Category: Poetry
As well as very bad implements and worse eyes will permit me to do it by candlelight, I will endeavor to make some return to your kind letter, which I received, not by Quashee, but the mail. I also got a short note by him, for which I thank you.
As well as very bad implements and worse eyes will permit me to do it by candlelight, I will endeavor to make some return to your kind letter, which I received, not by Quashee,...
2. LETTER II.MY GOOD FRIEND—I am sorry that Quashee should intrude upon you unreasonably. The old man, I suppose, knows the pleasure I take in your letters, and therefore feels anxious to pr...
3. LETTER III.Your obliging promptitude deserved my speedier thanks, but you will excuse me I am sure, my dear sir, when you learn that I have been for several days confined to my chamber by...
4. Chapter II is occupied with the forms, rules, regulations, &c. of theHouse, and is also very entertaining. Among other things, we have here a denial of the common assertion that the Lord Chancellor carries the Great Seal before him when advancing...
5. Chapter III consists of “Miscellaneous Observations,” contrasts thegeneral deportment of the House of Lords with that of the House of Commons, and rejoices that the art of cock-crowing is yet to be learned by the Peers, and that their Lordships...
6. Chapter IV is entitled “_Scenes in the House_,” and gives a detailedreport of two of the most extraordinary of these _scenes_—one occurring in April 1831, on occasion of the King's dissolving Parliament—the other in July 1834, when the Duke of B...
7. Volume one commences with a _Prelude of Mottoes_ occupying two pages.Then follows a _Postscript_—then a _Table of Contents to the first volume_, occupying eighteen pages. Volume two has a similar _Prelude of Mottoes_ and _Table of Contents_. The...