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diff --git a/42060-h/42060-h.htm b/42060-h/42060-h.htm index 2798d9a..e83f5ad 100644 --- a/42060-h/42060-h.htm +++ b/42060-h/42060-h.htm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Town, by Leigh Hunt. @@ -239,46 +239,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Town, by Leigh Hunt - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Town - Its Memorable Characters and Events - -Author: Leigh Hunt - -Release Date: February 10, 2013 [EBook #42060] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TOWN *** - - - - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42060 ***</div> <div class="tnbox"> <p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> @@ -1008,7 +969,7 @@ some remote ancestor of a fishmonger in the valley of Dowgate.</p> <p>By the fabulous writers, London was called Troynovant or New Troy, and was said to have been founded by Brutus, -great-grandson of Æneas, from whom the country was called +great-grandson of Æneas, from whom the country was called Brutain, or Britain.</p> <div class="poetry-container"> @@ -1076,14 +1037,14 @@ of those personages when we come before their illustrious representatives in Guildhall.</p> <p>This fiction of Troynovant, or new Troy, appears to have -arisen from the word Trinobantes in Cæsar, a name given by +arisen from the word Trinobantes in Cæsar, a name given by the historian to the inhabitants of a district which included the London banks of the Thames. The oldest mention of the metropolis is supposed to be found in that writer, under the appellation of <i>Civitas Trinobantum</i>, the city of the Trinobantes; though some are of opinion that by <i>civitas</i> he only meant their government or community. Be this as it may, a city of the -Britons, in Cæsar's time, was nothing either for truth or +Britons, in Cæsar's time, was nothing either for truth or fiction to boast of, having been, as he describes it, a mere spot hollowed out of the woods, and defended by a ditch and a rampart.</p> @@ -1096,7 +1057,7 @@ of London, though rejected by himself, was not only firmly believed by people in general as late as the reign of Henry the Sixth (to whom it was quoted in a public document), but was maintained by professed antiquaries,—Leland among -them.<a name="FNanchor_3" id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> It is probable enough that, before Cæsar's time, the +them.<a name="FNanchor_3" id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> It is probable enough that, before Cæsar's time, the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span> affairs of the country may have been in a better situation than he found them; and it is possible that something may @@ -1193,7 +1154,7 @@ presently. Pennant thinks that London might have been called Lake-City first, and Ship-City afterwards. The opinion of the editor of the <i>Picture of London</i> seems most plausible—that Lun-Den, or Grove-City was the name, because it is -compounded of Belgic British, which, according to Cæsar, +compounded of Belgic British, which, according to Cæsar, must have been the language of the district; and he adds, that the name is still common in Scandinavia.<a name="FNanchor_7" id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> It may be argued, that London might have existed as a fortress on a lake @@ -1215,10 +1176,10 @@ by the despairing organs of a foreigner, into <i>Inhimthorp</i>?<a name="FNancho <p>Whether London commenced with a spot cleared out in the woods by settlers from Holland, (Gallic Belgium,) as conjecture -might imply from Cæsar, or whether the germ of it arose +might imply from Cæsar, or whether the germ of it arose with the aboriginal inhabitants, we may conclude safely enough with Pennant, that it existed in some shape or other -in Cæsar's time.</p> +in Cæsar's time.</p> <div class="blockquot"> <p> @@ -1246,7 +1207,7 @@ esteem—in short, like other semi-barbarians, exhibiting energies which they did not yet know how turn to account, but possessing, like all human beings, the germs of the noblest <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span> -capabilities. The accounts given of them by Cæsar and other +capabilities. The accounts given of them by Cæsar and other ancient writers appear to be inconsistent, perhaps because we do not enough consider the inconsistencies of our own manners. According to their statements, the Britons had found @@ -1278,9 +1239,9 @@ one respect, an ancient City-Briton differed <i>toto cœlo</i> with a modern. He would not eat goose! He had a superstition against it.