Household Words Volume 11 (Feb. -July 1855); a Weekly Journal
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...To some bye place I therefore creep. And sit mo down, and feign to sleep; And could I with old Morpheus bargain 'Twould save my ears much noise and jargon. But down my lady comes ajjnin. And I'm released from my pain. To some new place our steps we bond. The tedious evening out to spend; Somotimes, perhaps, to see the play, Assembly, or the opera; Then homo and sup, and thus we end the day There are many versifiers considered as poets by the charity of criticism, whose rhymes have found a place in the great body of English poetry, whose unlivcried muses have written infinitely worse than Lady Lowtber's footman. No one has told us when and how the Muse in Livery became acquainted with the Muse at Twickenham. "All fly to Twickenham" is Pope's own bill of complaint against the fraternity of scribblers who moJested him on Sunday; and it is probable that Dodslcy introduced himself to the poet by a copy of complimentary verses, for the little nightingale was not averse to flattery. But an easier mode of introduction may reasonably be inferred. The Muse in Livery left the service of Lady Lowther, and entered that of Charles Dartiqueneuve, Esq., a great epicure, whose ham pie is made immortal by Pope. Darty--for so he was called by his acquaintances as well as by the poet--is described by Swift in his Journal to Stella thus briefly: "Do you not know Dartiqueneuve? That is the man that knows everything and that everybody knows--the greatest punucr of the town next myself." Here he easily attained that relish for good bits and good sups which he continued to like, though never to any excess of indulgence. Darty was, it is said, the natural son of Charles the Second by a foreign lady, and his portrait in the Kit-Kat scries seems to support a belief... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-05-15, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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