The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. (London: J. Limbird, 1823). |
Friday, May 30, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Stung by the Remarks of Some Mischief-Makers, He Intruded Upon His Wife's Privacy, and Found Her in Mermaid Form Disporting Herself in Her Bath. She Gave One Piercing Shriek and Then Vanished For Ever. (1895)
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
The Manner in Which the Fudge Mermaid Was Said to Be Captured. A Fancy Sketch. (1856)
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
This Is None of Your Regular Old Style Mermaids Made Out of a Fish and a Monkey. I Tell You She's A Genuwine Mermaid What Sings and Swims and Combs Her Hair and Talks (1896)
Monday, May 26, 2014
One Can Easily Imagine That the Double Tail, Like the Twin Screws of an Ironclad or Ocean Liner, Might Be of Great Assistance in Steering. (1895)
Friday, May 23, 2014
Thursday, May 22, 2014
The Mermaid Comes Back to Sleepy Tönnis. "I Desire Not Your Death," She Replied (1899)
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
People Only Got to Know That He Had Been Caught by a Mermaid Out on the Deep Sea and Had Been Her Guest During the Three Days That He Was Missing (1904)
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The Peasant & the Mermaid (1885)
Monday, May 19, 2014
He Only Succeeded in Overbalancing Himself & Over He Went & Sank to the Bottom of the Sea Like a Lump of Lead & Was Never Heard of Any More (1895)
Friday, May 16, 2014
"Out of the Ocean You Came," He Said . . . "Mermaid! The Name Is Poetry and the Story Is Romance." (1920)
Thursday, May 15, 2014
The Prisoner's Life Was to Be Spared Only on Condition That Within Three Days He Should Obtain Possession of the Golden Mermaid Whom Hitherto No Mortal Had Ever Approached (1906)
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
John Smith in 1614, Near the New Continent, Spies—Her Tresses Green and Long—the Siren of America Gracefully Swimming (1875)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
"The Time Is Come," Cried the Unearthly Being. "The Time Is Come; A Human Eye Looks on the Forms of Ocean, A Human Ear Has Heard Their Voices." On the Next Wave They Followed the Coffin (1904)
Monday, May 12, 2014
The Mermaids of Honor, Like the Dames of the Earth, Were Much Given to Prying (1808).
Friday, May 9, 2014
A Beautiful Tail Like a Fish, With Which She Swam (1891)
Thursday, May 8, 2014
A Hundred Miles from Shore in the Sea Valleys Where the Herrings Hide (1904)
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
The Mermaid and the Boy (1914)
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
The Effigies of a Sea Devil (1649)
Monday, May 5, 2014
Old Eric Catches the Mermaid's Son (1904)
Friday, May 2, 2014
Battle with the Devil-Fish (1888)
Thursday, May 1, 2014
The Molucca Siren (1885)
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