The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 26J. Limbird, 1835 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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... road . Under its shade the rustics of the neighbourhood have been accustomed to assemble on certain holidays and celebrate their rural festivals . This custom has been handed down from father to son for several generations , until the ...
... road . Under its shade the rustics of the neighbourhood have been accustomed to assemble on certain holidays and celebrate their rural festivals . This custom has been handed down from father to son for several generations , until the ...
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... roads below , watching for merchants and bishops , and other wealthy travellers , upon whom to pounce down , like an eagle from his eyrie . Descending from the cliffs , and remount- ing my horse , a ride of a mile or two farther along a ...
... roads below , watching for merchants and bishops , and other wealthy travellers , upon whom to pounce down , like an eagle from his eyrie . Descending from the cliffs , and remount- ing my horse , a ride of a mile or two farther along a ...
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... roads , marked by some of those dismal names , with which the country people in England are apt to make dreary places still more dreary . The horrors of " Thieves ' Wood , " Hag Nook , " had all to be encountered in the to beset our ...
... roads , marked by some of those dismal names , with which the country people in England are apt to make dreary places still more dreary . The horrors of " Thieves ' Wood , " Hag Nook , " had all to be encountered in the to beset our ...
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... road , with occa- sional passing places , would be sufficient ; and as the weight of the carriages and lading would be much less , the rails might be pro- portionably lighter . Labour in India is vastly cheaper than in England ; and ...
... road , with occa- sional passing places , would be sufficient ; and as the weight of the carriages and lading would be much less , the rails might be pro- portionably lighter . Labour in India is vastly cheaper than in England ; and ...
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... road , a tall , fine , happy- looking , young man , in a sailor's dress , who accosted her : - " And do you not know me , my kind , my best friend ? " said he , smiling at her air of embarrassinent and surprise : " but no wonder , for I ...
... road , a tall , fine , happy- looking , young man , in a sailor's dress , who accosted her : - " And do you not know me , my kind , my best friend ? " said he , smiling at her air of embarrassinent and surprise : " but no wonder , for I ...
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Page 64 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 261 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage ; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 87 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Page 185 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Page 88 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art; and these withal A race of faces happy as the scene, Whose fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires
Page 386 - It -was rather the yielding of nature, than a compliance with this unexpected order, that caused the head of our heroine to sink on her bosom; when she heard the report of the rifle, the whizzing of the bullet, and the enraged cries of the beast, •who was rolling over on the earth, biting its own flesh, and tearing the twigs and branches within its reach. At the next instant, the form of Leather-stocking rushed by her; and he called aloud, " Come in, Hector; come in, you old fool; 't is a hard-lived...
Page 384 - Look at the dog!" Brave had been their companion from the time the voice of his young mistress lured him from his kennel, to the present moment. His advanced age had long before deprived him of his activity; and when his companions stopped to view the scenery, or to add to their bouquets, the mastiff would lay his huge frame on the ground, and await their movements, with his eyes closed, and a listlessness in his air that ill accorded with the character of a protector. But when aroused by this cry...
Page 81 - SET me whereas the sun doth parch the green, Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice: In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen; In presence prest of people mad or wise; Set me in high, or yet in low degree; In longest night, or in the shortest day; In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be; In lusty youth, or when my hairs...
Page 88 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 384 - Listen ! there are the cries of a child on this mountain ! is there a clearing near us ? or can some little one have strayed from its parents ?" " Such things frequently happen,