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GREAT PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P

... where your Aldermen of the Ward and Common Council ? T'hey still, it is true, batten on the wretched peculation of ofliciat garbage, but, like rats in a barn, they are in eternal appre- hension lest the terriers should be let in among them. For three years ...

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 ...

POLITICAL TALE OF A TUB

... upon him; another they hung up by the heels to make him disgorge; the remainder, after being pelted with rotten eggs and garbage, and kicked, buffetted, worried, and pummelled nearly to death, got off the estate, and never shewed face again during the ...

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 Extracts

... possessed the faculty of touching the heart by his th 5 this voice without deviating into anything like theaitrical display, in pick; beyond any orator I ever heard in public. His deep tones, Ic tar in'. whlich occurred very rarely, and very shortly, and only ...

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 ...