The Americans / By an American in London.

  • Calvin Colton
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Americans / By an American in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flip land, and lor many months, or a year or two, the common newspapers reported her pro- gress, as regularly, as that of any menagerie, or exti aordinary mountebank show, that ever passed thiough the Union. Hearers and admirers she never wanted; for every tavern and whiskey and ale-house, and every den of vice in the land, dis- gorged their filthy and staggering hordes, who swallowed the delicious hopes she held out to them, with as much satisfaction as their drams j and swore roundly to the truth and excellence of her doctrine, and staggered back to their cups and debauchery. To return Mrs. Trollope,” says the Quar- terly Reviewer, “ according to her own story, lelt England an ultra-whig as to Church and State, with a view of inspecting a country ruled on really liberal principles, under the guidance of a cicerone no less liberal, than the far famed Miss F1 ances Wright, then lecturer-itinerant against Christianity, and Matrimony, and all other old-fashioned delusions, but now, alas ! for philosophy ! a Mother!—and we have been told —(though we forget the name)—a wife !” The facetious Blackwood introduces her in the following style: “ Mrs. Trollope, being instigated
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