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Consort of WILLIAM IV . Published by John Limbird 143 Strand . Roffe Sc THE Mirror OF LITERATURE , AMUSEMENT , AND INSTRUCTION : Holt Majesty QUEEN ADELAIDE .
Consort of WILLIAM IV . Published by John Limbird 143 Strand . Roffe Sc THE Mirror OF LITERATURE , AMUSEMENT , AND INSTRUCTION : Holt Majesty QUEEN ADELAIDE .
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... studies for the future . A new year and a new volume bring fresh hopes of new subscribers , and stimulate us in striving for the gratification of all . December 27 , 1830 . " MEMOIR OF HER MAJESTY , QUEEN ADELAIDE . HER Most iv PREFACE .
... studies for the future . A new year and a new volume bring fresh hopes of new subscribers , and stimulate us in striving for the gratification of all . December 27 , 1830 . " MEMOIR OF HER MAJESTY , QUEEN ADELAIDE . HER Most iv PREFACE .
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MEMOIR OF HER MAJESTY , QUEEN ADELAIDE . HER Most Gracious Majesty , ADELAIDE , the Queen Consort of these realms , was born the 13th day of August 1792 , and baptized by the names of Adelaide Louisa Theresa Caroline Amelia ; and is the ...
MEMOIR OF HER MAJESTY , QUEEN ADELAIDE . HER Most Gracious Majesty , ADELAIDE , the Queen Consort of these realms , was born the 13th day of August 1792 , and baptized by the names of Adelaide Louisa Theresa Caroline Amelia ; and is the ...
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... Majesty , since her arrival in this country , has proved those quali- ties to be deeply implanted in her heart , and the invariable guide of her actions . The same feelings and the same principles which prompted the Princess Adelaide to ...
... Majesty , since her arrival in this country , has proved those quali- ties to be deeply implanted in her heart , and the invariable guide of her actions . The same feelings and the same principles which prompted the Princess Adelaide to ...
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... Majesty had contributed to them as Duchess of Clarence . In all her arrangements her Majesty has shown that well regulated and considerate mind , which has in- variably dictated to her the best mode of conduct ; and the same kind , bene ...
... Majesty had contributed to them as Duchess of Clarence . In all her arrangements her Majesty has shown that well regulated and considerate mind , which has in- variably dictated to her the best mode of conduct ; and the same kind , bene ...
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Side 237 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Side 251 - The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Side 423 - Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Side 138 - Year. When I considered the Fragrancy of the Walks and Bowers, with the Choirs of Birds that sung upon the Trees, and the loose Tribe of People that walked under their Shades, I could not but look upon the Place as a kind of Mahometan Paradise.
Side 412 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Side 417 - ... and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February) when those birds usually sit.
Side 111 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Side 236 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Side 112 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Side 89 - Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes.