Natural History of the Idler Upon TownBogue, 1848 - 120 pàgines |
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Pàgina 50 - And shower'd the rippled ringlets to her knee; Unclad herself in haste; adown the stair Stole on; and, like a creeping sunbeam, slid From pillar unto pillar, until she reach'd The gateway; there she found her palfrey trapt In purple blazon'd with armorial gold.
Pàgina 50 - The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout Had cunning eyes to see : the barking cur Made her cheek flame : her palfrey's footfall shot Light horrors thro' her pulses : the blind walls Were full of chinks and holes ; and overhead Fantastic gables, crowding, stared : but she Not less thro...
Pàgina 19 - ... fancy stationer's, and criticizes the water-colour albumified views of Venice and Constantinople, all neutral tint and burnt sienna ; or falls in love with the impassioned head of La Esmeralda, and regrets such symmetrical young ladies do not dance about the streets at the present day ; his attention only being withdrawn from the beautiful gipsy by two portraits of mortal angels in very low dresses, one of whom is asleep at one corner of the window, and the second combing her hair at the other.
Pàgina 19 - ... of the window, and the second combing her hair at the other. He peers into all the artificial flower shops, to see what hidden divinities are therein concealed by the bowers of tinted gauze and tinsel ; and having admired the languishing ladies and very nice gentlemen in the hair-dressers...
Pàgina 42 - They lounge on from one scene to the other, without a trace of their preceding occupation being visible. An Idler has been known on the best authority, if by chance a ticket for Her Majesty's Theatre has fallen in his way, to leave its elegant audience as soon as the Prima Donna has concluded her finale in the opera, and having deliberately entered the nearest retail establishment, has then and there quietly imbibed a pint of half-and-half; after which he has returned in time for the opening tableau...
Pàgina 18 - The covered passage through which the overland journey from Burlington Gardens to Piccadilly is generally performed so abounds in objects of amusement to the lounger that, in point of cheap happiness, it becomes a perfect Burlington Arcadia. He can pass a whole afternoon therein, with the additional comfortable feeling of Burlington Arcadia security from any unexpected shower.
Pàgina 63 - Johnson blew his cloud — we are not exactly following his lexicographical definition of words — by the side of the old-fashioned fire-place, and occasionally floored some unhappy wight with the sledge-hammer of his conversation — specimens of which are so agreeably brought in amongst the anecdotes of the Colossus of our language which sparkle in Boswell's autobiography.
Pàgina 20 - ... redcheeks, and white-teeth school — he reads the backs of all the foreign works imported by Jeffs ; and finally loses himself in an earthly paradise of painted snuff-boxes, parasols, popular music, and perfumery ; together with certain articles of ladies
Pàgina 50 - He first stops at the Walhalla and is riveted by the woodcut of Madame Warton, as Godiva, after Mr. Landseer's forthcoming picture. And then — wicked old fellow — he almost wishes he had been Peeping Tom, when the real wife of the grim Leofric performed her daring act of horsemanship.