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But with the exception of a number of Strephons and Chloes, not always ungraceful, in the newer fashion, and a sprinkling of ruder verses in which there is more indecency than immorality, the first two volumes of the Tea-table Miscellany are full of merit, and include many delightful simple lyrics, songs which compare most advantageously with the insipid "words" which at this present advanced age are used as a sort of necessary evil to serve the purpose of the music.
Besides publishing three volumes of miscellany poems, she wrote seventeen plays, and some histories and novels. She translated Fontenelle's History of Oracles, and plurality of worlds, to which last she annexed an Essay on Translation, and translated Prose. The Paraphrase of Oenone's, Epistle to Paris, in the English Translation of Ovid's Epistles is Mrs.
Wrote a little in the morning. Detained in Court till two; then returned home wet enough. Met with Chambers, and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for Constable's Miscellany. It is really a lively work, and must have a good sale. Before dinner enter Cadell, and we anxiously renewed our plan for buying the copyrights on 19th December.
The others were eating houses, stores with small windows filled with a threatening miscellany revolvers, leather slung shots and brass knuckles, besides lumbering boots, gaudy Mackinaw jackets, gleaming knives and ammunition.
So far as our knowledge goes at present, what is popularly known as "energy" or "go" is just as likely to be a certain net preponderance of a varied miscellany of impulsive qualities over a varied miscellany of restraints and inhibitions, as it is to prove a simple indivisible quality transmissible intact.
A selection of scarce pamphlets found in the library was made by Oldys, and printed in 8 volumes, in 1746, under the title of the "Harleian Miscellany." Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote a preface to this work. The best edition of the "Harleian Miscellany" is that of Thomas Park, in 10 volumes, published between 1808-13.
Almost forty years from the first of these dates we find him bewailing in "Terminus" his inherited weakness of organization. And in writing to Carlyle, he says: "You are of the Anakirn and know nothing of the debility and postponement of the blonde constitution." Again, "I am the victim of miscellany miscellany of designs, vast debility and procrastination."
Gloria, glancing over his shoulder after one of their usual late breakfasts, saw him regarding it idly. "Why don't you try it?" she suggested. "Oh it's one of these crazy schemes." "It might not be. At least it'd be experience." At her urging he went at one o'clock to the appointed address, where he found himself one of a dense miscellany of men waiting in front of the door.
Pickwick, who had only heard of such things in shipwrecks or read of them in Constable's Miscellany. 'True, said Jingle, nodding his head. 'Pawnbroker's shop duplicates here small sums mere nothing all rascals. 'Oh, said Mr. Pickwick, much relieved by this explanation; 'I understand you. You have pawned your wardrobe. 'Everything Job's too all shirts gone never mind saves washing.
Hastily diving into his bag the coroner produced a pair of long keen scissors and slit the short, frozen sheepskin coat. In the breast-pocket of the coat underneath, amongst other miscellany two old letters rewarded his search. He glanced at the superscriptions and handed them up to Slavin. "Larry Blake it is," he said. He felt the soggy, pulped head. "Skull's stove right in.
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