Volume 1

Wine and walnuts; or, after dinner chit-chat / by Ephraim Hardcastle [i.e. W.H. Pyne].

  • Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wine and walnuts; or, after dinner chit-chat / by Ephraim Hardcastle [i.e. W.H. Pyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cumlocution, (being too old now to alter) by persisting to pen my sage observations in the first person — I myself I, hating congenially with my ancient friends * *, Baron M ***** s, and Mr. 0*** *0, among the other ten thou¬ sand innovations, those of him and we, as though in this mincing age, every man must mince the matter of propria persona^ and worry his brains to stand before the world after all, another Tom Fool, his own amanuensis, by writing as though mister some-one-else sat at his elbow and prompted every line. Well, gentle reader, I will endeavour to show thee how this faculty arose in my mind, how far it * Among these is that innovation which has banished pies from table. The sterling Mr. .% % % who has outlived all his family, resides with a worthy matron who keeps a boarding-house; she is a little romantic, and he a little fastidious — ‘‘ Will you take a bit of tart?” asks the good lady every day. — No, Madam,” invariably answers the guest, “ but I will take a bit of pieT This is all in good part, and the recurrence, I verily believe, contributes to lengthen his days. I know not two worthier souls than he and the Baron; and both, my seniors by many years, read without spectacles.