United States or Argentina ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"To return over the water, who would expect any thing poetical from East Smithfield? Yet there was born the most poetical even of poets, Spenser. Pope was born within the sound of Bowbell, in a street no less anti-poetical than Lombard-street. So was Gray, in Cornhill. So was Milton, in Bread-street, Cheapside.
They sat down with contented hearts to the nice, smoking soup, and after supper walked out among the spreading cabbages. IN those far away times when the world was yet in its baby clothes, and people were not as wise as they are nowadays, there dwelt in the good town of London a poor tailor's apprentice named Bartlemy Bowbell.
It isn't the Gold Stone!" "It's not the Gold Stone!!" gasped Bartlemy. "Why, no, you donkey! there's no such thing!" Bartlemy turned fairly green and yellow with horror and disappointment. "Listen to me, Bartlemy Bowbell," said the goblin; "nobody but a donkey would suppose that a round bit of purple glass " "Of purple glass!" repeated Bartlemy, in a sort of dream.
The moon rose high, and still Bartlemy snored, when, all of a sudden, he was roused by a smart blow on the shoulder from what he could have sworn was a yard stick. "Needles and pins!" cried Bartlemy, sitting up in haste; "what's that?" "Bartlemy Bowbell," croaked a strange voice, "look at me."
So saying, he gave him a good thwack with his yard stick, to make him continue working. All the beatings in the world, however, could not thump out of Bartlemy Bowbell a belief that had got into his head that he should one day become rich and famous, through the agency of a wonderful jewel called the Gold Stone.
Now, this story had come to the ears of Bartlemy Bowbell, and by one of those odd cranks that not overwise people sometimes take in their heads, he was perfectly persuaded that, sooner or later, he was fated to find the miraculous gem. Matters soon rose to such a pitch, as may easily be seen, that his master finally turned him out of doors, saying "that he ate more than he would ever earn."
Word Of The Day