THE NEW PALACE IN ST. JAMES’S PARK.
Palaces are at all times objects of national interest,
or rather they are national concerns. They belong
to the attributes of royalty, and in some insta...
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THE YORK COLUMN.
Five years have now elapsed since the improvements
in St. James’s Park were commenced, by order
of Government, for the gratification of the people.
We were early in our co...
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Vol. XX, No. 574. Saturday, November 3, 1832
Author: Various
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CROSSES
[Illustration: (At Eyam.)]
[Illustration: (At Wheston.)]
[Illustration: (Beauchief Abbey.)]
Mr. Rhodes, the elegant topographer of the Peak,
observes, “there are but fe...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XII, No. 338.] Saturday, November
1, 1828. [Price 2d.
Nelson’s Monument, at Liverpool.
[Illustration]
(To the Editor of the Mirro...
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SUSSEX PLACE,
Is said to have been erected from the designs of Mr.
Nash, but is considered as one of the least successful
of his productions. It was among the earliest
of the terraces in the Par...
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EUROPEAN CITIES.—­NAPLES.
[Illustration: European Cities.—­Naples.]
In our last volume we commenced the design of illustrating
the principal Cities of Europe, by a series
of ...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIV, No. 395.] Saturday, October
24, 1829. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration]
The Original Royal Exchange.
(Fr...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. X, no. 280.] Saturday, October
27, 1827. [Price 2d.
Illustrations of Shakspeare.
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 12, No. 323.] Saturday, July 19,
1828. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Columbia college]
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THE NATURALIST.
See the Engravings.
A delightful volume, of title almost synonymous with
this division of the mirror, has just been published.
It is entitled The Journal of a Naturalist,[1]
with...
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VILLAS IN THE REGENT’S PARK
[Illustration: Hanover Lodge.]
[Illustration: Grove house.]
The villas of this district are among the most pleasing
of all the architectural creations tha...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
No. 469.] Saturday January 1, 1831 [price
2d.
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[Illustration: Copied from one of the prints
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIII, No. 365.] Saturday, April
11, 1829. [Price. 2d.
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Old Somerset house.
[Illustration: Old So...
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ST. DUNSTAN’S, FLEET STREET.
[Illustration]
No church in London is perhaps better known than the
above, which is distinctively called Saint Dunstan’s
in the West. External elegance h...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 12, No. 342.] Saturday, November
22, 1828. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Council office, &c.
Wh...
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TEMPLE AT ABURY.
Sermons in stones
And good in every thing.—­Shakspeare.
What means the mysterious circle of stocks and stones
on the other side? Such will be t...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 17, No. 483.] Saturday, April
2, 1831. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Grotto at Ascot
place.]
Here is a pi...
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CORNWALL TERRACE
Regent’s park.
Adjoining York Terrace, engraved and described
in No. 358, of the mirror, is Cornwall Terrace,
one of the earliest and most admired of all the buildings
in the Pa...
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OLD HALL, IN DERBYSHIRE.
[Illustration]
This picturesque specimen of olden architecture stands
upon the Norton Lees estate, on the northern verge
of Derbyshire upon the adjacent county of York; about
...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIX. No. 542.] Saturday,
April 14, 1832. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Entrance lodge.]
The ...
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THE NEW CHURCH OF ST. DUNSTAN IN THE WEST.
[Illustration: New church of st.
Dunstan in the West, Fleet
street.]
In our fourteenth volume we took a farewell glance
of the old church of St. Dunsta...
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Vol. 13, No. 374
Author: Various
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ST. PETER’S CHURCH, PIMLICO.
[Illustration: St. Peter’s Church, Pimlico.]
The engraving represents the new church on the eastern
side of Wilton Place, in the Parish of St. George,
Ha...
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Volume 19, No. 528, Saturday, January 7, 1832
Author: Various
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 10, No. 287.] Saturday, December
15, 1827. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: New steam carriage.]
Explanation...
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BOLSOVER CASTLE
Bolsover is a populous village on the eastern verge
of Derbyshire upon the adjacent county of Nottingham;
and but a short distance from the town of Chesterfield.
The Castle occup...
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THREE BOROUGHS:
1. Dunwich, Suffolk.
2. Old sarum, Wilts.
3. Bramber, Sussex.
Proposed to be wholly disfranchised by “the
Reform Bill....
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PONTEFRACT CASTLE.
Pontrefact, a place of considerable note in English
history, is situated about two miles south-west from
Ferrybridge, nine miles nearly east from Wakefield,
and fifteen miles north-...
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CHAPEL ON THE BRIDGE, WAKEFIELD
Chapels on bridges are not so unfrequent in architectural
history as the rarity of their remains would indicate.
Among the early records of bridge-building we rea...
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RELICS OF ARIOSTO.
[Illustration: Inkstand.]
[Illustration: Chair.]
We need not bespeak the reader’s interest in
these “trivial fond” relics—­these
consecrated ...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 579
Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832
Author: Various
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WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE?
We cannot help it.—­Massinger’s
Roman Actor.
Astronomy, music, and architecture, are the floating
topics of the day; o...
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BLARNEY CASTLE.
[Illustration: Blarney Castle.]
This Engraving, to use a cant phrase, is an exquisite
“bit of Blarney;” but independent of the
vulgar association, it has a multitude ...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIV, No. 384.] Saturday, August
8, 1829. [Price 2d.
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Voltaire’s Chateau, at Ferney.
[Illustratio...
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OLD COVENT GARDEN.
[Illustration: Old Covent Garden. ]
The notoriety of Covent Garden is of too multifarious
a description to render the above illustration uninteresting
to either of our readers...
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WINDSOR CASTLE, (N.E.)
Our sketchy tour of Windsor Castle has hitherto been
told in visits far between, perhaps, if not few, for
the interesting character of the whole fabric.[1]
The present Cut inclu...
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THE PENITENT’S RETURN.
By Mrs. Hemans.
Can guilt or misery ever enter here?
All! no, the spirit of domestic peace,
Though calm and gentle as the broodin...
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THE ADMIRALTY-OFFICE.
The Admiralty Office, Whitehall, has few pretensions
to architectual beauty. It is, however, to use
a common phrase, a commanding pile, and its
association with Britain&rsq...
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WILTON CASTLE.
[Illustration: Wilton Castle.]
Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even
a charm to romantic nature on the banks of the Wye.
Its shattered tower and crumbling wal...
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CONSTANTINOPLE.
[Illustration: Constantinople]
“Queen of the Morn! Sultana
of the East!”
The splendour and extent of Constantinople are not
within the compass of on...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 583
Volume 20, Number 583, Saturday, December 29, 1832
Author: Various
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THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
[Illustration: (Wilkes’s Cottage.)]
Notes from A pedestrian excursion
in the island.
By a Correspondent.
Although the roads of the island have within the last
twenty yea...
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OPORTO
[Illustration: Oporto.]
Persons who are looking for “news from the seat
of war” will probably hail the timely appearance
of this Engraving, and regard it as folks sitting
at a...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 569
Volume XX., No. 569. Saturday, October 6, 1832
Author: Various
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827
Author: Various
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Language: English
Cha...
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Title: Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 276
Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827
Author: Various
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ANNE HATHAWAY’S COTTAGE.
[Illustration: Anne Hathaway’s Cottage.]
This is another of Mr. Rider’s beautiful “Views
to Illustrate the Life of Shakspeare,"[1]—­it
...
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NEW BUILDINGS, INNER TEMPLE.
[Illustration: New Buildings, Inner Temple.]
“The Temple,” as our readers may be aware,
is an immense range of buildings, stretching from
Fleet-street to...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 10, No. 272, Saturday, September 8, 1827
Author: Various
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SION HOUSE.
[Illustration: Sion House.]
Taylor, the water poet, or Samuel Ireland, the picturesque
Thames tourist, could not, in all their enthusiasm
of jingling rhymes and aquatint plates, have...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. X, no. 271.] Saturday, September
1, 1827. [Price 2d.
The New Prison, Norwich.
[Illustration: The New Prison, Norwich]
The old gao...
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THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE, AT ROME.
[Illustration: The Arch of Constantine, at Rome.]
“Still harping” on the Fine Arts—­Architecture
and Painting. Of the former, the ab...
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MONKEY ISLAND.
[Illustration: Monkey island.]
This picturesque spot is situate in the middle of
the river Thames, near Cliefden, Bucks,[1] and about
three-quarters of a mile from the village of ...
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SWISS COTTAGE, AT THE COLOSSEUM, IN THE REGENT’S PARK.
[Illustration: Swiss Cottage, At The Colosseum]
It is now upwards of three years since we directed
the attention of our readers to th...
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LORD BYRON.
Letters and journals of lord Byron, with notices of
his life, by Thomas Moore, Vol. ii.
[To attempt anything like an analysis
of a “great big book,” of 823 pages,
like the pres...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XX. No. 557.] Saturday, July
14, 1832. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Birthplace of Bewick,
th...
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Title: The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction, No. 496
Vol. 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831
Author: Various
Release Date: September 6, 2004 [EBook #13382]
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SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
[Although the reader will scarcely fail to recognise
the typographical amendments contemplated in the Preface
to our last volume, we may be allowed to point attention
to the...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 13, No. 362, Saturday, March 21, 1829
Author: Various
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CURIOUS EXTRACTS FROM CURIOUS AUTHORS, FOR CURIOUS READERS.
(For the Mirror.)
Hollingshed, who was contemporary with Queen Elizabeth,
informs us, “there were very few chimneys (in
England in his...
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THE STRAND, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
(Inscription copied from the original of the annexed
Engraving.)
The Strand,
In its ancient state, anno 1547.
With the Strand Cross, Convent Garden, &c. ...
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TOMB OF GOWER, THE POET.
[Illustration: Tomb of Gower, the Poet.]
Dr. Johnson has dignified Gower with the character
of “The father of English
poetry”; so that no apology is required...
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POLYNESIAN ISLANDS.
[Illustration: Tucopia.]
[Illustration: Piercy islands]
Mr. George Bennett,[1] whose “Journals”
and “Researches” denote him to be a shrewd
and i...
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CLIFTON.
[Illustration]
Clifton is the Montpellier of England, and is associated
with all that is delightful in nature: of this,
the Engraving before us is a true picture, whether
we contemplate...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827
Author: Various
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Cha...
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LAW INSTITUTION.
[Illustration: Law institution.]
This handsome portico is situate on the west side
of Chancery Lane. It represents, however, but
a portion of the building, which extends t...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 17, No. 493.] Saturday, June 11,
1831. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Boat-house at Virginia
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Laker...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction,
Vol. 10, No. 283, 17 Nov 1827
Author: Various
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Chara...
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CASTLE OF THE SEVEN TOWERS
[Illustration: Castle of the Seven Towers at
Constantinople.]
1. Triumphal Arch of Constantine.
2. First Tower of the Pentagon.
3. ...
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CALENDAR OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
This volume professes to be “A Familiar Analysis
of the Calendar of the Church of England,” by
explaining and illustrating its Fasts and Festivals,
&...
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NAVARINO AND THE ISLAND OF SPHAGIA.
[Illustration: Navarino and the
island of Sphagia.]
As our victories, though managed by the hand, are
achieved by the head, we feel little disposed to meddle
...
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Title: The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction, No. 391
Vol. 14, No. 391, Saturday, September 26, 1829
Author: Various
Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #13359]
Lan...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 13, No. 372.] Saturday, may 30,
1829. [Price 2d.
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Epsom New Race Stand.
[Illustration: Epsom New Race ...
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BRAY CHURCH.
Who has not heard of the Vicar of Bray, and
his turning, turning, and turning again? Here
is his church, and a goodly tower withal, which we,
in our turn, have endeavoured to turn t...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,
Issue 344 (Supplementary Issue)
Author: Various
Release Date: January 17, 2004 [eBook #10730]
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIX. No. 538.] Saturday,
march 17, 1832. [Price 2_d_.
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[Illustration: The arbalest, or
cro...
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BURNHAM ABBEY
[Illustration: Burnham Abbey, From
a Sketch, by a Correspondent.]
Burnham is a village of some consideration, in Buckinghamshire,
and gives name to a deanery and hundred. Its...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol 14, no. 400.] Saturday, November
21, 1829. [Price 2d.
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The Limoeiro, at Lisbon.
[Illustration: The Limo...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XII, no. 339.] Saturday,
November 8, 1828. [Price 2d.
Great Milton.
[Illustration: Great Milton.]
