The Comic Offering; Or Ladies' Melange of Literary Mirth, for MDCCCXXXI.[-MDCCCXXXV.], Volume 5

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Louisa Henrietta Sheridan
Smith, Elder, and Company, 1835 - English wit and humor
 

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Page 283 - Brushall, might enable me to inquire into tlie abuses of this corporation with sufficient effect. But in the mean time, Mr. Mayor and the rest of them having determined to be beforehand with me, I suppose, accuse me of being no less a person, Mortimer, than that notorious will-o'-the-wisp, Mr. Swing !" "On what grounds, may I ask, have this worshipful assemblage brought this...
Page 145 - tis true, I would gladly command, But that partner must boast of wealth, houses, and land; I have looked round the ball-room, and, try what I can, I fail to discover one Marrying Man ! Time was, in the pride of my girlhood's bright dawn...
Page 282 - Mortimer, sir," commenced the mayor, " I dare say you are surprised to see me here so far out of the bounds of my jurisdiction ; but, sir, as a brother magistrate, I beg to state that I and my corporation left Scratchby this afternoon in pursuit of the celebrated incendiary, Swing, whom we happily caught on your manor, Sir Mowbray, in the illegal and felonious act of striding over your park pales !" " Indeed, sir !" said Sir Mowbray, whose curiosity now began to be excited ; " and where is he ?"...
Page 283 - On what grounds, may I ask, have this worshipful assemblage brought this accusution against my friend here, who is the Honourable Blackstone Littleton, of the Inner Temple, one of the commissioners empowered by ministers to inquire into the abuses of corporate bodies ?" asked Sir Mowbray, as soon as he could conquer his risibility. " Will Mr. Littleton be pleased to account for his absence from the Mermaid between six in the evening, and an hour past midnight on the night of the conflagration on...
Page 270 - Blackwood's Magazine, and the Quarterly," added Mr. Loftus. " We'll write by this day's post, and stop the Times, and the Traveller, and the Star," said Mr. Fox, "and we'll order John Bull, and the Tory County paper." " Very good," observed the town clerk ; " and do you, Boniface, present my compliments to your lodger, and say I wish to speak to him." Mine host, who had formed a shrewd idea of his guest's peculiarities, undertook the office with any thing but alacrity. His mysterious lodger was reposing...
Page 287 - For the benefit of such of my readers as may be curious respecting the development of minor mysteries, I beg to state that Mr. Commissioner Littleton's portmanteau having been mis-sent, he was reduced to the necessity of borrowing articles of dress of his friend, Sir Mowbray Mortimer, at whose mansion he had regularly performed his mysterious toilet, while he had been the " mysterious lodger" at the Mermaid ! SCENE AFTER DINNER.

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