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Excerpt from Second Edition of a Discovery Concerning Ghosts: With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers", To Which Is Added a Few Parting Raps at the "Rappers, " and Questions, Suggestions, and Advice to the Davenport BrothersCorporal Q who was lying ill in bed, and also to a comrade who was an invalid lying in the next bed. This was in the night, but the cor poral could see that she was dressed in a ¿annel gown, edged with a black ribbon, exactly lik...

Excerpt from The Scourge, Vol. 5: Or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and FollyDr. Cantwell, the rector of P shall meet with the rat-1 tention that his godly and multifarious avocations merit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recon...

Excerpt from The Scourge, Vol. 4: Or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and FollyIn the newspapers - the Oracle, the Porcupine when it ex isted, the General Evening Post, the Morning Post, the British Press, the Courier, I have published many reports of debates in parliament, and I believe a greater variety of light fugitive pieces than I know to have been written by any one other person.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of tho...

Excerpt from The Scourge, or Literary, Theatrical and Miscellaneous Magazine, 1814, Vol. 8Ambition and avarice are often the cause of ruining nations as well as individuals. We have a striking proof of the power by which the former can impel a man to rush upon his own destruction, ln the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte, and I fear we shall soon be able to adduce an example from amongst our selves of the dominion the latter may attain over a heart o...

Excerpt from The Scourge, or Literary, Theatrical and Miscellaneous Magazine, Vol. 7: January 1, 1814Professor Frost throws himself on British gratitude, under a consciousness of having deserved it, by refus ing the splendid offers of the French emperor, previous to his advance into Russia, for a disclosure of this impor tant and invaluable discovery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

Excerpt from The Scourge, or Literary, Theatrical and Miscellaneous Magazine, 1816, Vol. 11Addressed to the most serious consideration of all and several! Whom it may concern.Tm: case and treatment of that unfortunate class of our fellow-beings, who labour under mental derange ment, and whose malady from motives of general safety.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forg...

Excerpt from The Scourge, or Literary, Theatrical and Miscellaneous Magazine, 1815, Vol. 10Whose magic cup makes royal heads turn round There P and at his heels a hundred more, Whose names the Muse reluctant passes o'er.To give them all, would ask ten thousand tongues, A throat of brass, and adamantine lungs 1 Now in the royal presence are they brought, With expectation big, and anxious thought, And now his royal favour to evince.About the Pub...

Excerpt from Peter Schlemihl: From the German of Lamotte FouqueIn 1813 I was living in the coun try, near Berlin, and having been separated by circumstances from Schlemihl for a long time, I had completely lost sight of him, when one foggy autumn morning, having slept late, I learned upon awakening that a man with a long beard, dressed in a black coat, old and shabby, and wearing large slippers over his shoes, had inquired for me, and left a p...

Excerpt from The Pocket Magazine, Vol. 1: Robins's SeriesEvery body knows that the immense mountains of the Hertz are under the dominion of a powerful Gnome. He resides commonly in the vast regions which form the interior of the earth's surface, and, when he does appear above it, his most favourite sport is to frighten and torment hapless travellers. The chances are always equal, whether he chooses to be mischievous or benevolent to such of th...

Excerpt from The Scourge, Or, Literary, Theatrical and Miscellaneous Magazine, Vol. 9The true history of our acquiescence under the most enormous burthens, previous to the accessmn of. The Prince Regent, can only be explained by a reference to the per sonal' character of' his majesty. Vvar-taxes, and the' means of carrymg on the war, (if war must be carried on) have seldom excited the clamor ofthe English people, It is of super¿uous, gratuitou...

Excerpt from The Scourge, or Monthly Expositor, of Imposture and Folly, 1811, Vol. 1The editor of the Scouaaa commits his first number to the world with mingled feelings of doubt'and confidence. Indebted as he has been to the former kindness of the public, he cannot but be aware that the office which he has now ventured to assdme', requires not only literary talents but technical experience. In works which ex elusively depend for a favourable ...

Excerpt from The Scourge, or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly, Vol. 1The personal career. Of Lord Byron has been of a nature~ little calculated to deserve the favour of the virtuous part of the community. The ursinb orgies of Trinity C91 lege, Cambridge, were of a character not to be described. His eccentricities alienated the attachment of his friends.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

Excerpt from The Scourge, Vol. 6: Or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and FollyI have been seriously troubled lately by alarming vi~ sions, which have disturbed my rest at night, and occa sioned morning fever on my rise, which have given birth to symptoms of disease, and constitutional debility, threatening my existence. I am not sufficiently skilled in medicine, to prescribe for myself an antidote to their effects, and the state of my tra'de, m...

Excerpt from The Cruikshank Fairy-Book, Vol. 4: Four Famous Stories, I. Puss in Boots, II. Jack and the Bean-Stalk, III. Hop-O'-My-Thumb, IV. CinderellaAss that carried the corn to market to his second son. Baraba, and the Cat which kept the mill free from rats and mice to his youngest son, Caraba. He told them that they might have hardships and difficulties to meet with as they went through life as well as him self, but if they had, they must...

Excerpt from Frank Fairlegh, Vol. 1: Or Scenes From the Life of a Private PupilAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rar...

Excerpt from Points of Humour, Vol. 2The best preface to this set of the points OF HU mour is the former set, which, we are credibly informed, has favorably disposed the muscles of our readers for repeating a certain cackling sound, which is heart food to our friend George Cruikshank.One individual, for certain, has laughed over these points, and he is a very worthy gentleman, who may be. Discerned wedging his way through sundry piles of books...

Excerpt from Old "Miscellany' Days: A Selection of Stories From "Bentley's Miscellany"They were etched on steel by George Cruikshank to illustrate various stories which appeared in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837 to 1842, and they have not been worked since impressions were taken from them for Bentley's Miscellany, and they are now reproduced from the original steel plates.The stories which accompany the plates appeared in the Miscellany from 1...

Excerpt from George Cruikshank's Table-BookT is customary with some poets to make a formal application to the Muses for an illuminating spark of electric fire to be applied to the brain. I confess that I have a predilection for blazing Walls-end, as a means Of warming my imagination which I prefer doing with the combustibles Of every-day life, rather than by means of any fanciful fuel which the Sacred Nine are supposed to deal in. If my brain ...

Excerpt from The Universal Songster, or Museum of Mirth, Vol. 1: Forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English LanguageWe have deemed it requisite to Offer the foregoing cursory remarks on the origin Of English Song, in order to prove that all the subsequent efforts at composition are indebted for their existence to vocal harmony.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from The Pocket Magazine, 1827, Vol. 2: Robin's SeriesWhen all hound is dark and drear, Without one star to light thee on, When Misery sheds the unpitied tear, And wanders through the earth alone, When Memory brings thee no relief, No calm upon a troubled sea, Nor time assuage the pangs of grief, Then - and then only - think of me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...