The Newspapers Of The Week Republish The Following Old Lines
by Sir Walter Scott, from the Album at the Bell Rock Lighthouse- " PHAROS LOQUITUR. Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep ; A ruddy gem of......
The Newspapers Have Always Given An Absurd Importance To The
private and most trivial actions of players. One journal records their movements with the precision of the Court Circular ; others insert their most foolish speeches, as if they......
"a German Paper States That A Dr. Von Mayerly Has
lately invented a pair of boots made of block tin, and surrounded by a hollow body, by means of which he can pass over the most rapid river, lie has lately ex- hibited his......
A Great Deal Has Been Said By Our Contemporaries About
actresses dressing in male attire, and we well remember setting ourselves to the task of disgusting Miss Love with her epiccenities (in the Atlas). We do not think, however,......
A Cock-and-a-bull Story Lately Circulated Among The...
forth how the Duchess of Meiningen saved a dis- tinguished individual's life at the launch of the Royal Adelaide. The Morning Post has contradicted the romance, and explained,......
Topics Of The Day.
IT is an agreeable reflection for the panic-loving inhabitants of Great Britain, that so long as the world rolls round the sun, there is reason for hoping that Providence will......
The Imaginers Of Human Absurdities Have Their Conceits...
rivalled in action, as if practical men were resolved to show that they will not be behind the theorists in absurdity. In the Fa- cetim of Hierocles, a sick man is asked by a......
People Were Perplexed How To Reconcile The Conflicting...
of the accurate Times and Chronicle respecting the late ascent of Mr. Green (on Friday week) ; the latter paper having affirmed that a Mr. Hemming took the place of the promised......
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