Great Milton, a picturesque vil...
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LUCIFER.
By J.A. St. John.[3]
[3] We have abridged this
tale to suit our limits, though we trust
not
at the expense of the...
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POPE’S TEMPLE, AT HAGLEY
[Illustration: Pope’s Temple, at Hagley]
Reader! are you going out of town “in search
of the picturesque”—­if so, bend
your course to t...
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HARROW SCHOOL.
[Illustration: Harrow school.]
To lofty Harrow now.—­Thomson.
Harrow-on-the-hill was a place of some consideration,
even before the foundation of the scholas...
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THE NATURALIST.
[Illustration: Mantis, or walking
leaf.]
[Illustration: Branched starfish.]
Castles, cathedrals, and churches, palaces, and parks,
and architectural subjects generally, hav...
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ROSAMOND’S WELL AND LABYRINTH.
[Illustration: Rosamond’s Well and Labyrinth
at Woodstock.]
For the originals of the annexed engravings we are
indebted to the sketchbooks of two estee...
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KINGSTON NEW BRIDGE.
Through many a bridge the wealthy river roll’d.
Southey.
The annexed picturesque engraving represents the new
bridge[1] from Kingston-upon-Thames to Hampton-Wick,
in t...
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MOCHA.
[Illustration: Mocha.]
“Bon pour la digestion,” said the
young Princess Esterhazy, when sent to bed by her
governess without her dinner; we say the same of coffee;
and hope th...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 20, No. 565.] Saturday, September 8,
1832. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Persian bath.]
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 14, No. 403.] Saturday, December
5, 1829. [Price 2d.
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Fall of the Staubbath.
[Illustration: Fall of th...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 14, No. 381 Saturday, July 18, 1829
Author: Various
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MACCLESFIELD BRIDGE.
This picturesque structure crosses the Canal towards
the Northern verge of the Regent’s Park; and
nearly opposite to it is a road leading to Primrose
Hill, as celebrated in ...
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SPIRIT OF “THE ANNUALS” FOR 1828.
Our readers have annually anticipated a high treat
from this splendid intellectual banquet, served up
by some of the master[1] spirits of the age.
&...
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PREFACE
Wassailing, prefaces, and waits, are nearly at a stand-still;
and in these days of universality and everything,
we almost resolved to leave this page blank, and every
reader to write his own p...
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LORD GROSVENOR’S GALLERY, PARK LANE.
[Illustration: The Grosvenor gallery,
Park lane.]
At the commencement of our Twelfth Volume, we took
occasion to allude to the public spirit of the Ear...
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Volume 17, No. 476, Saturday, February 12, 1831
Author: Various
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 20 No. 576.] Saturday, November 17,
1832. [Price 2d.
[Illustration]
Wingfield manor-house.
This interesting structure is referred to by a cle...
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BIRTHPLACE OF DR. JOHNSON, AT LICHFIELD.
[Illustration]
In the large corner house, on the right of the Engraving,
Samuel Johnson was born on the 18th of September,
N.S. 1709. We learn from Boswe...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 17, No. 486.] Saturday, April
23, 1831. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Windsor Castle.
George the FOURTH&r...
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DUNHEVED CASTLE, CORNWALL.
[Illustration: Dunheved castle, Cornwall.]
These mouldering ruins occupy the crest of the hill,
upon which stands the town of Launceston, near the
centre of the easter...
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THE “INTELLECTUAL CAT.”
(For the Mirror.)
The cat mania has hitherto been more popular
in France than in England. To be sure, we have
the threadbare story of Whittington and his cat;...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIV, No. 397.] Saturday, November
7, 1829. [Price 2d.
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Burleigh, Northamptonshire.
[Illustration]
The ...
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PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF MANCHESTER.
The annexed Engravings are important illustrations
of the statement in a recent Edinburgh Review:[1]—­that
Lancashire from being amongst the most backward par...
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THE DANDY TRAVELLER.
There is a class of travelling oddities—­the
dandy voyageurs of Britain, who, teeming with
the proud consciousness of their excellence in comparison
with the rest of hum...
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KEW PALACE.
[Illustration: Kew Palace.]
Innumerable are the instances of princes having sought
to perpetuate their memories by the building of palaces,
from the Domus Aurea, or golden house of N...