</p> -<p>London, in Cæsar's time, was most probably a City of +<p>London, in Cæsar's time, was most probably a City of Ships; that is to say it traded with Gaul, and had a number -of boats on its marshy river. Cæsar's pretence for invading +of boats on its marshy river. Cæsar's pretence for invading England, was, that it was too good a provider for Gaul, and rendered his conquest of that country difficult. But it is doubtful whether he ever beheld or even alludes to the infant @@ -1326,7 +1287,7 @@ and an iron name. That is all that we know of them, and we care accordingly. Perhaps the Saxons, after having destroyed the Roman architecture as much as possible, and repented of it, took their own from what had survived. The -greatest relic of Cæsar's countrymen in the metropolis was +greatest relic of Cæsar's countrymen in the metropolis was the piece of wall which ran lately south of Moorfields, in a street still designated as London Wall. The Romans had a vast material genius, not so intellectual as that of the Greeks, @@ -2473,7 +2434,7 @@ actors:</p> <div class="stanza"> <p>And did act (what now we moan)</p> <p class="i1">Old men so duly,</p> -<p>As, sooth, the Parcæ thought him one,</p> +<p>As, sooth, the Parcæ thought him one,</p> <p class="i1">He played so truly.</p> </div> <div class="stanza"> @@ -3168,7 +3129,7 @@ family perhaps had learnt to admire.</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i5">Subtus <i>conditur</i></p> -<p class="i1">Hujus ecclesiæ et urbis <i>conditor</i></p> +<p class="i1">Hujus ecclesiæ et urbis <i>conditor</i></p> <p class="i6">Ch. Wren,</p> <p class="i1">Qui vixit annos ultra nonaginta,</p> <p class="i2">Non sibi sed bono publico.</p> @@ -3253,7 +3214,7 @@ so good-natured a man.</p> <p>For thee, for thee alone, what could she more?</p> <p>She lost the honour she had gain'd before;</p> <p>Lost all the trophies which her arms had won,</p> -<p>(Such Cæsar never knew, nor Philip's son;)</p> +<p>(Such Cæsar never knew, nor Philip's son;)</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">51</a></span></p> <p>Resign'd the glories of a ten years' reign,</p> <p>And such as none but Marlborough's arm could gain:</p> @@ -3322,7 +3283,7 @@ the old cathedral was enlarged, between the years 1256 and 1312, it was taken down, and an extensive part of the vaults was appropriated to the use of the parishioners of St. Faith's, in lieu of the demolished fabric. This was afterwards called the church of St. Faith in the -Crypts (<i>Ecclesia Sanctæ Fidei in Cryptis</i>) and, according to a representation +Crypts (<i>Ecclesia Sanctæ Fidei in Cryptis</i>) and, according to a representation made to the Dean and Chapter, in the year 1735, it measured 180 feet in length, and 80 in breadth. After the fire of London, the parish of St. Faith was joined to that of St. Augustine; and on the @@ -3773,7 +3734,7 @@ best bed;"—a question most unexpectedly as well as happily cleared up by Mr. Charles Knight, who shows that the bequest was to the lady's honour. Of the practisers in the civil courts, we can call to mind nothing more worthy of recollection than -the strange name of one of them, "Sir Julius Cæsar," and +the strange name of one of them, "Sir Julius Cæsar," and the ruinous volatility of poor Dr. King, the Tory wit, who is conjectured to have been the only civilian that ever went to reside in Ireland, "after having experienced the emoluments @@ -3989,7 +3950,7 @@ genius, or present us with some pleasing device. Such is the spear of Shakspeare, whose ancestors are thought to have <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">67</a></span> won it in Bosworth field;<a name="FNanchor_62" id="FNanchor_62" href="#Footnote_62" class="fnanchor">[62]</a> the spread eagle of Milton—a -proper epic device; the flower given to Linnæus for a device +proper epic device; the flower given to Linnæus for a device when he was ennobled; the philosophical motto of the great Bacon, <i>Mediocria firma</i> (Mediocre things firm—the Golden Mean); the modest, yet self-respecting one, first used, we @@ -4500,7 +4461,7 @@ of the Ward of Baynard's Castle.