Gaslight and Daylight: With Some London Scenes They Shine UponChapman & Hall, 1859 - 403 pages |
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Gaslight and Daylight, With Some London Scenes They Shine Upon George Augustus Sala No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 61 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 172 - Farewell, great Painter of mankind, Who reached the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart . " If genius fire thee, Reader, stay ; If Nature touch thee, drop a tear ; If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here.
Page 357 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 381 - I have endeavoured to delineate, all offer some repulsive and humiliating traits. In these feeble sketches of some of the sports and pastimes of some of the English people, I have been compelled to bring into my canvas degraded human beings — to delineate base passions and appetites — to become the limner and biographer of scoundrels and dens.
Page 352 - Juggernaut, we should not need to wonder at his votaries wearing absurd dresses and passing their lives in the performance of more absurd ceremonies. We might set down the worship to be a delusion; but we might concede the dresses and the ceremonies to be the offspring of a sincere though mistaken superstition, and to be typical or symbolic of something. But my lady Azalea, the Queen of the world of Fashion, is a member of the Church of England, as by law established, and she would be indignant if...
Page 1 - I imagine they are slightly chagrined ; for excitement, you see, at a fire, is. everything. En revanche there are no less than three families of small children next door, and the crowd are hugely delighted when they are expeditiously brought out in their night-dresses, by the fire-brigade. More excitement ! The house on the other side has caught fire. The mob are in ecstasies, and the pickpockets make a simultaneous onslaught on all the likely pockets near them. I am not pleased, but interested —...
Page 106 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.