Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cawl, was fastened a bit of green silk, with the following French lines, richly embroidered in gold, by her own hand. * “ A ccci je dois La Vie da Roi, Si chere que la mienne Depend sur la sienne : Soit au Cieux la gloire De sa Victoire, La source de grande peine A Marie la Reine.” At the queen’s death this valuable casket, with some jewels and other rari- ties, was bequeathed to her sister, the * 1 cannot pay any great compliment to the queen on her muse or her French; but rich as the embroidery is represented, all is not gold that glistens, and the whole may be the lacquered ware of a Barber’s shop. It reminds me of a passage in Athenseus> where one of the Deipnosophists cites Hesiod as enumerating various kinds of salt fish, where produ- ced, and how prepared, which appeared to smack so little of the genius of the sublime Ascrsean, that the whole company were unanimous in vindicating the fame of Hesiod, and saying the verses quoted were more likely to have been the fabrick of a cook-shop, or the Billingsgate of Athens. E,
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