Noetes Ambrosianae (3 ) (English, French, Paperback)

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1854 edition. Extrait: ...gargling Italian half-way down your throat" North. What temperature, James? Shepherd. Nearly up at egg-boiling. But you had better, sirs, be makin' anither jug--for that ane was geyan sair dune afore I left you--and I maun hae a glass of het and het as sune as I come out, to prevent me takin' the cauld. I hope there's nae current o' air in the room. Wha's this that bled himsell to death in a bath Was na't Seneca? North. James, who is the best female poet of the age? Shepherd. Female what 1 Tickler. Poet. Shepherd. Mrs. John Biley. In her Plays on the Passions, she has a' the vigor o' a man, and a' the delicacy o' a woman. And oh, sirs but her lyrics are gems, and she wears them gracefully, like diamond-draps danglin' frae the ears o' Melpomene. The very warst play she ever wrote is better than the best o' ony ither body's that hasna kickt the bucket. North. Yet they won't act, James. Shepherd. They wull ack. Count Bosil '11 ack--and De Montford '11 ack--and Constantine 'II ack--and they'll a' ack. Tickler. Miss Mitford, James 1 Sheplierd. I'm just verra fond o' that lassie--Mitford. She has an ee like a hawk's, that misses naething, however far aff--and yet like a dove's, that sees only what is nearest and dearest, and round about the hame-circle o' its central nest. I'm just excessive fond o' Miss Mitford. Tickler. Fond is not the right word, James. Shepherd. It is the richt word, Timothy--either in the het bath or out o't. I'm fond o' a' gude female writers. They're a' bonnie--and every passage they write carries, as it ought to do, their feminity alaug wi' it. The young gentlemen o' England should be ashamed o' theirsells for letting her name be Mitford. They should marry her...