Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)
    Ebook80 pages58 minutes

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)

    By Various Various

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)

    Read more from Various Various

    Related to The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Drinking In The Art

      Jul 1, 2020

      Drinking In The Art
      5 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Nov 24, 2022

      Woman About Town
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Madness of Venice

      Apr 2, 2018

      1. I lived in Venice for two years, and I hated it. In conversations I used euphemisms and turns of phrase (among my favorite either you love it or hate it! and it’s a… difficult city), but I was lying through my teeth. I fucking hated it

      10 min read

    • Article

      Beyond Satire

      Jan 26, 2023

      THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE to be seen as devotees of the Muses are having a fine old time squealing about the Proletcult-style despoliation of the arts in Britain, with public funding being withdrawn by a Visigothic Arts Council from their frivolous pleasu

      3 min read

    • Article

      Pleasures Of The Plague Year

      Nov 26, 2020

      IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, visitors to the Grand Canal could rejoice in a spectacle even stranger and more wonderful than the preposterous beauty of that great sweep of water which forms part of the imagination of the world. A floating glass furnace, an ini

      3 min read

    • Article

      Robert Thicknesse on Opera

      Apr 27, 2023

      I WAS AS EXCITED AS everyone else to learn that opera actually exists in New Zealand — two things surely linked before only by their joint gold for the world’s least fashionable phenomena. Not only that, but it turns out that Kiwis have a thriving ne

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Island (catullus 64)

      Mar 1, 2022

      Back then the evergreens tumbled downriverfrom the glaze-white runoff to the boot-stirred puddlesof amber young men who fulfilled our destiny,who clambered into ships, on horses, and in wagonspainting the newfound landscapes ours.Our calling was nobl

      9 min read

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      Open FOR Pleasure

      Jun 29, 2021

      Open FOR Pleasure
      5 min read

    • Article

      Make A Spectacle Of Oneself

      Oct 27, 2022

      AWARE THAT QUEEN Elizabeth I said to Robert Cecil, a much greater man than I, “Little man, little man: must is not a word to be used to princes,” I am hesitant to address my new Sovereign Lord with the word “must”. But the Coronation must not be a se

      3 min read

    • Article

      THIS MONTH In Print

      May 5, 2022

      Emiko Davies, Hardie Grant, £20.00 (hardback) If you are a follow of Emiko Davies on Instagram (@emikodavies – her posts are a real treat), you will have followed her gastronomic adventures around Venice in search of cicchetti on her feed a year or s

      3 min read

    • Article

      My Golden Book Of Hours

      Jun 1, 2022

      My Golden Book Of Hours
      4 min read

    • Article

      In the Name of Notre Dame

      Apr 17, 2019

      In the Name of Notre Dame
      11 min read

    • Article

      Apparition

      Mar 26, 2020

      Apparition
      8 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Jun 30, 2022

      Woman About Town
      3 min read

    • Article

      Modern Fairy Tale

      May 20, 2018

      Modern Fairy Tale
      4 min read

    • Article

      Music Richard Osborne

      Sep 22, 2021

      EDINBURGH’S FALSTAFF In the late 1960s, as I waited for the curtain to go up on a matinée performance in Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre, I confided to one of the city’s fabled Morningside ladies that I was tempted to move to Edinburgh, so addicted had I

      3 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky

      May 12, 2020

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky
      7 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Apr 27, 2023

      THE SHOW BY MEXICAN ARTIST Bosco Sodi at the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani divided opinion in Venice last year. What Goes Around Comes Around was described as a reconfiguring of the journey of raw materials which had conventionally flowed just one way in

      3 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Feb 23, 2023

      MESTRE MIGHT BE the most hideous town in Italy. Venice’s ugly sister snarls rather than sprawls at the edge of the lagoon, a hopeless tangle of railway, flyover, flimsy high-rise hotels and the curdled bitterness of the millions of tourists who have

