Books with author George Augustus Sala

In the last century—and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking—long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. When he came back, if at all, it was, as a rule, grizzled and sunburnt, his native habits all unlearnt, and his native tongue more than half forgotten. Even the Grand Tour, with all that money could purchase in the way of couriers and post-horses, to expedite matters for my Lord, his chaplain, his courier, and his dancing master, took as many years as it now does months to accomplish. There were no young novelists in those days to make a flying-trip to the Gaboon country, to ascertain whether the stories told by former tourists about shooting gorillas were fibs or not. There were no English engineers, fresh from Great George Street, Westminster, writing home to the Athenæum to say that they had just opened a branch railway up to Ephesus, and that (by the way) they had discovered a præ-Imperial temple of Juno the day before yesterday. Unprotected females didn't venture in "unwhisperables" into the depths of Norwegian forests; or, if they hazarded such undertakings their unprotectedness led them often to fall into cruel hands, and they never returned.

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Excerpt from From Waterloo to the Peninsula, Vol. 2 of 2: Four Months Hard Labour in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and SpainShould there be a revolution in some months' time Has Sedition become an accepted bill, and must it fall.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 reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twice Round the Clock, or the Hours of the Day and Night in LondonI believe your present ambition extends only to few-acre farming and the rearing of poultry, and I might well exhort you to return to your literary pursuits, and to leave the Dorkings and Cochin Chinas alone. But I refrain. Am I to insult my Patron with advice? Do I expect any reward for my dedication? Will your Lordship send me a handful of broad-pieces for my flattery s sake by the hands of your gentleman's gentleman? Will you put me down for the next vacancy as a Com missioner of Hackney Coaches, or the next reversion for a snug sine cure connected with the Virginia Plantations or the Leeward Islands? Will your Lordship invite me to dinner at your country-seat, and place me between Lady Betty and the domestic chaplain? May I write rhyming epitaphs for her ladyship's pug-dog, untimely deceased from excess of cream and chicken? Or will you' speak to Mr. Secretary in my behalf, lest that last paper of mine against Ministers in Mist's Weekly Journal should draw down on me the ex-oficio wrath of Mr. Attorney-general, and cause my ears to be nailed to the pillory? Can I ever hope to crack a bottle in your Lordship's society at Button's, or to see your Lordship's coach-and-six before my lodgings in Little Britain? Let us be thankful, rather, that the species of literary patronage at which I have hinted exists no longer, and that an Author has no need to toady his Patron in order to make him his friend. For what more in cordiality and kind-fellowship I could say, you will, I am sure, give me credit. Ten friendship is paraded too much in public, its entire sincerity may be Open to doubt. I am afraid that Orestes, so affectionate on the stage, has often declined in the green-room to lend Pylades sixpence; and I am given to under stand, that Damon has often come down from the platform, where he has been saying such flourishing fine things about Pythias, and in private life has spoken somewhat harshly of that worthy.You will observe that, with the economy which we should all strive to inculcate in an age of Financial Reform, I have made these remarks to serve two ends. You are to take them, if you please.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 reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Sir Gawain is without a doubt the greatest of King Arthur's English Knights: fiercely loyal, hot-headed, and fearlessly brave. Collected here in this edition are 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' translated by Jessie Weston; 'Gawain and the Lady of Avalon' by George Augustus Simcox; 'Sir Gawaine's Quest for the White Hart' by Sir Thomas Malory; 'Sir Gawain Meets Sir Prianius' by Sir James Knowles; 'Sir Gawain and the Maid with the Narrow Sleeves' by Rupert S. Holland; 'Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys' translated by Jessie L. Weston; 'Sir Gawain and the Lady' by Beatrice Clay; 'The Marriage of Sir Gawaine' by Bishop Thomas Percy; 'The Last Love of Gawaine' by Richard Hovey; 'Of Sir Gawaine's Hatred, and the War with Sir Lancelot' by Henry Gilbert; 'Castle Orguellous' translated by Jessie L. Weston; and 'Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale' by Charlton Miner Lewis. Return to a time when chivalry and bravery reigned.

Excerpt from Temple Bar, Vol. 85: With Which Is Incorporated "Bentley's Miscellany," a London Magazine, for Town and Country Readers; January to April 1889During the week the keeper's wife washed in the basement and Blopped soapy water about, that ran between the slates and formed puddles, lurking under corners, and when, on Sunday, the incautious foot rested on an angle of slate, the slab tilted and squirted forth the stale, unsavoury water.The room, as already said, was unceiled. The rafters were of solid oak; the boards above were of deal, and had shrunk in places, and in places dropped out the core of their knots. The keeper's children found a pleasure in poking sticks and fingers through, and in lying flat on the floor with an eye on the knot hole, surveying through it the proceedings in the Sunday-school below.About the floor in unsystematic arrangement spraddled forms of deal, rubbed by boys' trousers to a polish. Some of these forms were high in the leg, others short. No two were on a level, and no two were of the same length. They were rudely set about the floor in rhomboidal shapes, or rather in trapeziums, which according to Euclid have no defined shapes at all.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 reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

George Augustus Sala (1828 ù1895) was an English journalist. He began working as a scene painted and book illustrator. Charles Dickens published his work and later sent him to Russia as a special correspondent. Sala published many volumes of fiction, travels and essays, and he edited various other works, but he is best known for his journalism. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors was published in 1863 in three volumes. This is volume 1. The narrative begins, ôI, JOHN DANGEROUS, a faithful subject of his Majesty King George, whose bread, God bless him! I have eaten, and whose battles I have fought, in my poor way, am now in my sixty-eighth year, and live in My Own House in Hanover Square. By virtue of several commissions, both English and foreign, I have a right to call myself Captain; and if any man say that I have no such right, he Lies, and deserves the Stab.ö