The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Том 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... eyes , you find neither conso- lation nor relief . The horrors attendant on tearing the Africans from their na- tive country , are only to be compared to the horrors of the voyage ; the latter are only to be equalled by the horrors of ...
... eyes , you find neither conso- lation nor relief . The horrors attendant on tearing the Africans from their na- tive country , are only to be compared to the horrors of the voyage ; the latter are only to be equalled by the horrors of ...
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... eyes , and howling as if in the ut- most grief . EPITAPH . - The following verse , stanza , or whatever else it may be called , is a literal transcript from a tomb - stone in Wigtown church - yard , Galloway : " Here lies John Taggart ...
... eyes , and howling as if in the ut- most grief . EPITAPH . - The following verse , stanza , or whatever else it may be called , is a literal transcript from a tomb - stone in Wigtown church - yard , Galloway : " Here lies John Taggart ...
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... eyes , eye - brows , chin , mouth , tongue , ears , throat , & c . exactly re- semble those of the human species . Its head is somewhat bent forward . The spinous processes of the cervical and dorsal vertebræ project in that dis- tinct ...
... eyes , eye - brows , chin , mouth , tongue , ears , throat , & c . exactly re- semble those of the human species . Its head is somewhat bent forward . The spinous processes of the cervical and dorsal vertebræ project in that dis- tinct ...
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... eye with a twinkle , and throws a flash of sunshine over the cloudiest visage , while it irradiates and em- bellishes the most beautiful . Including thine , reader , in the latter class , I counsel thee to give the experiment a frequent ...
... eye with a twinkle , and throws a flash of sunshine over the cloudiest visage , while it irradiates and em- bellishes the most beautiful . Including thine , reader , in the latter class , I counsel thee to give the experiment a frequent ...
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... eyes of the parties to direct their choice till they are mutually pledged to each other . An elderly female is employed by the relations of the youth to visit the ob- ject selected by his parents or friends , or guessed at by himself ...
... eyes of the parties to direct their choice till they are mutually pledged to each other . An elderly female is employed by the relations of the youth to visit the ob- ject selected by his parents or friends , or guessed at by himself ...
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Страница 87 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
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Страница 289 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Страница 303 - 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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Страница 261 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Страница 357 - Ye* ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose dice were human bones?
Страница 153 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Страница 418 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Страница 220 - Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary.
Страница 152 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...