The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... stone , on the left - hand side as you enter the burial - ground , nearly under the windows of the work house . The inscription was originally on another stone , but time had taken such liberties with it , that in the year 1816 the ...
... stone , on the left - hand side as you enter the burial - ground , nearly under the windows of the work house . The inscription was originally on another stone , but time had taken such liberties with it , that in the year 1816 the ...
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... 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 of honest fame , " 14 MIRROR . 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 of honest fame , " 14 MIRROR . THE.
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... stone ; and upon the prince acknowledging the im- possibility of complying with his re- quest , he asked him , with his usual laugh , why he should expect to escape affliction , when not one , among so many millions , was exempt from ...
... stone ; and upon the prince acknowledging the im- possibility of complying with his re- quest , he asked him , with his usual laugh , why he should expect to escape affliction , when not one , among so many millions , was exempt from ...
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... stones , and iron crows , in order to ag- gravate the explosion , and extend the mischief . " Lord " ( we quote the very words of Sir Edward Coke , which he used on the trial of Guy Fawkes ) " Lord , what a wind , what a fire , what a ...
... stones , and iron crows , in order to ag- gravate the explosion , and extend the mischief . " Lord " ( we quote the very words of Sir Edward Coke , which he used on the trial of Guy Fawkes ) " Lord , what a wind , what a fire , what a ...
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... stone courses in a building . The features of the whole scenery brought strongly to my recollection the ride from Sanquhar to Lead hills , in Scot land ; and to those who have visited this interesting part of my native coun- try , I can ...
... stone courses in a building . The features of the whole scenery brought strongly to my recollection the ride from Sanquhar to Lead hills , in Scot land ; and to those who have visited this interesting part of my native coun- try , I can ...
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Página 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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...