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EXETER ’CHANGE, STRAND.
[Illustration: Exeter ’Change, Strand.]
Who has not heard of Exeter ’Change? celebrated
all over England for its menagerie and merchandize—­wi...
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS.
[Illustration: Tunbridge Wells in
1748. With sketches of Dr. Johnson, Cibber, Garrick,
Lyttleton, Richardson, &c. &c. For Explanation,
see the annexed page.]
Refer...
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PRINCE RUPERT’S PALACE
[Illustration: Prince Rupert’s palace,
Barbican.]
Prince Rupert, who will be remembered in the annals
of the useful and fine arts when his military fame
shall ...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION
Vol. XII. No. 337.] Saturday, October
25, 1828. [Price 2d.
Cheese Wring.
(To the Editor of the Mirror.)
[Illustration]
In presenting you...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 12, No. 331.] Saturday, September
13, 1828. [Price 2d.
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Charlecote Hall, near Stratford-upon-Avon.
[Illustra...
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CRANIOLOGY.
On a celebrated craniologist visiting the studio
of a celebrated sculptor in London, his attention
was drawn to a bust with a remarkable depth of skull
from the forehead to the occiput.&nb...
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CLARENCE TERRACE,
Regent’s park.
O mortal man, who livest here,
Do not complain of this thy hard estate.
Thomson’s Castle of Indolence.
The annexed continuation of ...
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OUR LADY’S CHAPEL,
[Illustration: St. Saviour, Southwark.]
The Engraving represents the interior of the Virgin
Mary’s Chapel, commonly called the Lady Chapel,
and appended to the anc...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 584
Vol. 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
Author: Various
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Language...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 17, Number 490, Saturday, May 21, 1831
Author: Various
Release Date: June 22, 2004 [EBook #12676]
Language: E...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 14, No. 401.] Saturday, November
28, 1829. [Price 2d.
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The Siamese Twins.
[Illustration: The Siamese T...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction,
Volume 12, No. 329, Saturday, August 30, 1828
Author: Various
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NUMBER ONE.
“It’s very hard! and so it
is,
To live in such a row,
And witness this, that every Miss
But me has got a...
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VOL. XIX.
London:
Printed and published by J. LIMBIRD,
143, Strand, (Near Somerset-House.)
1832.
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Preface.
Here we are with our Nineteenth Volume complete....
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIII, No. 358.] Saturday, February
28, 1829. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: York terrace, regent&rsq...
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FALLS OF THE GENESEE.
[Illustration: Falls of the Genesee.]
The Genesee is one of the most picturesque rivers
of North America. Its name is indeed characteristic:
the word Genesee be...
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SPIRIT OF THE “ANNUALS,” FOR 1829.
For some days past our table has been glittering with
these caskets of song and tale in their gay attire
of silken sheen and burnished gold—­ti...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 13, No. 356, Saturday, February 14, 1829
Author: Various
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BRUCE CASTLE, TOTTENHAM.
[Illustration: Bruce castle, Tottenham.]
The engraving represents this interesting structure,
as it appeared in the year 1686; being copied from
a print, after a picture...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 13, No. 363, Saturday, March 28, 1829
Author: Various
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 12, No. 336 Saturday, October 18, 1828
Author: Various
Release Date: February 25, 2004 [EBook #11282]
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ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
No. III.
[Illustration: Hanover terrace, regent’s
Park.]
“The architectural spirit which has arisen in
London since the late peace, and ramified fr...
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OLD SARUM
[Illustration]
Among the earliest antiquarian records, Old Sarum
is described as a city of the Belgae; and its historical
details have proved an exhaustless mine for the researches
of topogr...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIX. No. 532.] Saturday,
February 4, 1832. [Price 2_d_.
[Illustration: Castle of Robert
the devil.]
[Illustration: Ca...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 10, No. 286.] Saturday, December
8, 1827. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Caxton’s House in the Almon...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 17, No. 477, Saturday, February 19, 1831
Author: Various
Release Date: June 9, 2004 [EBook #12568]
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 19, No. 548.] Saturday, may 26, 1832.
[Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Staines new bridge.]
This handsome st...
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GASPARD MONGE’S MAUSOLEUM.