</p> <p>Upon Paul's Wharf Hill, to the north-east of Baynard's Castle, were a number of houses within a great gate, which are said by Maitland to have been designated, in the leases -granted by the dean and chapter, as the <i>Camera Dianæ</i>, or +granted by the dean and chapter, as the <i>Camera Dianæ</i>, or Diana's Chamber, and to have been so denominated from a spacious building in the form of a labyrinth, constructed here by Henry II. for the concealment of the fair Rosamond @@ -4510,7 +4471,7 @@ assures us that "for a long time there remained some evident testifications of tedious turnings and windings, as also of a passage under ground from his house to Castle Baynard; which was no doubt the King's way from thence to the -<i>Camera Dianæ</i>,"<a name="FNanchor_72" id="FNanchor_72" href="#Footnote_72" class="fnanchor">[72]</a> or the chamber of his "brightest Diana." +<i>Camera Dianæ</i>,"<a name="FNanchor_72" id="FNanchor_72" href="#Footnote_72" class="fnanchor">[72]</a> or the chamber of his "brightest Diana." What the testifications may in question really have amounted to, we cannot pretend to say; but Diana, not being a family name, as in the case of another royal favourite, Diana of Poitiers, @@ -5332,7 +5293,7 @@ bosom friend and contemporary of my mother; and was so much considered as <i>enfant de famille</i> in Mr. Richardson's house, that her portrait is introduced into a family piece.</p> -<p>"He had many <i>protégees</i>;—a Miss Rosine, from Portugal, was +<p>"He had many <i>protégees</i>;—a Miss Rosine, from Portugal, was consigned to his care; but of her, being then at school, I never saw much. Most of the ladies that resided much at his house acquired a certain degree of fastidiousness and delicate refinement, which, @@ -5404,7 +5365,7 @@ Street, is of an infamy of such long standing, that it is said to have begun its evil courses long before the privilege of sanctuary existed, and to have maintained them up to the present moment. The Carmelites complained of it, and the neighbours -complain still. In the Dramatis Personæ to Shadwell's +complain still. In the Dramatis Personæ to Shadwell's play called the <i>Squire of Alsatia</i>, we have a set of characters so described as to bring us, one would think, sufficiently acquainted with the leading gentry of the neighbourhood; @@ -5656,12 +5617,12 @@ even themselves:</p> <div class="stanza"> <p class="o1">"A gentle manciple was there of a temple,</p> <p>Of which achatours (purchasers) mighten take ensample,</p> -<p>For to ben wise in buying of vitáille.</p> +<p>For to ben wise in buying of vitáille.</p> <p>For whether that be paid, or took by taille,</p> <p>Algate he waited so in his achate,</p> <p>That he was ay before in good estate;</p> <p>Now is not that of God a full fair grace,</p> -<p>That such a lewèd (ignorant) mannès wit shall pass</p> +<p>That such a lewèd (ignorant) mannès wit shall pass</p> <p>The wisdom of a heap of learned men?"<a name="FNanchor_88" id="FNanchor_88" href="#Footnote_88" class="fnanchor">[88]</a></p> </div> </div> @@ -5729,7 +5690,7 @@ which no men are more in the way of acquiring afterwards. Blackstone need not have written his farewell to the Muses. If he had been destined to be a poet, he could not have taken his leave; and, as an accomplished lawyer, he was always -within the pale of the <i>literæ humaniores</i>. The greatest practical +within the pale of the <i>literæ humaniores</i>. The greatest practical lawyers, such as Coke and Plowden, may not have been the most literary, but those who have understood the law in the greatest and best spirit have; and the former, @@ -5829,7 +5790,7 @@ hope that he should soon be in lodgings better furnished, "Johnson," says Boswell, "at the same time checked him, and paid him a handsome compliment, implying that a man of talent should be above attention to such distinctions. 'Nay, -sir, never mind that: <i>Nil te quæsiveris extra</i>.'<a name="FNanchor_94" id="FNanchor_94" href="#Footnote_94" class="fnanchor">[94]</a> (It is only +sir, never mind that: <i>Nil te quæsiveris extra</i>.'