ble: "He's just _gone off_," replied another,
evidently connected with the theatre. Such is the force of habit.
* * * * *
The late Murgravine of Anspach wrote an impromptu charade, and presented
it to her husband, Lord C., as the person most interested in the subject
of it, and most capable of judging of its truth:--
"Mon premier est un tyran-- mari-
Mon second est un monstre-- age;
Et mon tout est--le diable-- mariage."
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A farmer applied to a county magistrate for a warrant:--"A warrant, for
what?" says the magistrate, "To _take up the weather_, please your
worship."
P.T.W.
N.B. Warrant refused.
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CONVERSATION, (from Swift.)
Nature hath left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of
shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified
for both, who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an
hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Following Novels is already Published:
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Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6
Paul and Virginia 0 6
The Castle of Otranto 0 6
Almoran and Hamet 0 6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6
Rasselas 0 8
The Old English Baron 0 8
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10
Sicilian Romance 1 0
The Man of the World 1 0
A Simple Story 1 4
Joseph Andrews 1 6
Humphry Clinker 1 8
The Romance of the Forest 1 8
The Italian 2 0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore 2 6
Edward, by Dr. Moore 2 6
Roderick Random 2 6
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3 6
Peregrine Pickle 4 6
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