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Philip McBride, son of old Matthew, quite a substantial man, I am really concerned, Philip, to see you, whom I looked upon as a sort of, I had almost said, gentleman Catty. Gentleman! what sort? Is it because of the new topped boots, or by virtue of the silver-topped whip, and the bit of a red rag tied about the throat? Then a gentleman's asy made, now-a-days.
Away on the left, a gaunt tower stood in the middle of the street. What it had been in past ages, I know not: probably a hold in time of war; but now-a-days it bore an illegible dial-plate in its upper parts, and near the bottom an iron letter-box. The inn to which we had been recommended at Quartes was full, or else the landlady did not like our looks.
When the iron horse was first made, men were naturally in haste to ascertain his power and paces. He was trotted out, so to speak, in his skeleton, with his heart and lungs and muscles exposed to view in complex hideosity! Now-a-days he never appears without his skin well-groomed and made gay with paint and polished brass and steel.
'It is beautiful calico, to be sure, said Susan's mother; 'but such fine stuff as that will want very neat work. I am afraid you will hardly be able to make them yourself. 'Why, no, answered Sarah, smiling and shaking her head. 'I am sorry to say, there comes in my old trouble, not having learned to work neatly when I was young. Take warning by me, Susan, and mind your needlework now-a-days.
Pitt, of a fresh color and a down look, and not very conversible." So Pope described him to Spence. He still reigns in literary tradition, as when at Will's his elbow-chair had the best place by the fire in winter, or on the balcony in summer, and when a pinch from his snuff-box made a young author blush with pleasure as would now-a-days a favorable notice in the "Saturday Review."
Just such a man as Hugh Peters; saying that it had been better for the poor Cavalier never to have come with the King into England again; for he that hath the impudence to deny obedience to the lawful magistrate, and to swear to the oath of allegiance, &c., was better treated now-a-days in Newgate, than a poor Royalist, that hath suffered all his life for the King, is at White Hall among his friends.
I mention the Latin name because I have known persons sometimes, misled by the similarity of sound, fancy that it had some connection with scrofula. It is met with less commonly now than formerly, when people were accustomed to keep infants unduly wrapped up, and to be less careful than most are now-a-days about washing and bathing.
Then he took a book with pictures in it down from the shelf; there were whole long processions and pageants, with the strangest characters, which one never sees now-a-days; soldiers like the knave of clubs, and citizens with waving flags: the tailors had theirs, with a pair of shears held by two lions and the shoemakers theirs, without boots, but with an eagle that had two heads, for the shoemakers must have everything so that they can say, it is a pair!
The emperor was anxious to see that famous temple of the Rotunda, called in ancient times the temple 'of all the gods, but now-a-days, by a better nomenclature, 'of all the saints, which is the best preserved building of all those of pagan construction in Rome, and the one which best sustains the reputation of mighty works and magnificence of its founders.
You dare to tell me that these Bloxam people have the audacity to come poaching on our Suffolk preserves?" "Oh, I don't say that; still, people are so unscrupulous now-a-days. But I want your help in another little bit of mischief." "What is it?" rejoined the young lady, with an animation which promised ready assent. "Do you know Beauchamp well enough to ask him to dance?"
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