The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ powers much impaired—if the tongue be dry, and its edges more than commonly red, vegetable diet ought to be considerably restricted. Peas, beans, the different kinds of greens, and all raw fruits, should be avoided, and potatoes, properly boiled, with turnips and carrots, ought to constitute the only varieties. I have seen the skins of peas, the stringy fibres of greens, and the seeds of raspberries and strawberries, pass through the bowels no further changed, than by their exposure to maceration; and it is not necessary to point out the irritation which their progress must have produced, as they passed over the excited and irritable surface of the alimentary canal.

      THE SKETCH-BOOK

      COWES REGATTA

A SCENE IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT(For the Mirror.)

      The crowded yachts were anchor'd in the roads,

      To view the contest for a kingly prize;

      Voluptuous beauty smil'd on Britain's lords,

      And fashion dazzled with her thousand dyes;

      And far away the rival barks were seen,

      (The ample wind expanding every sail)

      To climb the billows of the watery green,

      As stream'd their pennons on the favouring gale:

      The victor vessel gain'd the sovereign boon;

      The gothic palace and the gay saloon,

      Begemm'd with eyes that pierc'd the hiding veil,

      Echoed to music and its merry glee

      And cannon roll'd its thunder o'er the sea,

      To greet that vessel for her gallant sail.

Sonnets on Isle of Wight Scenery

      To those readers of the MIRROR who have not witnessed an Isle of Wight Regatta, a description of that fête may not be uninteresting. From the days assigned to the nautical contest, we will select that on which his Majesty's Cup was sailed for, on Monday, the 13th of August, 1827, as the most copious illustration of the scene; beginning with Newport, the fons et origo of the "doings" of that remembered day. Dramatically speaking, the scene High-street, the time "we may suppose near ten o'clock," A.M.; all silent as the woods which skirt the river Medina, so that to hazard a gloomy analogy, you might presume that some plague had swept away the population from the sunny streets; the deathlike calm being only broken by the sounds of sundry sashes, lifted by the dust-exterminating housemaid; or the clattering of the boots and spurs of some lonely ensign issuing from the portals of the Literary Institution, condemned to lounge away his hours in High-street. The solitary adjuncts of the deserted promenade may be comprised in the loitering waiter at the Bugle, amusing himself with his watch-chain, and anxiously listening for the roll of some welcome carriage—the sullen urchin, reluctantly wending his way to school, whilst

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      We frequently hear of people being muscled; and it is generally supposed that the mischief is produced by some specifically poisonous quality in the fish. I have seen many cases, but I could discover nothing to confirm this po

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We frequently hear of people being muscled; and it is generally supposed that the mischief is produced by some specifically poisonous quality in the fish. I have seen many cases, but I could discover nothing to confirm this popular opinion. In some instances, only one of a family has been affected, while all partook of the same muscles. I have known exactly the same symptoms produced by pork, lobsters, and other shell-fish, and can attribute them to nothing more than an aggravated state of indigestion.

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