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Such was the book from whose pages she sang the old Puritan anthem." One of these "well-worn psalm-books of Ainsworth" lies now before me, perhaps the very one from which the lonely Priscilla sang as she sat a-spinning. There is something especially dear to the lover and dreamer of the olden time, to the book-lover and antiquary as well, in an old, worn psalm or hymn book.
Birkett no more killed Ainsworth than you did; but he had killed two or three others, and so the confession didn't do him very much harm. "No; Ainsworth met his death in quite another way.
Harrison Ainsworth, on the other hand, had a real knack of arresting and keeping the interest of those readers who read for mere excitement: he was decidedly skilful at gleaning from memoirs and other documents scraps of decoration suitable for his purpose, he could in his better days string incidents together with a very decided knack, and, till latterly, his books rarely languished.
The clerks and shopmen seemed as much "au fait" as their employers, and many is the conversation I heard about the merits of this writer or that Dickens, Ainsworth, Lover, Lever. I think, in walking the streets, and looking at the ragged urchins crowding there, every Englishman must remark that the superiority of intelligence is here, and not with us.
Monck Mason and Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, to whose politeness our agent is also indebted for much verbal information respecting the balloon itself, its construction, and other matters of interest. The only alteration in the MS. received, has been made for the purpose of throwing the hurried account of our agent, Mr. Forsyth, into a connected and intelligible form.
The fields are also very particularly described, and in some instances the exact measurement given; it gives such an appearance of reality, as may be seen in Ainsworth and others; and the second chapter is devoted, or meant to be devoted, to the living interests of the story the dramatis personæ, as it were with hopes, fears, griefs, and the other passions alluded to in Collins's ode.
Mason. It is no new thing for those who are in public places, to seek themselves more than the public welfare; nay, and to serve themselves by the public loss. Henry. How does this remind us of the character of By-ends in the "Pilgrim's Progress" ! Ed. So Ainsworth understands, p. 134, vol. 10. He renders it, "lurking lions, which are lusty, strong-toothed, fierce, roaring, and ravenous.
Many words yet stand supported only by the name of Bailey, Ainsworth, Philips, or the contracted Dict. for Dictionaries, subjoined; of these I am not always certain that they are read in any book but the works of lexicographers.
"The Atlantic crossed in Three Days." Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machines!!! "Arrival at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, S.C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, and four others, in the Steering Balloon, 'Victoria, after a passage of seventy-five hours from Land to Land! Full Particulars of the Voyage!"
He said that Dusenbery and Chet Ainsworth were partners in the business of timber-stealing, and that the dynamiting was Ainsworth's scheme. "Why did they wish to be rid of us?" asked Miss Briggs. "They reckoned they'd spoil yer game. T'other reason was that they wanted this 'ere section fer themselves." "Good! We will send both to jail," promised Elfreda.
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