The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various
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Lady Morgan, in her _Book of the Boudoir_, says, "The late Marquess of Londonderry was a _liveable_, cheerful, _give-and-take person_." Again, "_Vitality_, or _all-a-live-ness_, energy, and activity, are the great elements of what we call talent;" which occasions a critic to observe, "What a prodigious quantity of this "all-a-liveness" her ladyship must have in her composition." * * * * * What burns to keep a secret?--_Sealing Wax_. When is wine like a pig's tusk?--When it is in a hogs head. C.J.T. * * * * * The young Duke of Rutland, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in a drunken frolic knighted the landlord of an inn in a country town. Being told the next morning what he had done, the duke sent for _mine host_, and begged of him to consider the ceremonial as merely a drunken frolic. "For my own part, my lord duke, I should readily comply with your excellency's wish; but Lady O'Shannessy!" * * * * * |
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