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O' course, all this suited Bob Pretty as well as could be, and 'e was that good-tempered 'e'd got a nice word for everybody, and when Bill Chambers told 'im 'e was foolhardy 'e only laughed and said 'e knew wot 'e was about. But the very next night 'e had reason to remember Bill Chambers's words.
At this point I need only record the fact that I became a frequent contributor to Chambers's Journal, writing for it a series of articles, descriptive of the work of the journalist, that were afterwards republished in a volume called "Briefs and Papers." In this little book I collaborated with my old friend and schoolfellow, Mr.
It reminded me of Sir William Chambers's Account of Oriental Gardening , in which we are told all odd, strange, ugly, and even terrible objects, are introduced for the sake of variety; a wild extravagance of taste which is so well ridiculed in the celebrated Epistle to him . The following lines of that poem immediately occurred to me;
'O waly, waly, up yon bank, And waly, waly, doon yon brae. It was printed first in Jamieson's collection 1806; again in Chambers's, p. 150. The 'waly' has been by Cockney critics called Scotch for 'wail ye. The word may come from the same etymological source as 'wail, but it is a Scots adverb, indicative of the intensity of sorrow.
Mrs Murchison kept a discouraging eye upon such purchases; and when her husband brought home Chambers's Dictionary of English Literature, after shortly and definitely repulsing her demand that he should get himself a new winter overcoat, she declared that it was beyond all endurance.
Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated. Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out!
Thus Peregrine Pickle was sent first to Winchester and afterwards abroad 'under the immediate care and inspection of a governor. Peregrine Pickle, ch. xv. He and his wife returned before the end of the War of Independence. On the way back she showed great spirit when their ship was attacked by a French man of war. Chambers's Rebellion in Scotland, ii. 329.
Chambers's medicines, or perhaps to a consciousness that my present attempt is actually, and will be considered by others, more a trial of strength than either of my preceding ones. Thank you for the books, and especially for the editio rarissima, which I should as soon have thought of your trusting to me as of your admitting me to stand with gloves on within a yard of Baxter.
He came straight to Bill Chambers's mug wot 'ad just been filled and emptied it, and then 'e sat down on a seat gasping for breath. "Wots the matter, Henery?" ses Bill, staring at 'im with 'is mouth open. Henery Walker groaned and shook his 'ead. "Didn't you get the hamper?" ses Bill, turning pale. Henery Walker shook his 'ead agin. "Shut up!" he ses, as Bill Chambers started finding fault.
The contributor to Chambers's Journal proceeds: "It was all very amusing to a proud, stiff, reserved Britisher like myself, to see how grey-headed men with stars and ribbons could cry at Jasmin's reading; and how Jasmin, himself a man, could sob and wipe his eyes, and weep so violently, and display such excessive emotion.
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