English Eccentri
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共 42 段- Upon one memorable occasion Mr. Beckford was willing to run
- Gifford says (_Ben Jonson_, VI. 481) that Beckford never utt
- We have said that Brummel's grandfather was a pastrycook. Hi
- Another plate represents Mytton with his shirt in flames. "D
- The Marriage Law of Scotland did not exact that there should
- Mary Moser was the only daughter of George Michael Moser, R.
- The sudden death of an old lady who was a neighbour made a d
- The history of the Denison family, the last representative o
- Not long after this unhappy occurrence, a fresh recruit, a n
- Among the anecdotes which floated about it is related that C
- In the year 1863 there was living in the village of Newton B
- Mr. Guy was possessed of considerable property, and was a na
- In the spring of 1771, Walpole's house in Arlington Street w
- Irving likewise established _The Morning Watch_ for the sole
- It was now deemed necessary, to satisfy certain worldly doub
- No sooner was the discovery published than the faithful as w
- [28] Selected and abridged from an excellent paper on Huntin
- About the middle of the last century there died near Manches
- There was, however, an Essex man, who not only attained a gr
- This singular being lived to the extraordinary age of ninety
- In the Forest of Hainault, in Essex, about a mile from Barki
- "1836.--Last week died Lord George Germaine, brother to the
- "I remember that for months during these, to my brother, amu
- John Thomas Smith sketching the Scene.]
- From Mr. Wright's curious and interesting _England under the
- "These stories are scarcely credible, yet there can be no do
- One rainy morning, Nollekens, after confession, invited his
- John Thomas Smith notes: "1822. In October this year the ven
- Dowton undervalued Edmund Kean, whose merit he never could b
- During the Christmas of 1810 or 1811, Mr. T. P. Cooke was a
- Lewis, it should be explained, was well supplied with money,
- Porson, when a young man, was eminently handsome, and nearly
- For many years Tooke was the terror of judges, ministers of
- Sydney Smith ludicrously compared Canning in office to a fly
- Dr. Syntax's _Tour in Search of the Picturesque_ was a large
- There have been many instances of the indulgence of book col
- induced him to have recourse again to his lively vein. He pu
- Science and Philosophy have had their victims; and those, th
- "After this came the mace-bearer, then the herauld-at-arms,
- Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn,
- "If Twiss had applied to me (I wish he had, for Lord Eldon's
- "A was an Army, to settle disputes;