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I saw one of the small, square stones in it, bearing the date of 1597, and no doubt there are a thousand older ones. Rouen By Thomas Frognall Dibdin The approach to Rouen is indeed magnificent. I speak of the immediate approach, after you reach the top of a considerable rise, and are stopt by the barriers.
His songs abound with just and noble sentiments, and manly virtues were never more constantly and strikingly enunciated by any author. We dearly love Charles Dibdin for this; and as a writer of popular lyrics, we class him as the very first England has ever produced.
Dibdin, speaking of him at the age of thirty, says he "was tall as a giant and as thin as a shadow; therefore, if he had grace, it could only be of a sort to be envied by a penguin or a spider." To his supreme merit as an artist we have, however, overwhelming testimony.
Dibdin himself was not a sailor, and his knowledge of sea-life, of seamen, and of sea-slang, is generally attributed to the instructions of his brother, the master of a ship. This brother was subsequently lost at sea, and Dibdin is said to have written Poor Tom Bowling as his elegy.
Sailors, Mariners, Bar-keepers, Crimps, Aldermen, Police-officer's, Soldiers, Landsmen generally. Long live the Commodore! :: Admission Free. To conclude with the much-admired song by Dibdin, altered to suit all American Tars, entitled Performance to commence with "Hail Columbia," by the Brass Band. Ensign rises at three bells, P.M. No sailor permitted to enter in his shirt-sleeves.
Anthony Humm now moved that the assembly do regale itself with a song. He might take that opportunity of expressing his firm persuasion that the late Mr. Dibdin, seeing the errors of his former life, had written that song to show the advantages of abstinence.
It may be cited as a signal instance of the freaks of book-collecting, that of all men in the world Junot, the hard-fighting soldier, had a vellum library but so it was. It was sold in London for about £1400. "The crown octavos," says Dibdin, "especially of ancient classics, and a few favourite English authors, brought from four to six guineas.
Dibdin has given an animated description of Coleridge's lecturing and conversation, which concurs with the universal opinion. "I once came from Kensington in a snow-storm to hear Mr. Coleridge lecture on Shakspeare, I might have sat as wisely, and more comfortably by my own fire-side for no Coleridge appeared.
Character of Coleridge, by Professor Wilson, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Dr. Dibdin, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Rev. Archdeacon Hare, Quarterly Review, Rev. C. V. Le Grice Mr. Coleridge's letter to Mr. Cottle on his return from Malta, 1807 Rev. J. Foster's letter concerning Coleridge Mr. Coleridge's singular escape from Italy letter on the Trinity views of Unitarianism character of Sir H. Davy
'Let the land-lubbers sing it! thinks he; 'I'll none on't! Dibdin takes the first sip of his Flowing Can with the ominous line 'A sailor's life's a life of wo! But what follows? 'Why, then, he takes it cheerily! A pleasant philosophy this; but we happen to know that sailors do not take cheerily to 'a life of wo' they would be more than men if they did.
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