Category: Humour
The renown of the Scottish Metropolis,--that city of wonders and of wisdom, of palaces and of philosophy, of learned men and of lovely women, had sounded so long and so loudly in their ears, that toward the close of summer 1822, the Author of these pages and the Sovereign of t...
All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry, While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins H...
17. CHAPTER IX.IF there be one cause to which, more than others, we are to look for an explanation of those peculiarities that distinguish the inhabitants of one place from the inhabitants of...
16. CHAPTER VIII.IF there be nothing by which the Athens really profits so much as her law, there is nothing of which she is so ready, or so willing to boast, as her literature. That is, as it w...
10. CHAPTER II.THE movements of a people of so much gusto, and grace, and gravity, as those who had interposed their thickening clouds between my vision and those municipal and mental glories...
13. CHAPTER V.“As when the sea breaks o’er its bounds, And overflows the level grounds, Those banks and dams, that, like a screen, Did keep it out, now keep it in; So, when tyrannic usurpatio...
15. CHAPTER VII.----“As a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet, To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he’s in the self-same...
14. CHAPTER VI.----“Lawyers have more sober sense Than t’ argue at their own expense, But make their best advantages Of others’ quarrels, like the Swiss; And out of foreign controversies, By a...
12. CHAPTER IV.IN point of diversity of situation and beauty, and durability of building materials, few cities have the same advantages as the Athens; and I know of no city, of which the gener...
9. CHAPTER I.The renown of the Scottish Metropolis,--that city of wonders and of wisdom, of palaces and of philosophy, of learned men and of lovely women, had sounded so long and so loudly i...
19. CHAPTER XI.“In Ethiopia there is a lizard, Green on the grass, but golden on the sand, Of slender form and many-tinctured skin: Of this, when you suppose that you have counted The tints an...
18. CHAPTER X.BEFORE you can at all characterize the manners of the Athenians, you must have known them long and intimately, and even then it is difficult to be correct. In most things they a...
2. CHAPTER II.8. CHAPTER XI.3. CHAPTER III.1. CHAPTER I.5. CHAPTER VI.6. CHAPTER VIII.7. CHAPTER IX.4. CHAPTER V.