The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Том 16J. Limbird, 1830 |
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... readers ( at page 400 of your last volume ) that " altogether , the building expenses of Somerset House amounted to more than half a million sterling . " As an accompaniment to this somewhat vague piece of informa- tion , the following ...
... readers ( at page 400 of your last volume ) that " altogether , the building expenses of Somerset House amounted to more than half a million sterling . " As an accompaniment to this somewhat vague piece of informa- tion , the following ...
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... reader's present tone of mind . They are , in truth , " words that breathe , and thoughts that burn , " and such as the lovers of fervid poetry would hail at any moment . The volume is not ill - timedly dedicated " to the Duchess of ...
... reader's present tone of mind . They are , in truth , " words that breathe , and thoughts that burn , " and such as the lovers of fervid poetry would hail at any moment . The volume is not ill - timedly dedicated " to the Duchess of ...
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... reader in some suspense , respecting the final result of the " Investigation . " The Princess being now fully exculpated from all charges , was publicly received at Court , and had state apartments allotted to her at Kensington Palace ...
... reader in some suspense , respecting the final result of the " Investigation . " The Princess being now fully exculpated from all charges , was publicly received at Court , and had state apartments allotted to her at Kensington Palace ...
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... reader - but the liberty of perusing the Letter is all that has been allowed me . † Life of Sheridan , vol . ii . p . 385 . Montagu House , after the departure of the Princess of Wales for the Continent , was pulled down by order of the ...
... reader - but the liberty of perusing the Letter is all that has been allowed me . † Life of Sheridan , vol . ii . p . 385 . Montagu House , after the departure of the Princess of Wales for the Continent , was pulled down by order of the ...
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... reader must be left , in this case , to draw his own inference ; since , " he that calls a man ungrateful , sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of . " * Within these few days the following anecdote , illustrative of great ...
... reader must be left , in this case , to draw his own inference ; since , " he that calls a man ungrateful , sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of . " * Within these few days the following anecdote , illustrative of great ...
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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.