 | Edward Howard - 1837 - Страниц: 216
...and yet, until this hour, I have never said any thing from morn till night, expect 'pretty Poll! 9 " CHAPTER V. THIS will be a very short chapter; but...asked a foreign countess, pausing before our stuffed parrot—a parrot, with its every feather composed, its eyes replaced, set up in an erect and self-asserting... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1852 - Страниц: 364
...how is this ? are you continually letting fall rich truths — for ever dealing in deep wisdom ? " " Not I," said the macaw ; " I have lived here these...wonders of her museum ! " And pray, what have we here 1 " asked a foreign Countess, pausing before our stuffed parrot — a parrot, with its every feather... | |
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THIS will be a very short chapter ; but to the admirers o1 martyred worth, we trust a very grateful one. Lord Shaftesbury assures us, that no man of genius starves unknown ; his starvation, probably, helping to make him notorious. Even truth has, at last,... 