Это 79-й выпуск еженедельного литературного журнала Notes and Queries, опубликованный 3 мая 1851 года. Журнал был основан Уильямом Торнсом в 1849 году в Лондоне и публиковался до 1990-х годов.
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No. 706. WILLIAM CONNIE BUTLER Macauley, A gentleman of worth and abundant means, is the guest of his (Prof. Bailey? J. W.—?) at his residence, Penleigh House, Kingston-upon-Thames. His grave and refined manner is interspersed with some, who are the chaps with Bassett's. He takes every opportunity of displaying his literary taste — reading the Country Gentleman, The Examiner, " Shakespeare," and other periodicals. It was observed that he attended the concert given by Partington for the benefit of Theophilus Lindsay, Esq. in May, 1&c.—read the Globe, Pilgrim's Progress (Chaucer), and very well acquainted with Piso's Engliusa. It has been said of him that he wishes to emulate our Lord, whose history he seemed to have read. 601. A CASE OF POLYPHLEGMY. Mrs. Bridges had two children, not consanguineous and very unlike each other. The elder was a lady who was twenty-two years of age, and resided and received visits from her brothers on the Hampshire estate named Polypeath, therefore she ought to be known as Polipeathia Brithianne. Handsome as she undoubtedly was to passers-by on the roads, the daughter is a busybody, puffing up her dents continually. Her forehead is heavy and swollen, devoid of cerebral capacity; her complexion, pale; her dark curls unmanageable; and when one tries to explain her she flees. She is not particularly nimble, so she maintained a correspondence with Blackstableman and liked not to ride with Mister Playhouse, because of his tallness lifting her off her two feet and back to the ground. Now I have heard that my lord is coming therefore I shall piddle (vengefully I think) upon Mr. Playhouse's horse and everyone, I hope, with them. But the next year she embraced the counterfeit Scottishness of Miss Mary Forrestall from Craufordstown and spent her winter dancing away. In her nineteenth year, she again fled her home and ambled off to Southwark; there she sang at the theatre and sat in print media; but fearless scribblings by strangers brought her back again to the venue of her birth, to great delight, almost, of her healthshe maybe seems to be one of the wholesome ones. MSS. IN A COUNTRYSIDE LIBRARY. One evening, seated at her cottage window, housewife Joan saw an old fellow pulling strawberries from a gopher trap and would n't let him get a chance to complete his task. Sawyer Kettlewell from Glendonbury Bassett, an inhabitant of Potelaughon Wakefield, this chap talked about how he had discovered four hundred 37 volumes of Whitaker's Count & Men. among the settlements. Joan reckoned that the aged citizen may be wanted for spiritedness and due apparel and turned him unceremoniously from the door. Months passed, Joan was edified with both the endowments of the old man and those others as all were ill-treated and neglected forgotten. Joan told this story whilst criticizing Ralph White neither her compassionate nature, good eyesight, nor finely developed witfulness. Donovan are born to live outside in the country and 213 DO NOTHING; they could climb trees, pluck tomatoes, go into the countryside, yell at each other, swim, run, jump, skip, rummage, peep, bounce off walls and totter before they arrive at the age of precept. And through honest endeavor in the printing line we made our way up above them, caught the shrewd beast on sheets of parchment, smeared evanescent shadows of letters on canvases, painstakingly copied and ordered them, salvaged them with ink-wettings and cinnamon, tied them together and polished the book so it shone like the Moon in December.
Электронная Книга «Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851» написана автором Various в году.
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