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' Her Majesty's Nameand a Caution thereo...
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HER MAJESTY'S NAME;
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Vicissitudesof A Lecture;
A few oranges , perhaps ? By no means . A sandwich ? Not in the least . What then ?
—A pot of aleand some bread and cheese . There was no harm in it Geniuses have made many a hearty meal upon bread and
cheese , and been glad that they could get it ; only , somehow , the very poetical dignity of the recitation , the immense idealism of the lecturer , and the aristo-
Vicissitudesof A Lecture;
cracy of the satin small-clothes , had not prepared the spectators for so unsophistieate a refreshment ; and they were glad to
pretend an outcry of alarm and sympathy , in order to drown what they could of the otherwise inextinguishable laughter which shook the place .
What followed we totally forget , perhaps because we came away ; but never shall we forget thee , and thy publicities and retirements , honest Ned Pounchy .
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Her Majesty's Name;
HER MAJESTY'S NAME ;
Her Majesty's Name;
AND A CAUTION THEREON . " Victoria I Victoria ! the bold Britons cry . " DftYDEN
Modestly speaking , and with only the candour and conscious dignity becoming a Magazine , we ask the reader , what quotation , what motto at the head of an article , — can possibly be better than the above ? Is it
not true , literal , spirited , seasonable , and amazing ? But the best of it is , that it is better than in Dry den _hitrtfcelf , and now only , for the first time , makes his words true : for the
Britons in those days ( he is writing of the times of King Arthur ) assuredly did not cry _" Victoria / ' when they got a victory . They did not speak
Her Majesty's Name;
Latin . They cried in Welsh . Whereas now , most certainly , the Britons , whether Welsh or English , Scotch or Irish , do cry " Victoria , " and most
lustily too , as any body might have heard , had he attended the reading of the Proclamation the other day , with Mr _O'Connell _' s voice at the top of all the shouting manhood .
But to come to our subject Juliet _^ in the play , asks "What ' s in a name ? " and says that " Arose By any other name would smell at swMt " But , with the lady ' s leave , a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/27/
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