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THE FRAUDULENT BANKER

... worse than a common pick-purse, ap Not only because his theft's greater, St But, having been taught to do what lie ought, N Because he tarns villain and traitor. He sins not from need, but out of mere greed. The crows, after garbage that lianker, And ravens ...

Art and Literature

... watchman on the pier told me that they live chiefly on the garbage, they save enough money in a few years to go home as a count and spree it a while, and then return from sunny Italy to claw over the garbage of New York. Now and then they allow their wives and ...

THE GUTTER LITERATURE OF THE STAGE

... be all-embracing. Suppose, for instance, that a man were to start to walk from the north of London to the south, and were to pick his way through the filthiest slums of Soho and Drury-lane, and were to print an account of his journey, would that be accepted ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HUMOROUS GATHERINGS

... what he ought; - I Because he turns'villaidi and traitor. He sins not from need,'but out of mere greed. The crows, after garbage that hanker, And ravens are white-a nice bird is the kite, Compared to the fraudulent banker. - A burglar is bad, and so's ...

THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS

... abandoned rakes, Old comedy wvill live: it dies we find, Seen in the mirror of a muddy mind; 'Tis with the prudes you all should pick a quarrel, Who smirk and say, Old plays are so immoral ! Mr. Scott is perhaps a little too enthusiastic over his author ...

THE LIFE OF A DOG

... in fact, by the pithy phrase in the sad category of all that are desolate and oppressed. Withy a dog's life should be picked out as it sort of synonym for this, may not at first sight appear so manifest as to make us recognise at once the fall aptness ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... butter for the break- fast. Other ehildren had already commenced the day's usual routine of playing in the gutter, and picking up such garbage as might serve to compensate fer the scantiness of the meal whereof they had partaken in-doors. _ Mysteries of the ...

LEONARD LINDSAY

... excitement by the charlatan arts of the Dumnas and Sue school of tic- tion-;noligers, goes clutching and tearing through their garbage volumes with an avidity which leaves him no real thought for the author's work, inasmuch as it is that reader's own nature ...

SOME OF THE MARCH MAGAZINES

... to roost at night. As soon as daylight appeared, they all flew off to their favourite resorts, where they lived upon the garbage of the city; and it must be admitted in their favour that they are most useful scavengers. But when sunset came they used ...

THE FANCIERS' COLUMN

... kennlel. All dogs re more or less scaven- gers by nature, and it is largely owing to this objectiou- able hahit of picking up filthy garbage that the trouble first begins, so that we ainnot be too strict on this point. Syiirvous.-is a ratter of fact, tho ...

LITERARY NOTES

... The other day, when speak- ing of Sarah Barnum, we noticed American enterprise in catering for this class of literary garbage. However, there is still some sense of modesty left, if the following story, told of a young lady who moves in the very ...

LITERATURE

... approaching fro nm without. In the villages they are tI meat and Clesn, the Vl.feet being swept, and ail garbage- hi except, indeed, the w, 't--picked bones of their human sub- d, jeets-is threwn oat. t After visiting the house assigned me, I wras taken ...