      3 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Feb 23, 2023

      MESTRE MIGHT BE the most hideous town in Italy. Venice’s ugly sister snarls rather than sprawls at the edge of the lagoon, a hopeless tangle of railway, flyover, flimsy high-rise hotels and the curdled bitterness of the millions of tourists who have

      3 min read

    • Article

      Venetian Tryst

      Apr 11, 2023

      Venetian Tryst
      5 min read

    Reviews for The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 340, Supplementary Number (1828), by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 340, Supplementary Number (1828)

      Author: Various

      Release Date: March 2, 2004 [eBook #11406]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: iso-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 12, ISSUE 340, SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER (1828)***

      E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Michael Hermen, David Garcia,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      THE MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

      Vicenza.

      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—till their splendour has fairly put out the light of our sinumbra, and the drabs, blues, and yellows of sober, business-like quartos and octavos. Seven out of nine of these elegant little books are in watered silk bindings; and an ingenious lady-friend has favoured us with the calculation that the silk used in covering the presumed number sold (70,000) would extend five miles, or from Hyde Park Corner to Turnham Green.

      Brilliant as may be their exteriors, their contents are, as Miss Jane Porter says of her heroines, transcendently beautiful. But of these we shall present our readers with some exquisite specimens. Our only trouble in this task is the embarras du richesses with which we are surrounded; otherwise it is to us an exhaustless source of delight, especially when we consider the gentle feelings and affections which this annual distribution will cherish, and the innumerable intertwinings of hands and hearts which this shower of bon-bons will produce; and such warm friends are we to this social scheme, that our presentation copies are already in the fair hands whither we had destined them.

      We begin with the parent-stock,

      The Forget-Me-Not.

      Edited by Frederic Shoberl, Esq.

      The present volume, in its graphic and literary attractions is decidedly superior to that of last year, an improvement which makes us credit what the Ettrick Shepherd says of the proprietor—There's no a mair just, nay, generous man in his dealings wi' his authors, in a' the tredd, than Mr. Ackermann.

      This beautiful Annual contains the original of our ENGRAVING, from a plate by A. Freebairn, after an admirable picture by S. Prout, of which the following story is illustrative:—

      THE MAGICIAN OF VICENZA.

      In the year 1796, on one of the finest evenings of an Italian autumn, when the whole population of the handsome city of Vicenza were pouring into the streets to enjoy the fresh air, that comes so deliciously along the currents of its three rivers; when the Campo Marzo was crowded with the opulent citizens and Venetian nobles; and the whole ascent, from the gates to the Madonna who sits enthroned on the summit of Monte Berrico, was a line of the gayest pilgrims that ever wandered up the vine-covered side of an Alpine hill; the ears of all were caught by the sound of successive explosions from a boat running down the bright waters of the Bachiglione. Vicenza was at peace, under the wing of the lion of St. Mark, but the French were lying round the ramparts of Mantua. They had not yet moved on Venice; yet her troops were known to be without arms, experience, or a general, and the sound of a cracker would have startled her whole dominions.

      The boat itself was of a singular make; and the rapidity with which this little chaloupe, glittering with gilding and hung with streamers, made its way along the sparkling stream, struck the observers as something extraordinary. It flew by every thing on the river, yet no one was visible on board. It had no sail up, no steersman, no rower; yet it plunged and rushed along with the swiftness of a bird. The Vicentine populace are behind none of their brethren in superstition, and at the sight of the flying chaloupe, the groups came running from the Campo Marzo. The Monte Berrico was speedily left without a pilgrim, and the banks of the Bachiglione were, for the first time since the creation, honoured with the presence of the Venetian authorities, and even of the sublime podesta [the governor, a Venetian noble.] himself.

      But it was fortunate for them that the flying phenomenon had reached the open space formed by the conflux of the three rivers, before the crowd became excessive; for, just as it had darted out from the narrow channel,

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1