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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832 by Various
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They're the good fellowes starres that shine out thro' the nighte.
You're a knave if you quit them till morning.
1st. to 2nd. You're a knave.
4th. to 3rd. You're a knave.
3rd. to 1st. You're a knave.
_Omnes._ He's a knave who forsakes them till morn.

P.S. The point of this song consists in each singer being called a knave
in turn.

M.L.E.

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_Ecstacy of Michael Angelo._--When the bronze gates of the baptistry of
the church of Florence were produced, Michael Angelo cried out with
emotion, at the sight of them, "that they deserved to be the gates of
Paradise." Casts of these gates may be seen in the Royal Academy, London.

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_Power of Knowledge over Brute Force._--There is a popular story, that a
student from Oxford was attacked by a wild boar, which issued from the
adjoining forest of Shotover, when he escaped by cramming down the throat
of the brute, a volume of Aristotle.

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COMPLETION of VOL. XIX. of THE MIRROR.

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