The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volum 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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... ancients , a launch was ever an occasion of great festivity . The mariners were crowned with wreaths , and the ship bedecked with streamers and garlands . Safely afloat , she was purified with a lighted torch , an egg , and brimstone ...
... ancients , a launch was ever an occasion of great festivity . The mariners were crowned with wreaths , and the ship bedecked with streamers and garlands . Safely afloat , she was purified with a lighted torch , an egg , and brimstone ...
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... ancient and universal . Pliny tells us of the wonderful qualities of a bone found in the right side of a toad . In India , it is a common notion that some species of serpents have precious stones in their heads . Our old credulous ...
... ancient and universal . Pliny tells us of the wonderful qualities of a bone found in the right side of a toad . In India , it is a common notion that some species of serpents have precious stones in their heads . Our old credulous ...
Pàgina 35
... ancient and venerable ornaments of the houses of the original settlers of Manhattan , now almost extinct among us . There is also a quiet keeping in the cottage and the grounds around it , that assists in making up the charm of the ...
... ancient and venerable ornaments of the houses of the original settlers of Manhattan , now almost extinct among us . There is also a quiet keeping in the cottage and the grounds around it , that assists in making up the charm of the ...
Pàgina 38
... ancient sayings , founded on long actual observation of Nature . There are some natural reasons why , if showery weather set in at this time , it will be of long con- tinuance . And we have ourselves noticed the fact repeatedly , and it ...
... ancient sayings , founded on long actual observation of Nature . There are some natural reasons why , if showery weather set in at this time , it will be of long con- tinuance . And we have ourselves noticed the fact repeatedly , and it ...
Pàgina 44
... ancient city dazzled and delighted me for a while , but my heart returned again with fresh impulse to its earlier and better feelings , and I anxiously awaited the return of this little dove , that had gone forth with my renewed vows of ...
... ancient city dazzled and delighted me for a while , but my heart returned again with fresh impulse to its earlier and better feelings , and I anxiously awaited the return of this little dove , that had gone forth with my renewed vows of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.