<a name="FNanchor_94" id="FNanchor_94" href="#Footnote_94" class="fnanchor">[94]</a> (It is only yourself that need be looked for). He died in Brick Court. It is said that when he was on his deathbed, the landing-place was filled with inquirers, not of the most mentionable @@ -6429,7 +6390,7 @@ of public-houses in which travellers are entertained, formerly signified a great house, mansion, or family palace. So Lincoln's Inn, the mansion of the Earls of Lincoln; Gray's Inn, of the Lords Gray, &c. The French still use the word -<i>hôtel</i> in the same sense. Inn once made as splendid a figure +<i>hôtel</i> in the same sense. Inn once made as splendid a figure in our poetry, as the palaces of Milton:</p> <div class="poetry-container"> @@ -6923,7 +6884,7 @@ the doctor would give him a knock. "It was a delightful day," says the biographer; "as we walked to St. Clement's Church, I again remarked that Fleet Street was the most cheerful scene in the world; 'Fleet Street,' said I, 'is in my -mind more delightful than Tempè.' <i>Johnson.</i>—'Ay, sir, but +mind more delightful than Tempè.' <i>Johnson.</i>—'Ay, sir, but let it be compared with Mull.'"<a name="FNanchor_126" id="FNanchor_126" href="#Footnote_126" class="fnanchor">[126]</a></p> <p>The progress of knowledge, even since Johnson's time, has @@ -7256,14 +7217,14 @@ accompanied by so much excellence. Affectation it was not; for nobody despised pretension of any kind more than he did. Johnson was a sort of born bishop in his way, with high judgments and cathedral notions lording it in his mind; and -<i>ex cathedrâ</i> he accordingly spoke.</p> +<i>ex cathedrâ</i> he accordingly spoke.</p> <p>In Butcher Row, one day, Johnson met, in advanced life, a fellow-collegian, of the name of Edwards, whom he had not seen since they were at the university. Edwards annoyed him by talking of their age. "Don't let us discourage one another," said Johnson. It was this Edwards, a dull but good -man, who made that <i>naïve</i> remark, which was pronounced by +man, who made that <i>naïve</i> remark, which was pronounced by Burke and others to be an excellent trait of character:—"You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson," said he: "I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness @@ -8143,7 +8104,7 @@ he had many years back bequeathed by will the sum of one thousand pounds; but recollecting that this event might take place (which it afterwards did) when such a legacy could be of no service to him, he, with that judicious liberality for which he was always distinguished, -gave it to him in advance, '<i>ut pignus amicitæ</i>:' it was accepted as +gave it to him in advance, '<i>ut pignus amicitæ</i>:' it was accepted as such by Mr. Burke, accompanied with a letter, which none but a man feeling the grandeur and purity of friendship like him could dictate."<a name="FNanchor_148" id="FNanchor_148" href="#Footnote_148" class="fnanchor">[148]</a> @@ -8609,7 +8570,7 @@ should have had a wider base; but the structure was already begun, and there was no changing the plan of it. It might be still argued, that the steeple should not have been made so high: but then, what was to be done with the stones? This, -in the mouth of parish virtù, was a triumphant reply. After +in the mouth of parish virtù, was a triumphant reply. After all, however, the artist need not have spoilt his church with ornament. He said, that being situated in a very public place, "the parishioners" spared no cost to beautify it; but to beautify @@ -9267,7 +9228,7 @@ them:—</p> of substance in his trade, to be enabled to set up the enormous May-pole which we see in the picture. But this did not prevent the daughter from growing up vulgar and foul-mouthed, -and a very different person from the <i>Belles Ferronières</i> +and a very different person from the <i>Belles Ferronières</i> of old.</p> <p>The Savoy, on the one side, with its Gothic gate and flint @@ -9356,7 +9317,7 @@ of term, either for a large house or street. Perhaps in both <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">178</a></span> cases it ought to imply something of the look of a palace, or at least an openness of aspect analogous to that of a <i>square</i>—square -in England, corresponding with <i>place</i>, <i>piazza</i>, and <i>plaça</i> +in England, corresponding with <i>place</i>, <i>piazza</i>, and <i>plaça</i> on the Continent. The Piazza in Covent Garden, properly means the place itself, and not the portico.