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The roaring pell-mell of the principal thoroughfares of London is curiously contrasted with the calm seclusion which is often found at no great distance in certain lanes, courts, and passages, and the effect is not a little heightened when in these by-places we light upon some...
Poor Delessert ground his teeth with rage, but the expression of his anger would avail nothing; and, yielding to hard necessity, he at length, after much wrangling, became the p...
4. Chapter 4It is curious that the people who first fixed the stigma of melancholy upon our bird--the Greeks, or at least the Athenians, and it is of them we speak--were perhaps the very ga...
3. Chapter 3In the midst of all this diversity, the question was, What were the proper proportions? or, in other words, What proportions constituted a handsome figure? and here our vestiari...
1. Chapter 1The roaring pell-mell of the principal thoroughfares of London is curiously contrasted with the calm seclusion which is often found at no great distance in certain lanes, courts...
5. Chapter 5The next person brought up was of a more interesting character--Anne Turner, the widow of a physician. It is stated in the Report, that when she appeared at the bar, the chief-j...
6. Chapter 6Mr Robert Chambers, in a recent tour of the lakes of Westmoreland (April 1852), has discovered that the valleys of that interesting district were at one time occupied by glacier...