Mirror of the Months

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When the palm of merit is to be awarded among the Months, it is usual to assign it to May by acclamation. But if the claim depends on the sum of delight which each witnesses or...

Finally, now appear, towards the latter end of the month, those flowers that actually belong to Spring--that do not either herald her approach, or follow in her train, but are i...

"When soothed awhile by milder airs, Thee Winter in the garland wears That thinly shades his few gray hairs; Spring cannot shun thee; And Autumn, melancholy wight, Doth in thy c...

During the Monday our determined holiday maker, as in duty bound, contrives, by the aid of a little or not a little artificial stimulus, to be happy in a tolerably exemplary man...

Must we, after all this pleasant expatiation among the natural delights of May, repair to the metropolis, and see whether there is any thing worthy of remark among the artificia...

Now, also, we meet with several new objects among the animated part of the creation, a few only of which we must stay to notice.--Now, the Grasshopper vaults merrily in the mead...

At last Summer _is_ come among us, and her whole world of wealth is spread out before us in prodigal array. The Woods and Groves have darkened and thickened into one impervious...

At the English Opera-house the Managers, (Mr. Peake),--for fear the public, amid the refreshing coolness of the Upper Boxes, should forget that it is Summer time,--transfer the...

But, enough of philosophy--even of that which is intended to cure us of philosophizing. Let us get into the air and the sunshine again; which can bid us be happy in spite of all...

But we have some other pretty sights belonging to the open country, which must not be passed over; and one which the whole year, in point of time, and the whole world, in point...

Now, too, is the time for employing another and an equally fertile and interesting mode of propagation; that by means of offsets, suckers, cuttings, partings, &c. Now, in short,...

Perhaps I may now safely return to my duty, of depicting the several unamiable aspects which the face of November is apt to assume; and which, in my lover-like disposition to "s...

Now, during the first week, the Theatres having begun to prepare "the Grand Christmas Pantomime, which has been in active preparation all the Summer," the Carpenter for the time...