The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 16J. Limbird, 1830 |
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... soon declared pregnant , and the most happy anticipations were formed of her giving birth to an heir to the crown of Eng- land . In the month of March , however , her Royal Highness caught a severe cold , which ended in a violent ...
... soon declared pregnant , and the most happy anticipations were formed of her giving birth to an heir to the crown of Eng- land . In the month of March , however , her Royal Highness caught a severe cold , which ended in a violent ...
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... soon able again to honour his distin- guished visiters with his presence at din- ner . About this period also he lost one of the oldest and most attached of his attendants , Sir Edmund Nagle - a loss which , added to the increase of his ...
... soon able again to honour his distin- guished visiters with his presence at din- ner . About this period also he lost one of the oldest and most attached of his attendants , Sir Edmund Nagle - a loss which , added to the increase of his ...
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... soon involved himself in the network of pleasure ; while , " vicious flatterers those vultures , whose prey is the heart of princes - lay in wait for the adventurer as he quitted the parental roof , and launched his young bark upon the ...
... soon involved himself in the network of pleasure ; while , " vicious flatterers those vultures , whose prey is the heart of princes - lay in wait for the adventurer as he quitted the parental roof , and launched his young bark upon the ...
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... soon in his glory . The Prince , in the meantime was left in no enviable situation ; for he had not the least idea of being left to conclude a story , the thread of which , ( if it had a thread , ) he had entirely forgotten ; or which ...
... soon in his glory . The Prince , in the meantime was left in no enviable situation ; for he had not the least idea of being left to conclude a story , the thread of which , ( if it had a thread , ) he had entirely forgotten ; or which ...
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... soon from his kneeling position . The Archbishop of Canterbury paused , when the King rose from his seat , and whispered to the Prince , who kneeled again , and the service concluded . " 22 The " happy event " gave great de- light to ...
... soon from his kneeling position . The Archbishop of Canterbury paused , when the King rose from his seat , and whispered to the Prince , who kneeled again , and the service concluded . " 22 The " happy event " gave great de- light to ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.