The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.VOL.I.January to June,1847 |
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... length of his own speech . " Those who own their faults , Mr. Wilson , " said the mother , " go half - way to mend them . The worst are those who do evil with good upon their lips ; such men are demons upon earth . " Mrs. Cartwright ...
... length of his own speech . " Those who own their faults , Mr. Wilson , " said the mother , " go half - way to mend them . The worst are those who do evil with good upon their lips ; such men are demons upon earth . " Mrs. Cartwright ...
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... length when the cof fer was broken in pieces Cleomedes was nowhere to be found , dead or alive . Ter- rified at this prodigy they sent to consult the oracle of Delphi , by which they were commanded to pay divine honours to the athlete ...
... length when the cof fer was broken in pieces Cleomedes was nowhere to be found , dead or alive . Ter- rified at this prodigy they sent to consult the oracle of Delphi , by which they were commanded to pay divine honours to the athlete ...
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... length to neg- lect the cultivation of the arts of war , which they appeared to regard as a low and servile drudgery . And this capital error , in spite of all their acquirements and achievements in eloquence and philosophy in spite of ...
... length to neg- lect the cultivation of the arts of war , which they appeared to regard as a low and servile drudgery . And this capital error , in spite of all their acquirements and achievements in eloquence and philosophy in spite of ...
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... length , that just as it was about to be decided , almost unanimously , that the youngest should ex- pose himself in behalf of the rest , the ob- ject of all this solicitude and speculation came trotting down the glen . He was not , on ...
... length , that just as it was about to be decided , almost unanimously , that the youngest should ex- pose himself in behalf of the rest , the ob- ject of all this solicitude and speculation came trotting down the glen . He was not , on ...
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... length quoth the chief hermit ; " this cell- At these words , life seemed to be res- tored to the stranger , who started , threw back his head , and fixing his nose in an in- clined position , looked at the speaker along it , and ...
... length quoth the chief hermit ; " this cell- At these words , life seemed to be res- tored to the stranger , who started , threw back his head , and fixing his nose in an in- clined position , looked at the speaker along it , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Alice Annie appeared Barnard Castle beauty Ben Jonson bright character Chinchea cried Cyclops dark daugh dead dear death delight door earth exclaimed eyes face father fear feel felt fire gaze gentleman George Sand girl give glance Grabit Habakkuk hand happy head heard heart heaven hermits honour hope hour James Augustus St Jenny Lind John Plaw knew lady laugh light living London look Lord Lord Cochrane Mark Phillips Mary Mary Cartwright ment mind morning mother nature never night Oliver Cromwell once pale passed perhaps poor present racter readers replied round scarcely scene seemed side silent Silenus sizars smile Smith soon soul speak spirit stood sweet Tancred tell thee thing thou thought tion turned voice walk Wallflower whole Wilson woman words young
Pasajes populares
Página 186 - Paris, there grew upon both my hands a number of warts (at the least an hundred) in a month's space. The English Ambassador's Lady, who was a woman far from superstition, told me one day, she would help me away with my warts; whereupon she got a piece of lard with the skin on, and rubbed the warts all over with the fat side, and amongst the rest, that wart which I had had from my childhood...
Página 185 - I'm resolv'd to search for thee: The search itself rewards the pains. So, though the chymic his great secret miss (For neither it in art or nature is,) Yet things well worth his toil he gains; And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way.
Página 58 - ... than she used in delineating and in beautifying the Old World.... The heavens of America appear infinitely higher, the sky is bluer, the air is fresher, the cold is intenser, the moon looks larger, the stars are brighter the thunder is louder, the lightning is vivider, the wind is stronger, the rain is heavier, the mountains are higher, the rivers longer, the forests bigger, the plains broader.
Página 256 - Loss of Memory or Forgetfulness certainly cured by a grateful electuary peculiarly adapted for that end. It strikes at the primary source, which few apprehend, of forgetfulness — makes the head clear and easy — the spirits free, active, and undisturbed — corroborates and revives all the noble faculties of the soul, such as thought, judgment, apprehension, reason, and memory; which last, in particular, it so strengthens, as to render that faculty exceeding quick and good beyond imagination ;...
Página 359 - House, from its members wearing their hoods lined with white silk. All the rest constitute the NonRegent or Lower House, otherwise called the BlackHood House, its members wearing black silk hoods. But Doctors of more than two years...
Página 186 - The success was, that within five weeks space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again : but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Página 391 - Oh, that he Were once more that landscape-painter, Which did win my heart from me ! ' So she droop'd and droop'd before him, Fading slowly from his side : Three fair children first she bore him, Then before her time she died.
Página 257 - ... who, I hear, is lately gone the way of his patients, having died worth five hundred pounds per annum, though he was not ' born
Página 78 - Tear forth the fathers of poor families Out of their beds, and coffin them, alive, In some kind, clasping prison, where their bones May be forthcoming, when the flesh is rotten...
Página 115 - That period of twenty-four hours, formed by the regular revolution of our earth, in which all its inhabitants partake, is particularly distinguished in the physical economy of man. This regular period is apparent in all diseases; and all the other small periods, so wonderful in our physical history, are by it in reality determined.