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It was not so with Chaucer, whom I loved from the first word of his which I found quoted in those lectures, and in Chambers's 'Encyclopaedia of English Literature, which I had borrowed of my friend the organ-builder.
Another member read to the club an account of his journey to Lochnagar, which was afterwards published in Chambers's Journal. He was celebrated for his descriptions of scenery, and was not the only member of the club whose essays got into print. More memorable perhaps was an itinerant match-seller known to Thrums and the surrounding towns as the literary spunk-seller.
"He rumpled Bill Chambers's 'air for 'im as he passed a thing Bill never can a-bear and gave Henery Walker, wot was drinking beer, a smack on the back wot nearly ruined 'im for life. "Some of 'em went and told Mr. Bunnett some more things about Bob next day, but they might as well ha' saved their breath.
Though the Life of Young is by Croft, yet the critical remarks are by Johnson. Ib. p.460. Johnson refers to Chambers's Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, which was ridiculed in the Heroic Epistle. See post, under May 8, 1781, and Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 13. Boswell refers to the death of Narcissa in the third of the Night Thoughts. While he was writing the Life of Johnson Mrs.
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.
In her old age, 'such is said to have been the virulence of the Jacobite spirit in her composition, that she would have struck any one with her fist who presumed, in her hearing, to call Charles the Pretender. Chambers's Rebellion in Scotland, ii. 330. See ante, iv. 60, 187. See ante, iv. 113 and 315. 'This was written while Mr. By 'here' the poet means at Tyburn.
It will not be necessary to quote again the admission of the Reverend S. Baring-Gould, M.A., to the effect that the so-called Cross of Constantine or monogram of Christ was but the symbol of the Sun-God of the Gauls with a loop added by their crafty leader to please the Christians, but it may be pointed out that this fact is also admitted in Chambers's Encyclopaedia; where we read that
Metcalfe; rather rough in his dress; wrote a funny book about Iceland; told some hard things on the priests; they didn't like it at all; didn't know what to make of Mr. Metcalfe, etc. Here was Mr. Chambers's camp a Scotch gentleman; very nice man, plain and sensible; wrote a pamphlet, etc.
He sowed my field with one hand, and as liberally scattered the tares with the other." Mr. Skene's Reminiscences. These two gentlemen were at this time Directors of the Bank of Scotland. Sir W. Forbes and Co.'s Banking House. An extract from what is probably the letter to Laidlaw written on this day was printed in Chambers's Journal for July 1845. The italics are the editor's:
Abraham Rees, of editor and general super-intendent of the new issue of Chambers's Cyclopaedia, undertaken by the booksellers in 1776, and he supplied to it some new articles. The Duke of Northumberland warmly patronized Dr. Calder, and made him his companion in London and at Alnwick Castle as Private Literary Secretary. Dr.
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