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'I dined and lay at Harrison's, where I was received with that old-fashioned breeding which is at once so honourable and so troublesome. Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 144. Mr. Pleydell, in Guy Mannering, ed. 1860, iv. 96, says: 'You'll excuse my old-fashioned importunity. I was born in a time when a Scotchman was thought inhospitable if he left a guest alone a moment, except when he slept.
Misc Somers, she never had no man, an' she talks mos' about the women that has got one. I think Aunt Vesty has got the best man in Prencess Anne. He's the richest. He's the freest. He never courted no other gal. He ain't got no quar old women runnin' of him down caze Misc Somers is dreffle afraid of him!" This last remark seemed apologetic and an afterthought.
v See note LLL, at the end of the volume. v* The trade's increase, in the Harleian Misc. vol. iii. v Remarks on his travels, Harl. Misc. vol. ii. p. 348. v * Naval Tracts, p. 329, 350. v Raleigh's Observations. A catalogue of the manufactures for which the English were then eminent, would appear very contemptible, in comparison of those which flourish among them at present.
And who is Mrs. Somers?" "Misc Somers, she's a ole aunt of Par Hullin. She an' me live together sence par and mar died of the pilmonary. Oh, I have a passel of beaus that takes me over to the Oushin on Sinepuxin beach, outen the way of the skeeters, an' thar we wades and sails, and biles salt and roasts mammynoes. Aunt Vesty, I can cut out most any girl from her beau; but, Lord sakes!
Journal of Heredity, x, 176-181, April, 1919. Illus. Polar Bear Cacti. Journal of Heredity, Washington, D.C., VIII, 113-120, March, 1917. Illus. William H. Dall: Some Landshells Collected by Dr. Hiram Bingham in Peru. Proceedings of U.S. National Museum, XXXVIII, 177-182, 1911. Illus. Reports on Landshells Collected in Peru in 1911 by The Yale Expedition. Smithsonian Misc.
Love came easily on as a topic of talk where Rhoda, with her unconventional preference for that subject, introduced it. "Mr. William" she had got that far towards the inevitable "William" said Rhoda, one evening at Teackle Hall, as they sat in the library, "do preachers love jus' like other folks? Misc Somers say they is drea'fle sly-boots.
'We emerge from the Inane; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane.... But whence? O Heaven, whither? Sense knows not; Faith knows not; only that it is through Mystery to Mystery. 'Characteristics, Misc. Ess., iii. pp. 356-358.
As a matter of fact Mrs. Haywood's most successful and popular writings were produced after the publication of that poem, and that too at a period when Pope's predominance was far higher than it was at the time the satire itself appeared." A. Esdaile, English Tales and Romances, Introduction, xxviii. Philobillon Soc. Misc., IV, 12.
This article, it is proper to observe, was a benefaction to Mr. Gillies, whose pecuniary affairs rendered such assistance very desirable. Scott's generosity in this matter for it was exactly giving a poor brother author £100 at the expense of considerable time and drudgery to himself I think it necessary to mention; the date of the exertion requires it of me." Life, vol. ix. pp. 72-3; see Misc.
Gibbon says of the last five quartos of the six that formed his History: 'My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. Misc. Works, i. 255. In the Memoir of Goldsmith, prefixed to his Misc. Works, i. 113, it is said: 'In whole quires of his Histories, Animated Nature, &c., he had seldom occasion to correct or alter a single word. See ante, i. 203.
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