ON DIDACTICS IN POETRY.
ARNASSUS' peaks still catch the sun;
But why—O lyric brother!—
Why build a Pulpit on the one,
A Platform on the other?
Austin Dobson, in Latter-Day Lyrics.
Y old fellow-traveller in Germany, himself an Irishman, being on the box of an Irish mail-coach on a very cold day, and observing the driver enveloping his neck in the voluminous folds of an ample "comforter," remarked, "You seem to be taking very good care of yourself, my friend." "Och, to be shure I am, sir," answered the driver; "what's all the world to a man when his wife's a widdy?"
J. R. Planché, Recollections.
---- has nothing truly human about him; he can't even yawn like a man.
Lady Ashburton, apud Lord Houghton.