The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits...that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Volume 2Charles Molloy Westmacott R. Phillips, 1825 |
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... Customs .... .... Examiner ... .... .... 427 428 428 429 1431 ·· 432 433 434 435 435 436 News of Literature & Fashion 437 John Bull Chronicle 437 438 440 441 Sunday Times 442 Herald 443 Examiner 449 Blackwood's Magazine 449 Value of ...
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... custom - the man actually asked ma ' whether she would have a rost - bif de mouton ; so little do they know anything about it . I send another portion of ma's diary ; you spelt it dairy in the paper : I don't know whether ma ' put it so ...
... custom - the man actually asked ma ' whether she would have a rost - bif de mouton ; so little do they know anything about it . I send another portion of ma's diary ; you spelt it dairy in the paper : I don't know whether ma ' put it so ...
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... custom , I eat every bit of it ; they call sparrow- grass here asperge , I could not find out why . " If I had not seen what wonderful men the French cooks are , who actually stew up shoes with partridges , and make very nice dishes too ...
... custom , I eat every bit of it ; they call sparrow- grass here asperge , I could not find out why . " If I had not seen what wonderful men the French cooks are , who actually stew up shoes with partridges , and make very nice dishes too ...
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... custom , we will recount a story of a ghost , which seems to possess all the de- sired requisites . At a town in the West of England , twenty - four- persons were accustomed to assemble once a week , to drink , smoke tobacco , and talk ...
... custom , we will recount a story of a ghost , which seems to possess all the de- sired requisites . At a town in the West of England , twenty - four- persons were accustomed to assemble once a week , to drink , smoke tobacco , and talk ...
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... custom of immemorial antiquity . The Romans , it is ob- served by an old writer on this subject , made presents even when their year consisted of only ten months , of thirty - six days each , and began in March , as well as when January ...
... custom of immemorial antiquity . The Romans , it is ob- served by an old writer on this subject , made presents even when their year consisted of only ten months , of thirty - six days each , and began in March , as well as when January ...
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Page 14 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 411 - GOOD night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite : Let us remain together still, Then it •will be good night. How can I call the lone night good, Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight? Be it not said, thought, understood, Then it will be good night.
Page 324 - Twixt soul and body a divorce, It could not sunder man and wife, 'Cause they both lived but one life. Peace, good reader, do not weep. Peace, the lovers are asleep. They, sweet turtles, folded lie In the last knot that love could tie.
Page 308 - I got five bay-leaves and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle ; and then if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it with salt; and when I went to bed, ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it.
Page 98 - They are also for the most part farmers to gentlemen, or at the leastwise artificers, and with grazing, frequenting of markets, and keeping of servants (not idle servants, as the gentlemen do, but such as get both their own and part of their master's living), do come to great wealth, insomuch that many of them are able and do buy the lands of unthrifty gentlemen...
Page 165 - Gentleman of three hundred pounds per annum, who commonly appeared in a plain drab or plush coat, large silver buttons, a jockey cap, and rarely without boots. His travels never exceeded the distance of the county town, and that only at assize and session time, or to attend an election. Once a week he commonly dined at the next market town, with the attornies and justices.
Page 531 - Alas ! the love of Women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 't is lost, Life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Page 354 - ... he gave, in return, an unworthy triumph to the unworthy, besides deep sorrow to those whose applause, in his cooler moments, he most valued. It was the same with his politics, which on several occasions assumed a tone menacing and contemptuous to the constitution of his country ; while, in fact, Lord Byron was in his own heart sufficiently sensible, not only of his privileges as a Briton, but of the distinction attending his high birth and rank, and was peculiarly sensitive of those shades which...
Page 53 - ... is not mere verbiage, but has a great deal of acuteness and meaning in it, which you would be glad to pick out if you could. In short, Mr. Bentham writes as if he was allowed but a single sentence to express his whole view of a subject in, and as if, should he...
Page 355 - Harold, nor any of the most beautiful of Byron's earlier tales , contain more exquisite morsels of poetry than are to be found scattered through the cantos of Don Juan...