ISBN: 9781153924993

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823. Excerpt: ... plunged a dagger at once to his heart. He was immediately seized by the soldiers; but all his strength seemed gone with the excitement of the moment, and he fell senseless in their arms, They tried in vain to revive him: the assassin had perished with the usurper: but the haggard and ghastly countenance was recognized to be that of Agostino della Monterosa. H. M. ON QUEUES. I Have an instinctive, hereditary love of queues. I do not mean to extend my veneration, (though I like them also,) to those graceful, tapering wands, with which captains in country quarters, and aspiring under-graduates, illustrate the abstruse problems of chances and angles. Yet I admire a game of billiards, without exposing my temper or my pocket to its temptations; foi I am not ashamed of my mediocrity, and have no dislike to receiving a red-hazard. But I was not thinking of such queues. The queues which command my ever-ready respect, are those which a few stately, gray, primitive gentlemen, of a past generation, carry about with them, in all seasons and into all companies, They tell a tale of other days, and I delight to read them. There are only two queues extant in the town in which I was born, and in which I have lived from my boyhood. How many of my old, queue-bearing friends, who used to smile when I, wanton rogue, climbed up their chairs and reverently laid their queues upon their powdered shoulders, how many have passed into the oblivious grave! I sometimes see their venerable shades in my day-dreams, with their ample rouleaus of curls around their temples, and their neatly twisted queues behind their backs. They are gone;--and they are succeeded by a cropped and degenerate race. I am old enough to remember the ''decline and fall'' of the empire of queues. Faithful companions... Charles Knight, Books, Reference and Language, Knight's Quarterly Magazine (volume 1) Books>Reference and Language, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153924993

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… More...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Publisher: Printed for Knight and company; Publication date: 1823; Subjects: English fiction; English literature; Books Language Arts~~General Knights-Quarterly-Magazine~~Charles-Knight General Books LLC The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Publisher: Printed for Knight and company; Publication date: 1823; Subjects: English fiction; English literature;<

ISBN: 1153924994

ISBN: 1153924994