The Paris sketch book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh and eastern sketches, a journey from Cornwall to Cairo, the Irish sketch book and character sketches (1840)
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 · New York : A. L. Burt · leaf 651
1T5 THE IRISH SKETCH EoOIv. Roger then went home, and so famous did he become, tiiat no one dared take aii3 thing but what belonged to them, fearing that the Spaeman would discover on them. And so we shut up the Hedge-school Library, and close the Galwa3’ Nights’ Entertainments. They are not quite… … once in away. While we have Signor Costa in a white neck-cloth ordering opera-bands to play for us the music of Donizetti, which is not only sublime but genteel : of course such poor little operatives as he who inlays the wind instrument yonder caunot expect to be heard often. But is not this…
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
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