Punch's Prize Novelists: The Fat Contributor, and Travels in London

Front Cover
D. Appleton, 1853 - 306 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 304 - ... July, and I may be permitted for my part to declare that, for the last fourteen days, so salutary has the impression of the butchery been upon me, I have had the man's face continually before my eyes ; that I can see Mr. Ketch at this moment, with an easy air, taking the rope from his pocket ; that I feel myself ashamed and degraded at the brutal curiosity which took me to that brutal sight ; and that I pray to Almighty God to cause this disgraceful sin to pass from among us, and to cleanse our...
Page 234 - ... female emigrants, let us fancy that we are at Melbourne, and not in London, and that we have come down from our sheep-walks, or clearings, having heard of the arrival of forty honest, well-recommended young women, and having a natural longing to take a wife home to the bush — which of these would you like? If you were an Australian Sultan, to which of these would you throw the handkerchief?

Bibliographic information