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Just as these magistrates begin to learn their trade, like chimney-sweepers, they are disqualified for exercising it. Superficial, new, petulant acquisition, and interrupted, dronish, broken, ill recollection, is to be the destined character of all your future governors. Your Constitution has too much of jealousy to have much of sense in it.
My pleasant friend JEM WHITE was so impressed with a belief of metamorphoses like this frequently taking place, that in some sort to reverse the wrongs of fortune in these poor changelings, he instituted an annual feast of chimney-sweepers, at which it was his pleasure to officiate as host and waiter. It was a solemn supper held in Smithfield, upon the yearly return of the fair of St. Bartholomew.
There are no end of ditches, streams, and brooks with muddy banks, into which half the fellows who run manage to tumble, and to come out very like drowned chimney-sweepers. Those are all good amusements for cold weather. From Easter to the end of July is our great time for games. Of course, cricket and boating are the chief.
When Scott takes us into Luckie Mucklebackit’s cottage, or tells the story of “The Two Drovers;” when Wordsworth sings to us the reverie of “Poor Susan;” when Kingsley shows us Alton Locke gazing yearningly over the gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw; when Hornung paints a group of chimney-sweepers—more is done toward linking the higher classes with the lower, toward obliterating the vulgarity of exclusiveness, than by hundreds of sermons and philosophical dissertations.
"Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust." At times in my five months at the front I have been puzzled by the sacrifice of so much young life; and most I have wondered about the Belgians. I had seen their first army wiped out; there came a time when I no longer met the faces I had learned to know at Termonde and Antwerp and Alost.
Yes, and 'youth's a stuff will not endure, and 'golden lads and girls all must like chimney-sweepers come to dust. The poets aren't at all helpful, for youth poor brave youth won't listen to their warnings, and they seem to have no consolation to offer to middle age. "The odd thing is that up to a week or two ago I greatly liked the life I led. You said it would kill you in a month.
It was so dark, that their forms could scarcely be discerned. "In the name of heaven, who and what may you be? Speak, I conjure you! what are ye?" "The chimney-sweepers, ma'am, an' please your ladyship." "Chimney-sweepers!" repeated Frederick and Marianne, bursting out a- laughing. "Chimney-sweepers!" repeated Mrs. Theresa, provoked at the recollection of her late solemn address to them.
Bartholomew's day, to the little chimney-sweepers of London; waiting on them, and cheering them up with his jokes and lively talk; creating at least one happy day annually in each of their poor lives. In Lamb's words, "James White is extinct; and with him the suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died of my world, at least.
This is the reception given by the President to any one whom the Convention wish particularly to distinguish. On an occasion of the sort, the fraternal embrace was given to an old Negress. The honours of the fitting are also daily accorded to deputations of fish-women, chimney-sweepers, children, and all whose missions are flattering.
Again, in 1824, James Montgomery, the poet, edited a book The Chimney-Sweepers' Friend and Climbing Boys' Album with the benevolent purpose of interesting people in the hardships of the climbing boys' life and producing legislation to alleviate it.
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