La Belle Assemblée, Հատոր 18J. Bell, 1818 |
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... seen a prodigious number of lish gentlemen , we took horse to see St. barges and boats , of great length , full of Germains en Lay , a stately country house 11 hay , corn , wood , wine , & c . Under the of the King's , five leagues from ...
... seen a prodigious number of lish gentlemen , we took horse to see St. barges and boats , of great length , full of Germains en Lay , a stately country house 11 hay , corn , wood , wine , & c . Under the of the King's , five leagues from ...
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... seen her haughty as a Spanish Princess to penny - peeresses , when she should be acting her less merit but my old friend , Adleeron , whom I have not seen these seven - and- twenty years till last Monday , gave me a history which should ...
... seen her haughty as a Spanish Princess to penny - peeresses , when she should be acting her less merit but my old friend , Adleeron , whom I have not seen these seven - and- twenty years till last Monday , gave me a history which should ...
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... seen . - This is a kind of Vaudeville , which , even to be endured , wants original- ity of idea , wit in the dialogue , and some measure in its versification . A cross pur- pose , founded on the loss of a canary - bird , forms the ...
... seen . - This is a kind of Vaudeville , which , even to be endured , wants original- ity of idea , wit in the dialogue , and some measure in its versification . A cross pur- pose , founded on the loss of a canary - bird , forms the ...
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... seen by the rapidity with which the wheels turned . It is then evident that the breath of so many persons rising towards the ceiling by its lightness , nuavoidably takes the direction of the current , and passes away , as a stream of ...
... seen by the rapidity with which the wheels turned . It is then evident that the breath of so many persons rising towards the ceiling by its lightness , nuavoidably takes the direction of the current , and passes away , as a stream of ...
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... . The jest was instantly seen ; they shook hands ; and the lawyer exerted himself warmly to promote the election of the facetious orator . ANECDOTE OF THE KING OF DENMARK , pretence whatever . HISTORICAL AND SELECT ANECDOTES . 55.
... . The jest was instantly seen ; they shook hands ; and the lawyer exerted himself warmly to promote the election of the facetious orator . ANECDOTE OF THE KING OF DENMARK , pretence whatever . HISTORICAL AND SELECT ANECDOTES . 55.
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Էջ 58 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The...
Էջ 112 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Էջ 233 - Mecklenburg with desolation. I know, Sire, that it seems unbecoming my sex, in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly my province to study the...
Էջ 178 - There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreathed with mine alone, That destiny's relentless knife At once must sever both or none. There is a form on which these eyes Have often gazed with fond delight ; By day that form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night. There is...
Էջ 56 - Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now forty years since I worked like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer.
Էջ 58 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Էջ 319 - I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.
Էջ 58 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...