The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 34 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 34 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.
  Scott, Sir Walter, Memoir of: 
    Abbotsford, 241—­247—­248—­250
      Sonnet, by Wordsworth, 420
    anecdotes of, 435
    baronetcy, 250
    birth of, 241
  Scott, Sir Walter, character of, 255—­256
    childhood, 242
    clerk of Sessions, 247
    death, 208—­253—­
      —­on the, by the Author of Eugene Aram, 219
    Dryburgh Abbey, 256—­436
    education, 242
    embarrassments of, 251—­256
    and the Ettrick Shepherd, 335
    family, 253
    fatal illness, 252
    funeral of, 253
      by an eye-witness, 345
    Life of Napoleon, 251
    love of reading, 243
    law studies, 244
    literary attempts, 244
    marriage, 246
    medal of, 255
    memory, 245
    Melrose Abbey, 436
    parentage, 242
    portraits of, 254
    school days, 243
    Selkirk, 437
    sheriffdom, 246
    telling a story, 243
    Works of: 
      Dryden and Swift, edition of, 247
      Eve of St. John, 245
      Glenfinlas, 245
      Goetz of Berlinchingen translated, 245
      Lady of the Lake, 247
      Lay of the Last Minstrel, 246
      Leonora, &c., translations of, 245
      Marmion, 247
      Miscellaneous Works, 250
      Novels, List of, 250
      Rokeby and Minor Poems, 249
      unpublished works, 255
      Waverley, 249
        Novels, 252
  Sea, depth of the, 427
  Sea-shore, changes on, 78
  Seal, a blind one, 298
  Seaman, knowing, 432
  Secret Lover, the, from the Persian, 204
  Servants affected by fashionable manners and customs, 331—­348
  Servants in India, 105
  Servant, monument to a faithful one, 288
  Servants, Vails to, 318
  Shark, adventure with, 381
  Shaving or throat-cutting, 272
  Shelly, the poet, anecdote of, 407
  Sheridan’s Funeral, 448
  Sheriff of London, Journal of, 196—­212
  Shrewsbury, Anna Maria, Countess of, 112
  Silk Manufacture, outline of, 446
  Skeleton Dance, from Goethe, 420
  Slave Trade in England, 319
  Smoking forbidden in Parliament, 336
  Snake, anecdote of a tame one, 327
  Snuff-boxes, Laurencekirk, 151
  Snuffers, antique, 337
  Soldier, annual cost of, 176
    dress of, 448
  Solecisms in Language, 350
  Somersetshire, land-custom in, 112
  Song from the Album of a Poet, 98
  Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 46
  Song, Scottish, 317
  Song-writing, spirit of, 11
  Sounds during the night, 107
  Spain, stupendous bridge in, 24
  Spaniards and Portuguese, 69
  Spencer’s account of the Irish Mantle, 415
  Spinning-wheel Song, 391
  Spirit of Despotism, by Dr. Knox, 106
  Spirit-drinking, evils of, 307
    in 1736, 133
  Spontaneous combustion, 162—­211
  Spring, harbingers of, 174
  St. Cross, Church and Hospital of, 217—­228
  St. Dunstan’s in the West, new church
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