</p> @@ -9929,8 +9890,8 @@ Robert Ker Porter (Seringapatam, Acre, &c.) A species of entertainment then took place in it, which has justly been called "useful and liberal," presenting, on a regular stage, pictures or scenes of famous places, while a person read -accounts of them from a desk. We remember the Ægyptiana, -or description of Ægypt, and, if we mistake not, an attempt, +accounts of them from a desk. We remember the Ægyptiana, +or description of Ægypt, and, if we mistake not, an attempt, not quite so well founded, to illustrate the scenes of Milton's Allegro and Penseroso. Neither of the attempts met with success; but the former, perhaps, might be tried again with @@ -11961,8 +11922,8 @@ far this vanity would carry him; and after considering a picture which he had just finished, for a good while very attentively, I said to him in French (for he had been talking for some time before in that language), 'On lit dans les Ecritures Saintes, que le bon Dieu faisoit -l'homme après son image: mais, je crois, que s'il voudroit faire un -autre à présent, qu'il le feroit après l'image que voilà.' Sir Godfrey +l'homme après son image: mais, je crois, que s'il voudroit faire un +autre à présent, qu'il le feroit après l'image que voilà .' Sir Godfrey turned round, and said very gravely, 'Vous avez raison, Monsieur Pope; par Dieu, je le crois aussi.'" </p> @@ -12071,8 +12032,8 @@ of the work he wrote on this subject, he says:—</p> <div class="blockquot"> <p> -"My book 'De Veritate prout distinguitur à Revelatione verisimili, -possibili, et à falso,' having been begun by me in England, and formed +"My book 'De Veritate prout distinguitur à Revelatione verisimili, +possibili, et à falso,' having been begun by me in England, and formed there in all its principal parts, was about this time finished; all the spare hours which I could get from my visits and negotiations being employed to perfect this work; which was no sooner done, but that @@ -12844,7 +12805,7 @@ since; nor received anything like the modern salaries. His death is said to have been hastened by tampering with the gout, in order to perform on his benefit night. His person was rather manly than graceful. He was a good-natured -man; and, like Molière, would perform when he was ill, +man; and, like Molière, would perform when he was ill, rather than hinder the profits of his brother actors.<a name="FNanchor_238" id="FNanchor_238" href="#Footnote_238" class="fnanchor">[238]</a> At Caen Wood, Hampstead, the seat of Lord Mansfield, there is a portrait of him by Pope, who was an amateur in painting. @@ -13682,7 +13643,7 @@ sympathy of souls; and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion. But if the unbelieving will not allow the believing reader of this story a liberty to believe that it may be true, then I wish him to consider, that many wise men have believed that the ghost -of Julius Cæsar did appear to Brutus, and that both St. Austin, and +of Julius Cæsar did appear to Brutus, and that both St. Austin, and Monica his mother, had visions in order to his conversion. And though these, and many others—too many to name—have but the authority of human story, yet the <i>incredible</i> reader may find in the @@ -13748,7 +13709,7 @@ commencing adjuration:—</p> <p>Thy (else almighty) beauty cannot move</p> <p>Rage from the seas, nor thy love teach them love,</p> <p>Nor tame wild Boreas' harshness: thou hast read</p> -<p>How roughly he in pieces shiverèd</p> +<p>How roughly he in pieces shiverèd</p> <p>Fair Orithea, whom he swore he loved.</p> <p>Fall ill or good, 'tis madness to have proved</p> <p>Dangers unurged: feed on this flattery,</p> @@ -13851,7 +13812,7 @@ beautifully said by Drayton, that</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="o1">"Even in the aged'st face, where beauty once did dwell,</p> -<p>And nature, in the least, but seemèd to excel,</p> +<p>And nature, in the least, but seemèd to excel,</p> <p>Time cannot make such waste, but something will appear</p> <p>To show some little tract of delicacy there."</p> </div> @@ -14111,7 +14072,7 @@ as Lady Betty Modish; to revive the electrical shock of Garrick's leap upon it, as the lively Lothario;—in short, to be his grandfather and great-grandfather before him, and make one of the successive generations of play-goers, now in -his peruke <i>à la Charles II.</i>, and now in his Ramillie wig, or +his peruke <i>à la Charles II.</i>, and now in his Ramillie wig, or the bobs of Hogarth. Did we introduce him to all this ourselves, we should speak with less confidence; but we have a succession of play-goers for his acquaintance, who shall @@ -14139,7 +14100,7 @@ not, indeed, retained everything, but we have almost.