his ill - fortune , struck the prince a blow on the ear . The offender instantly fled ; but being pur- sued and taken ...
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... Poland . In his youth , Valodimir was the most elegant boy almost ever seen , and scarcely less remarkable for talent than beauty ; but he had a peculiar en- thusiasm about him , in which , as his tutor , Father Theophilus , often said ...
... Poland . In his youth , Valodimir was the most elegant boy almost ever seen , and scarcely less remarkable for talent than beauty ; but he had a peculiar en- thusiasm about him , in which , as his tutor , Father Theophilus , often said ...
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Página 167 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 415 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 305 - Book may be used ; only instead of these words [We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, <fe.] say, \\7~E therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Página 96 - An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Página 77 - ... neither the music of the Shepherd, the crashing of the Avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the Glacier, the Forest, nor the Cloud, have for one moment lightened the weight upon my heart, nor enabled me to lose my own wretched identity in the majesty, and the power, and the Glory, around, above, and beneath me.
Página iii - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Página 384 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Página 229 - Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Página 26 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', ig cattle,) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence ; — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a...
Página 89 - To-morrow is my birth-day — that is to say, at twelve o' the clock, midnight, ie in twelve minutes, I shall have completed thirty and three years of age ! ! ! — and I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart at having lived so long, and to so little purpose. " It is three minutes past twelve. — - ' 'Tis the VOL. v. G NOTICES OF THE 1821. middle of night by the castle clock...