[Illustration]
(To the Editor of the Mirror.)
Sir,—­As one of your correspondents has
favoured you with a drawing of the gaol I designed
for the city and cou...
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THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK.
[Illustration: The Elephant, in
the zoological gardens, regent’s
park.]
The annexed Engraving will probably afford the reader
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ENTRANCE TO THE BOTANIC GARDEN, MANCHESTER.
[Illustration: Entrance to the Botanic Garden,
Manchester.]
Manchester is distinguished among the large towns
of the kingdom for its majority of enlig...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 14, No. 404.] Saturday, December
12, 1829. [Price 2d.
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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
[Illustration: ...
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CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT’S PARK.
The annexed Engraving completes our Series of Architectural
Illustrations of the regent’s park,
and is, withal the most magnificent Terrace in the
circui...
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VIRGIL’S TOMB.
[Illustration: Virgil’s Tomb.]
This consecrated relic of genius stands on the hill
of Posilipo, in the environs of Naples. Its recent
state is so beautifully des...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 470
Volume XVII, No. 470, Saturday, January 8, 1831
Author: Various
Release Date: September 18, 2004 [EBook #13495]
L...
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EXETER HALL, STRAND.
We rejoice to see the site of Burleigh House partly
occupied by the above Building. Its object is
to afford accommodation for the meetings of Philanthropic
Societies—&...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. X, No. 289.] Saturday, December
22, 1827. [Price 2d.
Bushy Park.
[Illustration:] Among the suburban beauties of the
metropolis, and as ...
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THE COLOSSEUM, IN THE REGENT’S PARK.
In a recent Number of the mirror we offered ourselves
as the reader’s cicerone throughout the
interior of this stupendous building, the exterior
of whi...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 12, No. 334 Saturday, October 4, 1828
Author: Various
Release Date: February 25, 2004 [EBook #11281]
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THE BRAHMIN BULL, IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK.
[Illustration: The Brahmin bull,
in the zoological gardens, regent’s
park.]
The Zoological Society possess several Zebus,
...
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REGENT’S PARK.
A visit to these Gardens is one of the most delightful
of the rational recreations of the metropolis.
The walk out is pleasant enough: though there
is little rural bea...
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NOTICES OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
With Five Engravings:
1. Abbotsford, (from the
Garden.) 2. The armoury. 3.
The poet’s study. 4. ...
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ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN, or THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST
A novel. By sir Walter Scott,
Bart.
The author of this delightful novel, by the fertility
of his genius, has almost exhausted the rhetoric of
admir...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 20, No. 568.] Saturday, September 29,
1832. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Birthplace of the
earl of Eldon...
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MILAN CATHEDRAL
[Illustration: Milan cathedral.]
“Show the motley-minded gentleman in;”—­the
old friend with a new face, or, in plain words, the
mirror in a new type. ...
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ST. PANCRAS (OLD) CHURCH.
[Illustration: St. Pancras (old)
church.]
This humble village fane is situated to the north
of London, somewhat more than a mile from Holborn
Bars. Persons unacqu...
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LALEHAM PARK:
[Illustration: The Residence of the Young Queen
of Portugal.]
Circumstances, in themselves trivial, often confer
celebrity upon places hitherto of unlettered note.
Thus...
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THE FORTUNE PLAYHOUSE.
[Illustration: The Fortune Playhouse.]
The Engraving represents one of the playhouses of
Shakspeare’s time, as the premises appeared
a few years since. This th...
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THE ALHAMBRA, IN SPAIN
[Illustration: General View.]
[Illustration: Palace of Charles V., see page
340.]
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Accumulated novelties from Books published
within...
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RUGBY SCHOOL
[Illustration: Rugby School.]
On the eastern border of Warwickshire, about 13 miles
from Coventry, and 16 from Warwick, stands the cheerful
town of Rugby, a place of great antiquity...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 360
Vol. XIII. No. 360, Saturday, March 14, 1829
Author: Various
Release Date: October 5, 2004 [EBook #13...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 17, No. 487.] Saturday, April
30, 1831. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: Birthplace of Locke.]
At the villag...
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ANCIENT PALACE OF HOLYROOD, AT EDINBURGH.
