Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2Grego, Joseph
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Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2
Grego, Joseph
English wit and humor, Pictorial; Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
A View in Camelford, Cornwall Sept. 1, 1809.
The Seat of M. Mitchell, Esq., Hengar, Cornwall Sept. 1 "
A Cottage in the Duchy of Cornwall Sept. 1 "
Village of St. Udy, Cornwall Sept. 1 "
Fowey, Cornwall Sept. 30 "
A View near Richmond Oct. 4 "
A View in Devonshire Oct. 4 "
Taunton Vale, Somersetshire Nov. 25 "
View near Newport, Isle of Wight Nov. 25 "
Temple at Strawberry Hill Nov. 25 "
White Lion Inn, Ponders End, Middlesex Nov. 25 "
STERNE'S 'SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.'
CALAIS.
_The Coach-yard of Monsieur Dessein's Inn._--'This certainly, fair
lady,' said I, raising her hand up a little lightly as I began, 'must
be one of Fortune's whimsical doings: to take two utter strangers by
their hands--of different sexes, and perhaps from different corners
of the globe--and in one moment place them together in such a cordial
situation as Friendship herself could scarce have achieved for them,
had she projected it for a month.'
'And your reflection upon it shews how much, monsieur, she has
embarrassed you by the adventure.' In saying this she disengaged her
hand with a look which I thought a sufficient commentary upon the text.
The triumphs of a true feminine heart are short upon these
discomfitures. In a very few seconds she laid her hand upon the cuff of
my coat, in order to finish her reply.
* * * * *
I fear, in this interval, I must have made some slight efforts towards
a closer compression of her hand, from a subtle sensation I felt in the
palm of my own--not as if she was going to withdraw hers, but as if she
thought about it--and I had infallibly lost it a second time, had not
instinct more than reason directed me to the last resource in these
dangers--to hold it loosely, and in a manner as if I was every moment
going to release it of myself; so she let it continue, till Monsieur
Dessein returned with the key; and in the meantime I set myself to
consider how I should undo the ill impressions which the poor monk's
story, in case he had told it her, must have planted in her breast
against me.
[Illustration: YORICK AND FATHER LORENZO.]
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