The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Том 16J. Limbird, 1830 |
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... gave the latter to understand that their sovereign was in danger , while it did not inform his Majesty of what none of his subjects could have desired him to be informed of - that his doom was sealed , and that a few months must ...
... gave the latter to understand that their sovereign was in danger , while it did not inform his Majesty of what none of his subjects could have desired him to be informed of - that his doom was sealed , and that a few months must ...
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... gave way , and in the four years 1826-9 , 196,554 ( a sum considerably exceeding the amount of the original contract ) has been paid on account of its reparation ! As regards the Post Office , I am not sure that in addition to the ...
... gave way , and in the four years 1826-9 , 196,554 ( a sum considerably exceeding the amount of the original contract ) has been paid on account of its reparation ! As regards the Post Office , I am not sure that in addition to the ...
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... gave evidence of his fondness for female society , a predilection , which in its strictest and purest sense , will elevate and refine the mind and heart , but which , not unfrequently brings with its indulgence a degree of censure that ...
... gave evidence of his fondness for female society , a predilection , which in its strictest and purest sense , will elevate and refine the mind and heart , but which , not unfrequently brings with its indulgence a degree of censure that ...
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... gave to them for these purposes , we gave in reality to ourselves . " On the other hand , Mr. Grey said that he would not oppose the granting of an establish- ment to the Prince equal to that of his ancestors ; but neither would he ...
... gave to them for these purposes , we gave in reality to ourselves . " On the other hand , Mr. Grey said that he would not oppose the granting of an establish- ment to the Prince equal to that of his ancestors ; but neither would he ...
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... gave the palace the ap- pearance of a scene of enchantment . Many of our readers must recollect the lavish expenditure on this occasion , and the puerile taste of a stream with gold and silver fish , flowing down the centre table ...
... gave the palace the ap- pearance of a scene of enchantment . Many of our readers must recollect the lavish expenditure on this occasion , and the puerile taste of a stream with gold and silver fish , flowing down the centre table ...
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Сторінка 237 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Сторінка 251 - The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Сторінка 423 - Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Сторінка 138 - Year. When I considered the Fragrancy of the Walks and Bowers, with the Choirs of Birds that sung upon the Trees, and the loose Tribe of People that walked under their Shades, I could not but look upon the Place as a kind of Mahometan Paradise.
Сторінка 412 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Сторінка 417 - ... and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February) when those birds usually sit.
Сторінка 111 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Сторінка 236 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Сторінка 112 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Сторінка 89 - Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes.