Modern Merry Men Authors In The Lighter Vein In The Victorian Era

Author : William Andrews
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230103495
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Modern Merry Men; Authors in the Lighter Vein in the Victorian Era written by William Andrews and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...and a couple of potatoes. Nor with that long-legged isosceles triangle that bumptiously bestrides the asses' bridge. Sometimes it is the mother--always would be so if mothers were not so terribly like hens with broods of ducklings--so fearfully afraid of the young gentleman's taking to bad practices without giving anybody notice. Sometimes sisters--elder sisters, I mean----are of some service; but they are too often occupied with their own troubles, and with deciding whether they will. "be sisters of mercy or girls of the period. Cousins are better: one's cousins, strangely enough, seem seldom such fools as one's sisters. But. sweethearts without kinship are best of all. No man finishes his education until he falls in love." We get in the next sentence, expressed epigrammatically, his idea of the difference between a Tory and a Liberal. "A Tory is a man who believes that England should be governed by gentlemen. A Liberal is a man who believes that any Englishman may become a gentleman if he likes." The fair was a popular institution in this country in the past, and it was an institution which Collins could not tolerate. He says: "The rough, broad humour of the English fair was in full. 'progress. It is always a vulgar sort of entertainment, with evil flavour of execrable beer and tobacco, and much looseness of discourse. You will get no better till you educate the people--and you will not educate the people until you learn that they are of more value than the land, or the cities of luxury, towers of labour, mansions of comfort, built upon the land. If our statesmen could be taught the one great political idea, namely, that God's noblest creation is an Englishman, and that if we develop the greatest...