Here is another of the resting-places of fallen royalty;
and a happy haven has it proved to many a crowned
head; a retreat where the plain reproof of flattery...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 17, Number 489, Saturday, May 14, 1831
Author: Various
Release Date: June 16, 2004 [EBook #12634]
Language: E...
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Glammis Castle
Here is a castellated palace, or princely castle,
associated with many great and daring events in the
roll of Scottish history. It stands in the valley
of Strathmore, in a park of...
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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.
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[Illustration]
The first of the above engravings represents one of
the Body Guard...
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HAMPTON COURT.
[Illustration: Hampton Court]
Here is a bird’s-eye view of a royal palace
and domain “cut out in little stars.”
It is copied from one of Kipp’s Views...
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CLARENDON HOUSE, PICCADILLY.
[Illustration: Clarendon house, Piccadilly.]
The virtuous and uncompromising chancellor, the Earl
of Clarendon, had a splendid mansion facing the upper
end of St. Ja...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 578
Vol. XX, No. 578. Saturday, December 1, 1832
Author: Various
Release Date: November 10, 2004 [EBook #...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIX. No. 541.] Saturday,
April 7, 1832. [Price 2d.
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[Illustration: The Lowther arcade.]
T...
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THE PICTURESQUE ANNUAL.
This is certainly one of the most splendid works of
the kind ever produced in this or any other country.
This is high but not unmerited praise; as the reader
will believe...
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FISHMONGER’S HALL
[Illustration: Fishmongers’ hall.]
[Illustration: Arms of the company.]
These Cuts may be welcome illustrations of the olden
magnificence of the City of Londo...
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HERMITAGE AT FROGMORE.
[Illustration]
Frogmore is one of the most delightful of the still
retreats of Royalty. It was formerly the seat
of the Hon. Mrs. Egerton, of whom it was purchased
by Quee...
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CASCADE AT VIRGINIA WATER.
This has been described as “perhaps the most
striking imitation we have of the great works of nature:”
at all events, it has less of the mimicry of art tha...
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TOWN-HALL, LIVERPOOL.
[Illustration: Town-Hall, Liverpool.]
From a small inconsiderable hamlet, Liverpool, within
a century and a half, has been singularly advanced
in national importance. ...
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RARE ARCTIC BIRDS.
[Illustration: The white-horned
owl ]
[Illustration: The cock of the
plains ]
[Illustration: Legs and feet of
the mountain Grouse.]
Few of the results of recent ex...
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Title: Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 475
Vol. XVII, No. 475. Saturday, February 5, 1831
Author: Various
Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #138...
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Vol. XII. F
All-souls’ church,
Langham place.
“Whoever walks through London streets,”
Said Momus to the son of Saturn,
“Each day new edifice...
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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENTS’S PARK.
[Illustration: Emu Enclosure]
[Illustration: Pelican Enclosure]
[Illustration: Aviary for Small Birds]
Our strolls to this scene of intellec...
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REGENT BRIDGE, EDINBURGH.
Edinburgh, “the Queen of the North,” abounds
in splendid specimens of classical architecture.
Since the year 1769, when the building of the New
Town commenc...
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MERCERS’ HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE
[Illustration: Mercers’ Hall, and Cheapside]
The engraving is an interesting illustration of the
architecture of the metropolis in the seventeenth
centur...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. XIV, no. 392.] Saturday,
October 3, 1829. [Price 2d.
The Duke’s Theatre, Dorset Gardens.
[Illustration: The Duke’s Th...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 17, No. 478, Saturday, February 26, 1831
Author: Various
Release Date: June 11, 2004 [EBook #12576]
Language: ...
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AMPTHILL HOUSE, THE SEAT OF LORD HOLLAND.
[Illustration]
This is a delightful retreat for the statesman and
man of letters—­distinctions which its illustrious
occupant enjoys with high honou...
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 333
Vol. 12, Issue 333, September 27, 1828
Author: Various
Release Date: February 17, 2005 [EBook #15087]
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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 10, No. 274, Saturday, September 22, 1827
Author: Various
Release Date: February 27, 2004 [EBook #11330]
Language:&...
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SWAN RIVER
(See the Engraving)
“A view in Western Australia, taken from a hill,
the intended site of a Fort, on the left bank of the
Swan River, a mile and a quarter from its mouth.
The ob...
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