The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Том 17J. Limbird, 1831 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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... received from Lord Castlereagh an assurance that no indignity should be offered to her Majesty while abroad . Mr. Brougham was now appointed her Majesty's Attorney- General , on which occasion he was admitted within the bar , and ...
... received from Lord Castlereagh an assurance that no indignity should be offered to her Majesty while abroad . Mr. Brougham was now appointed her Majesty's Attorney- General , on which occasion he was admitted within the bar , and ...
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... receiving the respects of the public on one or two stated occasions is sufficiently ancient , but I have understood was discontinued , or not much observed , in the latter days of Lord Eldon . It was revived with somewhat greater ...
... receiving the respects of the public on one or two stated occasions is sufficiently ancient , but I have understood was discontinued , or not much observed , in the latter days of Lord Eldon . It was revived with somewhat greater ...
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... receiving them with a most im- posing mien , and putting on his chapeau as they advance . This is a form , for which ... received : he was fol- lowed by the Archbishop of York , and several other bishops , whose attend- ance gave proof ...
... receiving them with a most im- posing mien , and putting on his chapeau as they advance . This is a form , for which ... received : he was fol- lowed by the Archbishop of York , and several other bishops , whose attend- ance gave proof ...
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... received * * * . The last person of note who arrived before I departed was Sir Thomas Denman . The Chancellor was engaged with some one at the moment , and nothing passed betwixt them but an exchange of bows . It was nearly ten years ...
... received * * * . The last person of note who arrived before I departed was Sir Thomas Denman . The Chancellor was engaged with some one at the moment , and nothing passed betwixt them but an exchange of bows . It was nearly ten years ...
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... received a little before , as member , a court wit , whose eloquence , light and lively , was the admiration of the populace , and saw themselves obliged to refuse Doctor Zeb , who was the very scourge of chatterers , and with a head so ...
... received a little before , as member , a court wit , whose eloquence , light and lively , was the admiration of the populace , and saw themselves obliged to refuse Doctor Zeb , who was the very scourge of chatterers , and with a head so ...
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Страница iii - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Страница 384 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Страница 229 - Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Страница 26 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', ig cattle,) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence ; — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a...
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