Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta
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Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta
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The repetition of the same letter in the following is very ingenious:—
FELICITOUS FLIGHT OF FANCY.
“A famous fish-factor found himself father of five flirting
females—Fanny, Florence, Fernanda, Francesca, and Fenella. The first
four were flat-featured, ill-favored, forbidding-faced, freckled
frumps, fretful, flippant, foolish, and flaunting. Fenella was a
fine-featured, fresh, fleet-footed fairy, frank, free, and full of
fun. The fisher failed, and was forced by fickle fortune to forego his
footman, forfeit his forefathers’ fine fields, and find a forlorn
farm-house in a forsaken forest. The four fretful females, fond of
figuring at feasts in feathers and fashionable finery, fumed at their
fugitive father. Forsaken by fulsome, flattering fortune-hunters, who
followed them when first they flourished, Fenella fondled her father,
flavored their food, forgot her flattering followers, and frolicked in
a frieze without flounces. The father, finding himself forced to
forage in foreign parts for a fortune, found he could afford a faring
to his five fondlings. The first four were fain to foster their
frivolity with fine frills and fans, fit to finish their father’s
finances; Fenella, fearful of flooring him, formed a fancy for a full
fresh flower. Fate favored the fish-factor for a few days, when he
fell in with a fog; his faithful Filley’s footsteps faltered, and food
failed. He found himself in front of a fortified fortress. Finding it
forsaken, and feeling himself feeble, and forlorn with fasting, he fed
on the fish, flesh, and fowl he found, fricasseed, and when full fell
flat on the floor. Fresh in the forenoon, he forthwith flew to the
fruitful fields, and not forgetting Fenella, he filched a fair flower;
when a foul, frightful, fiendish figure flashed forth: ‘Felonious
fellow, fingering my flowers, I’ll finish you! Fly; say farewell to
your fine felicitous family, and face me in a fortnight!’ The
faint-hearted fisher fumed and faltered, and fast and far was his
flight. His five daughters flew to fall at his feet and fervently
felicitate him. Frantically and fluently he unfolded his fate.
Fenella, forthwith fortified by filial fondness, followed her father’s
footsteps, and flung her faultless form at the foot of the frightful
figure, who forgave the father, and fell flat on his face, for he had
fervently fallen in a fiery fit of love for the fair Fenella. He
feasted her till, fascinated by his faithfulness, she forgot the
ferocity of his face, form, and features, and frankly and fondly fixed
Friday, fifth of February, for the affair to come off. There was
festivity, fragrance, finery, fireworks, fricasseed frogs, fritters,
fish, flesh, fowl, and frumentry, frontignac, flip, and fare fit for
the fastidious; fruit, fuss, flambeaux, four fat fiddlers and fifers;
and the frightful form of the fortunate and frumpish fiend fell from
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