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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
Various
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
Louder, louder, chant the lay,
Waken, lords and ladies say,
Tell them youth, and mirth and glee,
Run a course as well as we,
Time, stern huntsman! who can balk,
Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk?
Think of this, without delay,
Gentle lords and ladies gay.
Houses undoubtedly present to the eye of fancy, an appearance analogous to physiognomical expression in men. The remark has been made by more acute observers than myself.
Look at that beetle-browed, solemn looking mansion with a ponderous hat-roofI mean of slates, garnished with bay windowsobserve its heavy jaws of areas, its hard, close mouth of a door; its dark, deep sunken eyes of windows peering out from the heavy brow of dark stone coping that supports the slate hat in question: what a contrast to the spruce mock gentility of its neighbour, with a stand-up collar of white steps, a varnished face, and a light, jaunty, yet stiff air, like a city apprentice in his best clothes.