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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Is that a dead man under the blue coverlet?" I asked with awe. "I suppose so," said Godfather Gilpin. "But why don't his friends go to the funeral?" I inquired. "He has no friends to follow him," said my godfather. "That is why he is being buried by the Brothers of Pity." I have changed my mind a great many times, since I can remember, about what I will be when I am grown up.
Between three and four o'clock the procession moved, and, at the same time, minute-guns were fired from the schooner anchored in the Potomac. The pall-bearers were Colonels Little, Simms, Payne, Gilpin, Ramsay, and Marsteler. Colonel Blackburn preceded the corpse. Colonel Deneale marched with the military.
Leaving St. Pitt took them along Cheapside, one of the most crowded streets of the city. The amount of traffic is tremendous there, and it is said that sometimes teams are held eight hours in the alleys before they can get out. They noted Bow Church, and the site of John Gilpin's house at the corner of Paternoster Row. "Oh, is that the John Gilpin in Cowper's poem?" cried John, excitedly.
Nearing the End Firing on the Red Cross Perpetuity of War Artistic Hypocrites The Jubilee Year The Conflicts of a Peaceful Reign Major Russell Quick Promotion The Foreign Legion An Aspiring Adventurer Leader's Career A Piratical Proposal The "Ojaladeros" of Biarritz A Friend in Need Buying a Horse Gilpin Outdone "Fred Burnaby."
Bodley, Gilpin, and the rest were in a chronic state of exasperation with the Hollanders, not only because of their perpetual complaints, but because their complaints were perpetually just.
The Pere Gilpin had the kind of science I like in the study of Nature, a little less observation than White of Selborne, but a little more poetry. Just think of applying the Linnaean system to an elm! Who cares how many stamens or pistils that little brown flower, which comes out before the leaf, may have to classify it by?
Cuthbert on Fame. 3. A Descent of the Danes. 4. Death of the Venerable Bede. 5. The Charlton Spur. 6. Bernard Gilpin taking down a challenge glove in Rothbury Church. 7. Grace Darling and her father on the way to the wreck. 8. The Nineteenth Century showing the High Level Bridge, the Quayside, an Armstrong gun, etc., etc.
In our own day, one of the highest authorities as to the graces and powers of our language, the English statesman and scholar, T. B. Macaulay, has pronounced upon that style, which Gilpin by implication so disparaged, the most glowing eulogies. Schools and leisure and wealth are useful, but they are not indispensable either to felicity or to honor.
Famous books in their day were Cruikshank's "John Gilpin" and "Epping Hunt;" for though our artist does not draw horses very scientifically, to use a phrase of the atelier, he FEELS them very keenly; and his queer animals, after one is used to them, answer quite as well as better.
'Don't let us run away as if we were beaten, mamma, said Cynthia. 'Though it may be logic, I, for one, can understand what Mr. Roger Hamley said just now; and I read some of Molly's book; and whether it was deep or not I found it very interesting more so than I should think the "Prisoner of Chillon" now-a-days. I've displaced the Prisoner to make room for Johnnie Gilpin as my favourite poem.
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