</p> <p>We now, therefore, pass Drury House, proceed up the lane by my Lord Craven's garden, and turn into Russell Street amongst a throng of cavaliers in flowing locks, and ladies -with curls <i>à la Valliere</i>. Some of them are in masks, but +with curls <i>à la Valliere</i>. Some of them are in masks, but others have not put theirs on. We shall see them masquing as the house grows full. It is early in the afternoon. There press a crowd of gallants, who have already got enough wine. @@ -14461,7 +14422,7 @@ infinitely displeased with her being put to act the Emperour's daughter, which is a great and serious part, which she does most basely.</p> <p>"14th (September, 1667). To the King's playhouse, to see 'The -Northerne Castle, (quære <i>Lasse</i>, by Richard Brome?) which I think +Northerne Castle, (quære <i>Lasse</i>, by Richard Brome?) which I think I never did see before. Knipp acted in it, and did her part very extraordinary well; but the play is but a mean sorry play.</p> @@ -14698,7 +14659,7 @@ there, and mighty merry: a farce.</p> <p>"15th (September 1668). To the King's playhouse to see a new play, acted but yesterday, a translation out of French by Dryden, -called 'The Ladys à la Mode' [probably the Precieuses, but not +called 'The Ladys à la Mode' [probably the Precieuses, but not translated by Dryden]: so mean a thing as when they came to say it would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it (Beeston) and the pit fell a-laughing.</p> @@ -15074,7 +15035,7 @@ knew it would be done good-naturedly. Accordingly the <p> "For the information of posterity I shall comply with this letter, and set these two great men in such a light as Sallust has placed his -Cato and Cæsar. Mr. William Bullock and Mr. William Penkethman +Cato and Cæsar. Mr. William Bullock and Mr. William Penkethman are of the same age, profession, and sex. They both distinguish themselves in a very particular manner under the discipline of the crab tree, with this only difference, that Mr. Bullock has the more agreeable @@ -15700,7 +15661,7 @@ audience by shedding real tears.<a name="FNanchor_272" id="FNanchor_272" href="# <p>Macklin was celebrated in Shylock; and in some other sarcastic parts, particularly that of Sir Archy, in his comedy -of "Love-à-la-Mode." We take him to have been one of +of "Love-à -la-Mode." We take him to have been one of those actors whose performances are confined to the reflection of their own personal peculiarities. The merits of Shuter, Edwin, Quick, and others who succeeded one another as @@ -16214,7 +16175,7 @@ however, the lady did not wear all these colours at once.</p> frolic of Sir Charles Sedley, Lord Buckhurst, and others, frequently mentioned in the biographies, but too disgusting to be told. There was an account of it in Pepys' manuscript, -but it was obliged to be omitted in the printing. Anthony à +but it was obliged to be omitted in the printing. Anthony à Wood found it out, and first gave it to the public. It was not commonly dissolute, there was a filthiness in it, which would have been incredible if told of any other period than that of @@ -18838,7 +18799,7 @@ The best thing to say for</p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> -<p>—— sharpèd steeples high shot up in air</p> +<p>—— sharpèd steeples high shot up in air</p> </div> </div> </div> @@ -19962,7 +19923,7 @@ ruling principles of architecture and painting</i>. Vanbrugh's fate was that of the great Perrault. Both were the objects of the petulant sarcasms of factious men of letters, and both have left some of the fairest monuments which, to this day, -decorate their several countries;—the façade of the Louvre; +decorate their several countries;—the façade of the Louvre; Blenheim, and Castle Howard."<a name="FNanchor_333" id="FNanchor_333" href="#Footnote_333" class="fnanchor">[333]</a> Perrault, however, had a worse fate than Vanbrugh, for the Frenchman was ridiculed not only as an architect but as a man of letters, whereas our @@ -21129,7 +21090,7 @@ Anne):—</p> <p class="i1">With innocent blood to feed myselfe <i>fat</i>,</p> <p class="i1">And do most hurt where that most help I offer</p> <p>I am not he that can allow the state</p> -<p class="i1">Of hye Cæsar, and damn Cato to die;</p> +<p class="i1">Of hye Cæsar, and damn Cato to die;</p> </div> </div> </div> @@ -21449,10 +21410,10 @@ Heutzner, the German traveller:—</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="o1">"The fisherman who has been wounded learns, though late, to beware:</p> -<p class="i1">But the unfortunate Actæon always presses on.</p> +<p class="i1">But the unfortunate Actæon always presses on.</p> <p>The chaste Virgin naturally pitied;</p> <p class="i1">But the powerful Goddess revenged the wrong.</p> -<p>Let Actæon fall a prey to his dogs,</p> +<p>Let Actæon fall a prey to his dogs,</p> <p class="i1">An example to youth,</p> <p>A disgrace to those that belong to him!</p> <p class="i1">May Diana live the care of Heaven,</p> @@ -22376,8 +22337,8 @@ vast—what are we to call it?—</p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> -<p class="o1">"Chi mi darà le voci e le parole</p> -<p>Convenienti a sì nobil soggetto?"</p> +<p class="o1">"Chi mi darà le voci e le parole</p> +<p>Convenienti a sì nobil soggetto?"</p> </div> </div> </div> @@ -22386,7 +22347,7 @@ vast—what are we to call it?—</p> world explain, who equally reprobate the place and its master, and yet somehow are so willing to hear it reprobated, that they read endless accounts of it, old and new, from the not -very bashful <i>exposé</i> of the Count de Grammont, down to the +very bashful <i>exposé</i> of the Count de Grammont, down to the blushing deprecations of Mrs. Jameson. Mr. Jesse himself begins with emphatically observing, that "a professed apology either for the character or conduct of Charles II. might @@ -22534,7 +22495,7 @@ Gwyn, all have their respective lodgings in Whitehall, looking out upon gardens, elegant with balconies and trellises. By degrees the little dukes grow bigger, and there is in particular a great romping boy, very handsome, called Master Crofts, -afterwards Duke of Monmouth, who is the protégé of Lady +afterwards Duke of Monmouth, who is the protégé of Lady Castlemain, though his mother was Mrs. Walters, and who takes the most unimaginable liberties in all quarters. He annoys exceedingly the solemn Duke of York, the King's @@ -23052,7 +23013,7 @@ put into verse (if the recollection be not thought an impertinence); and there, without knowing what it was called, or who it was that wrote it, we carried back with us to school the theme of a glorious composition, which afterwards became -a favourite with opera-goers under the title of <i>Non più andrai</i>, +a favourite with opera-goers under the title of <i>Non più andrai</i>, the delightful march in <i>Figaro</i>. We suppose it is now, and has ever since been played there, to the martialisation of hundreds of little boys, and the puzzlement of philosophy. @@ -23530,23 +23491,23 @@ LONDON</p> <hr class="l15" /> <p class="center"> -<span class="b12">By the Sisters BRONTË.</span><br /> +<span class="b12">By the Sisters BRONTË.</span><br /> <i>2s. 6d. each</i>.</p> -<p class="hanging">JANE EYRE. By Charlotte Brontë.</p> +<p class="hanging">JANE EYRE. By Charlotte Brontë.</p> -<p class="hanging">SHIRLEY. By Charlotte Brontë.</p> +<p class="hanging">SHIRLEY. By Charlotte Brontë.</p> -<p class="hanging">VILLETTE. By Charlotte Brontë.</p> +<p class="hanging">VILLETTE. By Charlotte Brontë.</p> -<p class="hanging">THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL. By Anne Brontë.</p> +<p class="hanging">THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL. By Anne Brontë.</p> -<p class="hanging">WUTHERING HEIGHTS. By Emily Brontë.</p> -<p class="hanging">AGNES GREY. By Anne Brontë. -With Preface and Memoir of the Sisters, by Charlotte Brontë.</p> +<p class="hanging">WUTHERING HEIGHTS. By Emily Brontë.</p> +<p class="hanging">AGNES GREY. By Anne Brontë. +With Preface and Memoir of the Sisters, by Charlotte Brontë.</p> -<p class="hanging">THE PROFESSOR. By Charlotte Brontë. To which are added the Poems of -Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.</p> +<p class="hanging">THE PROFESSOR. By Charlotte Brontë. To which are added the Poems of +Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.</p> <hr class="l15" /> @@ -23567,7 +23528,7 @@ Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.</p> <p class="hanging">LIZZIE LEIGH, <span class="smcap">and other Tales</span>.</p> -<p class="hanging">LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË.</p> +<p class="hanging">LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË.</p> <hr class="l15" /> <p class="center"><span class="b12">By LEIGH HUNT.</span><br /> @@ -23623,7 +23584,7 @@ the Author of 'Wheat and Tares.'</p> <p class="hanging">IN THE SILVER AGE. By Holme Lee.</p> -<p class="hanging">CARITÀ. By Mrs. Oliphant.</p> +<p class="hanging">CARITÀ. By Mrs. Oliphant.</p> <p class="hanging">WITHIN THE PRECINCTS. By Mrs. Oliphant.</p> @@ -23706,13 +23667,13 @@ the Author of 'Wheat and Tares.'</p> <p class="hanging">THE HOTEL DU PETIT ST. JEAN.</p> -<p class="hanging">VERA. By the Author of 'The Hôtel du Petit St. Jean.'</p> +<p class="hanging">VERA. By the Author of 'The Hôtel du Petit St. Jean.'</p> -<p class="hanging">IN THAT STATE OF LIFE. By Hamilton Aidé.</p> +<p class="hanging">IN THAT STATE OF LIFE. By Hamilton Aidé.</p> -<p class="hanging">MORALS AND MYSTERIES. By Hamilton Aïdé.</p> +<p class="hanging">MORALS AND MYSTERIES. By Hamilton Aïdé.</p> -<p class="hanging">MR. AND MRS. FAULCONBRIDGE. By Hamilton Aïdé.</p> +<p class="hanging">MR. AND MRS. FAULCONBRIDGE. By Hamilton Aïdé.</p> <p class="hanging">SIX MONTHS HENCE. By the Author of 'Behind the Veil' &c.</p> @@ -23724,9 +23685,9 @@ the Author of 'Wheat and Tares.'</p> <p class="hanging">PEARL AND EMERALD. By R. E. Francillon.</p> -<p class="hanging">ISEULTE. By the Author of 'The Hôtel du Petit St. Jean.'</p> +<p class="hanging">ISEULTE. By the Author of 'The Hôtel du Petit St. Jean.'</p> -<p class="hanging">PENRUDDOCKE. By Hamilton Aïdé.</p> +<p class="hanging">PENRUDDOCKE. By Hamilton Aïdé.</p> <p class="hanging">A GARDEN OF WOMEN. By Sarah Tytler.</p> @@ -24032,7 +23993,7 @@ if the whole passage is called to mind. It is Ovid;</p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poem s09"> -<p>Nam genus, et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi,</p> +<p>Nam genus, et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi,</p> <p>Vix ea nostra voco.—<i>Metamor</i>. lib. 13. v. 140.</p> <p>For birth, and rank, and what our own good powers</p> <p>Have earned us not, I scarcely call them ours.</p> @@ -24094,7 +24055,7 @@ given him money." But Aubrey's authority is not valid against Wood's. He is to be read like a proper gossip, whose accounts we may pretty safely reject or believe, as it suits other testimony.</p> -<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_77" id="Footnote_77" href="#FNanchor_77"><span class="label">[77]</span></a> Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, fol. vol. ii., p. 145.</p> +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_77" id="Footnote_77" href="#FNanchor_77"><span class="label">[77]</span></a> Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, fol. vol. ii., p. 145.</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_78" id="Footnote_78" href="#FNanchor_78"><span class="label">[78]</span></a> Baker's Biographia Dramatica. Reed's edition, 1782, vol. i., p. 207.</p> @@ -24856,7 +24817,7 @@ volumes known under the title of his Miscellanies:—"The contribution, although ample, was not satisfactory to old Jacob Tonson, who wrote on the subject a most mercantile expostulatory letter to Dryden, which is fortunately still preserved, as a curious specimen of the -minutiæ of a literary bargain in the seventeenth century. Tonson, +minutiæ of a literary bargain in the seventeenth century. Tonson, with reference to Dryden, having offered a strange bookseller six hundred lines for twenty guineas, enters into a question in the rule of three, by which he discovers and proves, that for fifty guineas he has @@ -25112,7 +25073,7 @@ which, some years back, was regretted by every lover of literature.</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_346" id="Footnote_346" href="#FNanchor_346"><span class="label">[346]</span></a> Biographical History of England. Vol. ii., p. 7. Fifth Edition.</p> -<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_347" id="Footnote_347" href="#FNanchor_347"><span class="label">[347]</span></a> <i>Nugæ Antiquæ</i>, Ed. 1804, vol i., p. 348, <i>et seq.</i> (Quoted in a note +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_347" id="Footnote_347" href="#FNanchor_347"><span class="label">[347]</span></a> <i>Nugæ Antiquæ</i>, Ed. 1804, vol i., p. 348, <i>et seq.</i> (Quoted in a note to Peyton's "Catastrophe of the Stuarts," in "Secret History of the Court of James I." Vol. ii., p. 387.)</p> @@ -25135,383 +25096,6 @@ the Stuarts, vol. ii., p. 91.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Town, by Leigh Hunt - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TOWN *** - -***** This file should be named 42060-h.htm or 42060-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/0/6/42060/ - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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