My stream of song gushed torrent-like and rude From Heliconian heights, 'mid mist and cloud: Haughty at first, as the' its pride it bowed To humbler things and lowlier neighbourhood-- ...
Article : 3,391 wordsFIRST in the field, as becomes so great a teacher, Mr. Punch warns us of another year's advent: showing us in his frontispiece what Hyde Park will be when a few more years are over, and when the railway mania, indicated in another specimen of Mr. ...
Article : 1,201 wordsLIEUT.-COL. MITCHELL, in his " Fall of Napoleon," makes the following sensible observations on the absurd system of purchasing commissions in the British army :--"The British troops, though the first to check the soldiers of ...
Article : 959 wordsA LETTER appears in a late number of the London Times which it is impossible to read without sympathising with the fine spirit of national enthusiasm in which it is written. It is in answer to a charge brought by M. Thiers, in his History of the Consulate. ...
Article : 1,176 wordsTO the reflecting philanthropist nothing can be clearer than that the delightful task of rearing the tender thought and teaching the young idea how to shoot, must in these days be performed on an entirely new principle. ...
Article : 602 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Spectator (Sydney, NSW : 1846), Sat 14 Mar 1846, Page 90
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: