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... Ceapideor Fleet-street knows: much that, caunnte ernc aii fis ?? hedgerows., 't 'has grownl bblder, aidd yet warier.- It' will pick 'Its'..fbid as 'securely amid, the roaring traflklc'as if it had a. chdrth~d' life, and it looks upon afternoon tca in:'.Hyde ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Darrell (he was picked out of the Thames by Mr Wood, and adopted by that ex. cellent Samaritan ; hence his name; and having been bred up a carpenter, and secured the affections of Miss Wood, is kidnapped and flung into the sea, again picked up and handed ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... his readers will digest it. The volumes abound in statements equally absurd and false. Throwing the2se on one-side, as the garbage of - a prejudiced, narrow mind, we give the following ex- citing description of A STEAM-BOAT RACE. As it may interest soene ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... heavy iron chain round their neck, wandering about the town in quest of food to satisfy the crav. ings of nature, picking up bones and garbage of every descrip. tion from the dung-heaps, snails from the fields, and frogs froik the ditches, and when the tide ...

THE CAPITALISTS' WAR

... occttpationus which had to he seen to; so one day vhen ordered to turn oat and march they threw down their rifles and refused to pick them up. The authorities then threstened to turn the gles ou them. Tle Colonials promptly licked ?? their rifies aud loaded ...

LITERATURE AND ART

... a heavy iron chain round the neck, wandering about the town in quest of food to satisfy the cravings of nature, picking up bones and garbage of every description from the dung-heaps, snails from the fields, and flogs from the ditches, and. when the tide ...

Published: Sunday 22 March 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5605 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... with a loop-hole in It, commanding a view of the temple's f'ont-notbing Intervening be- tween it and the creek but a heap of garbage. The door was within a few yards of the ereek, which runs at a rlght anglo with the main had of the river. It was empty and ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... -Fofidha, 'when, amidst a hail-storni of shot, Changarnier: handed hi n some splendid Lwild -grapes~ that-^he - had 'just picked,-wsith the words, Hl~ere my dear colonel, take this: you must Want refreshment after such g'lorious- fatigues.'t ?? Amongst ...

LITERATURE

... pleasantry wounds more than it exhilarates, to speak of a book of Shelley's as the favourite quarry of a host of prurient garbage-seekers. No one knows better than the critic that the writings of Shelley contain no single passage, although the writings ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... indeed it seems the only harmless amusement of the rich. Servants who will stay with .you, are the rarities of Mexico. You may pick up priceless diamonds in abundance, but look in vain for a faithful kitchen-maid. 4A girl will go to service merely to earn ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... perience. These especially point to the direct transference of disease by media charged with the products of decom- posing garbage. Professor Rudolph Virchow, the most eminent living pathologist, an authority whose utterances on all questions of the propagation ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... In his last days the brilliant gambler had no one to smooth his pillow but a lorette, whom he saw when he was near death picking from his shelves his choicest specimens of old Sevres china, on which, turning to his doctor, he said with a smile, Qu'elle ...