The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 38J. Limbird, 1841 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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PREFACE . WHEN an author presents to the public the production of his brain , it is usual for him to give some ... present volume , however , what we have to say under our title is chiefly acknowledgments for favours received . Our ...
PREFACE . WHEN an author presents to the public the production of his brain , it is usual for him to give some ... present volume , however , what we have to say under our title is chiefly acknowledgments for favours received . Our ...
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... present , by rehearsing , in extempo . raneous verse , to a lively air , the incidents of his eventful visit , amazing and enrapturing his entertainers and their friends by his wonderful talents and his engaging manners ; and as he took ...
... present , by rehearsing , in extempo . raneous verse , to a lively air , the incidents of his eventful visit , amazing and enrapturing his entertainers and their friends by his wonderful talents and his engaging manners ; and as he took ...
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... present prisonn , whither fate Could beare me and the joys I quit ; Thou causedest the guiltie to be losed From bondes wherein are innocents inclosed , Causing the guiltles to be straite reserved , And freeing those that death hath well ...
... present prisonn , whither fate Could beare me and the joys I quit ; Thou causedest the guiltie to be losed From bondes wherein are innocents inclosed , Causing the guiltles to be straite reserved , And freeing those that death hath well ...
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... present state of the National Monu- ments and Works of Art in Westminster Abbey , St. Paul's Cathedral , and other pub- lic edifices , to consider the best means for their protection , and for affording facilities to the public for ...
... present state of the National Monu- ments and Works of Art in Westminster Abbey , St. Paul's Cathedral , and other pub- lic edifices , to consider the best means for their protection , and for affording facilities to the public for ...
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... present has been generally ac- knowledged since the erection of Hunger- ford Market , in the year 1833 ; shortly ... presents a handsome arched approach from each bank of the river , the road , or rather pathway , being suspended by iron ...
... present has been generally ac- knowledged since the erection of Hunger- ford Market , in the year 1833 ; shortly ... presents a handsome arched approach from each bank of the river , the road , or rather pathway , being suspended by iron ...
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Page 13 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 50 The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 76 - I do not know what I may appear to the World ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 218 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Page 35 - IN the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappaan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail, and implored the protection of St.
Page 230 - Just Disposer of our joys and sorrows, cried I, why could not a man sit down in the lap of content here, — and dance, and sing, and say his prayers, and go to Heaven with this nut-brown maid ? Capriciously did she bend her head on one side, and dance up insidious. — Then 'tis time to dance off...
Page 35 - Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it for the sake of being precise and authentic. Not far from this village, perhaps about...
Page 36 - However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
Page 217 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 36 - ... undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom. In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, " tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose...
Page 62 - It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange.