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Updated: May 3, 2025
There seems to be hardly a mirthful corner of English life that Leech has not seen and loved and painted in this singularly genial and optimistic manner. His loves are many and his hates are few but he is a good hater all the same. He hates Mawworm and Stiggins, and so do we.
For thus feeling and thus speaking this writer has the charitableness and the decency to call me "Mawworm." Hot-headed young men! why, man, you are writing a romance. You think the scene is Alexandria or the Spanish main, where you may let your imagination play revel to the extent of inveracity. It is good luck for me that the scene of my labours was not at Moscow or Damascus.
He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it. "Say, goddess, what ensued, when Raphael, The affable archangel . . . Eve The story heard attentive, and was filled With admiration, and deep muse, to hear Of things so high and strange." Paradise Lost, B. vii. If it had really occurred to Mr.
Amongst other exploits, we broke into a proscribed conventicle of drunken negroes but I am rather ashamed of this part of the transaction, and intended to have held my tongue, had Aaron managed his, although it was notorious as the haunt of all the thieves and slight ladies of the place; here we found parson Charley, a celebrated black preacher, three parts drunk, extorting, as Mawworm says, a number of devotees, male and female, all very tipsy, in a most blasphemous fashion, the table being covered with rummers of punch, and fragments of pies and cold meat; but this did not render our conduct more excusable, I will acknowledge.
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