The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 482, March 26, 1831

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 482, March 26, 1831

BRAY CHURCH

ANOTHER OLD SONG

ROSEDALE ABBEY

PORTRAIT OF STERNE

EPITOME OF THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF POLAND

THE HOUR OF PHANTASY

MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS

APPLICANTS FOR THE FLITCH OF DUNMOW

THE BORROWING DAYS

THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

MARINO FALIERO

THE SKETCH-BOOK

FAIRY FAVOURS

THE ELFIN TRIUMPHAL SONG

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

MR. HUNT, M.P. FOR PRESTON

TRUTH

SCENE FROM "THE FROGS OF ARISTOPHANES"

NOTES OF A READER

LAYING A GHOST

A SCHOOLMASTER "ABROAD."

PLANTING

EPITAPH

MURDER OF THE LAIRD OF WARRISTON, BY HIS OWN WIFE

SOUND

ECHOES

THE GATHERER

PATHETIC EPITAPH

GAMBLING OF HENRY THE EIGHTH

ALDERMAN KENNETT

VALENTINE'S DAY

PITT'S DIAMOND

ANCESTRY

A LITERARY KISS

EPITAPH ON A WATCHMAKER,

ANNUAL OF SCIENCE

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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 to the illustration of our pages. There is no sinister motive in the selection; but if we have hit the white, or rather the black, of such variableness, "let the galled jade wince," and pay the Mirror the stale compliment of veluti in speculum.

Bray is a small village about one mile from Maidenhead, and its name would have remained "unsaid, unsung," had it not been for its never-enough-to-be-ridiculed Vicar. Camden supposes Bray to have been occupied by the Bibroci, who submitted to Caesar, and obtained his protection, and with it a secure possession of one of the most beautiful spots in this county; so that submissiveness seems to have been the very air of the place in all times. Philippa, the queen of Edward III., had rents assigned to her from this and the adjoining manor of Cookham. It is now considered as part of the royal domain, being attached to the liberties of Windsor Castle, and retaining some peculiar privileges, among which is an exemption from tolls in the adjacent market-towns. In default of male heirs, lands are not divided here among females of the same degree of kindred, but descend solely to the eldest. The church is "a spacious structure," says the Windsor Guide, and "composed of various materials, and exhibiting a mixture of almost every style of architecture," says the "Beauties of England and Wales;" but we leave the reader to his own conclusion from our Engraving, sketched in the summer of last year. We take for granted the church does not change in appearance every year, if its Vicar once did in creed.

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Roi des Violons, or King of the Fiddlers, was anciently a title in France. It became defunct, in 1685, owing to anarchy—thus harmony and discord cannot agree.

As many of the pages of your extensively-circulated little work have preserved memorials of Laurence Sterne, I hope you can spare room for the underwritten extract, from a letter of his to Mr. Garrick, dated Paris, March, 1762, and which may be seen in Vol I. of Mrs. Medalle's "Letters of the late L. Sterne."

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