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Salmagundi, Or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others
Salmagundi Or the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff Esq and Others Author:Washington Irving General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Printed for T. Tegg Subjects: Humor / General Humor / Form / Essays Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typo... more »s or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO THE LADIES. FROM THE MILL OF PINDAR COCKLOFT, ESQ. Though jogging down the hill of life, Without the comfort of a wife ; And though I ne'er a helpmate chose, To stock my house and mend my hose; With care my person to adorn, And spruce me up on Sunday morn ; -- Still do I love the gentle sex, And still with cares my brain perplex, To keep the fair ones of the age Unsullied as the spotless page; . All pure, all simple, all refined, The sweetest solace of mankind. I hate the loose insidious jest To beauty's modest ear addrest, And hold that frowns should never fail To check each smooth, but fulsome tale: But he whose impious pen should dare Invade the morals of the fair; £ To taint that purity'divine,« less