The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
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church; but _port_ wine, made _copiously potable_ by being mulled and
burnt, with the _addenda_ of roasted lemons all bristling like angry hedge-hogs (studded with cloves,) is dignified with the appellation of _Bishop_: Beneath some old oak, come and rest thee, my hearty; Our foreheads with roses, oh! let us entwine! And, inviting young Bacchus to be of the party, We'll drown all our troubles in oceans of wine! And perfumed with _Macassar_ or _Otto_ of roses, We'll pass round the BISHOP, the spice-breathing cup, And take of that medicine such wit-breeding doses, We'll knock _down_ the god, or he shall knock us _up_. * * * * * GAZETTED AND IN THE GAZETTE. These terms imply very different things. The son of a nobleman is _gazetted_, as a cornet in a regiment, and all his friends rejoice. John Thomson is _in the Gazette_, and all his friends lament. * * * * * UNFORTUNATE CASE. A zealous priest in the north of Ireland missed a constant auditor from his congregation, in which schism had already made depredations. "What keeps our friend Farmer B----away from us?" was the anxious question |
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