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SPECTACLES

... sight must be prepared to put on their last glasses for the last time long before their eyes are closed in death. A comic story, told by Dr. IKitchiner, bea had its parallel in tragedy. A lad extracted the glasses from his grandfather's spectacles. The ...

LITERATURE

... Seven successiee d wickets, or seven maseive doors closed with tocies and bolts,. ol defended the, spiral staircase from story, to story, and a sentinel v, and ?? Stood guard at each. An exterior gallery, extending ei ten paces on each side, ran round the ...

POETRY

... eyed With anxions fondness ansI maternal pride, The daughter wbisper'd, AIs it true, Tell me, dear mother, shell I wee Those short.lived phantoms of a day, In rearl andl glorious colours drest- That, winged, with a timorous glee, Fickle ad ligbtsome ill ...

THE OPENING OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... assistants, were, besides a few policemen and a stray red.coated Sapper, the only occupants of the building. 'Daring the'short hour of calm and quiet which succeeded,' we made a hurried survey of the interior, to ascertain how far things were in order ...

LITERATURE

... Temple, I was turtied back from a short cot I wanted to make and edvised to continue my route in another direction, as a barri- cade was forming in my path. I had never heard of barricades, since so familiar in. French story, and was some time before I could ...

LITERATURE

... nine weresacrificed 6 to the new mode, with servile iustantaueousnese. Of what fashion is it not equally true ? With women, short and tall, women stout end slender, women bglghehouldered and low- shouldered, women stooping and straight-backed, women with ...

LITERATURE

... hopetisly, for the advent of better times. In short, every mearis were telen to persuade the agriculturists I that they wers labouring under a temporary but not a permanent I difficulty, and that a very short time would suffice to restore t them to hteir ...

LITERATURE

... her name. Nothing can be more exquisite than Bulwer's continua- tion of My Novel. There is not much progress made in the story-but there are some exciting scenes, upon which the reader dwells with pleasure. Oar London Commissioner furnishes a second ...

LITERATURE

... frlendshlp.' Afteetdelioeerio I tbis addreass,asd spending some time in prayer, he laid his' bead I on the block, anld breathing a short private prayer, save 'he I oaigas to lbs exccciineer. Not being impuedietely obeyed, be partall rased ieheed, and saitd, ' ...

LITERATURE

... eeding from intefligence of the bighest order, furnish abundance of instructive and entertaining reading. The cedeightfhl story, Katie Stewart, is concluded, and announced for rpublication in a separate form, and its attractiveness *ill be certain ...

THE GRANDFATHER'S STORY

... THE GRANDFATHER'S STORY, WER'N I first took my Beat as clerk in our Bank, the stale of the country was tar less safe than it is now. The roads were rnit only unconscious of Macadam, and fatal in snany places to wheels and springs, but dangerous to a still ...

LITERATURE

... second part'of 1Lady Lee's Widowhood keeps oilive the interest 'excited by the first. We have the foretaste of ans excellent story. ':AGlimpse into the'EleusinianL Mysteries will please all who delight in that which is classical anid ?? of Mairwara;'a ...