The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... wife must annex Her proper description , age , station , and sex . Her age , four - and - thirty , she fix'd to the door , But somehow the wafer stuck over the four ; And Martha , if judged by some ill- temper❜d men , Would seem to ...
... wife must annex Her proper description , age , station , and sex . Her age , four - and - thirty , she fix'd to the door , But somehow the wafer stuck over the four ; And Martha , if judged by some ill- temper❜d men , Would seem to ...
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... wives and children of profes- sional men for the number of lies , which they are obliged to tell in the course of the ... wife and daugh- ter , or son , to tell what they call a white lie ! I would ask those fathers , I would ask mothers ...
... wives and children of profes- sional men for the number of lies , which they are obliged to tell in the course of the ... wife and daugh- ter , or son , to tell what they call a white lie ! I would ask those fathers , I would ask mothers ...
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... wives are generally the cause of separation be tween brothers ; and as they are both the same , they think the wives would not be able to distinguish each other's husband , and preserve their chastity . One day a milkman was passing by ...
... wives are generally the cause of separation be tween brothers ; and as they are both the same , they think the wives would not be able to distinguish each other's husband , and preserve their chastity . One day a milkman was passing by ...
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... wife , he promised to restore her to life , provided they would give him the names of three men who had never known adversity , that he might in- scribe them upon her tomb - stone ; and upon the prince acknowledging the im- possibility ...
... wife , he promised to restore her to life , provided they would give him the names of three men who had never known adversity , that he might in- scribe them upon her tomb - stone ; and upon the prince acknowledging the im- possibility ...
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... wife in case of divorce . The husband also supplies the requisite furniture , car- pets , mats , culinary utensils , and other necessaries . It would be deemed the greatest pos- sible disgrace to take back the bride af- ter she had left ...
... wife in case of divorce . The husband also supplies the requisite furniture , car- pets , mats , culinary utensils , and other necessaries . It would be deemed the greatest pos- sible disgrace to take back the bride af- ter she had left ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...