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MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... disposed of. One night, I shall never forget it, I bad been to the opera of San Carlos, and was picking my way to my lodging through the intolerable filth and garbage of the streets of Lisbon, defending myself from the dogs and rats by which they were then ...

Published: Sunday 27 January 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2965 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 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 ...

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 

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...