>Ah, the quote from Robin was worth it.<
Indeed it was.
2009/9/18 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Ah, the quote from Robin was worth it.
>
> Ashbless appears in Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates....
>
> Doug
>
> On 18-Sep-09, at 12:04 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> Rob
>>
>> Th'answores are blowen in the wyndes?
>>
>>
>> (the reference I meant to Pelham was specifically to Wall's novel and the
>> fictional Richard Pelham, mad eighteenth century poet, he created, but no
>> matter)
>>
>> 2009/9/18 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> dave:
>>>
>>> <<
>>> which features Pelham and was looking for any reference to it.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Pelham is also the title of a novel by Buller Littun, he in the dark
>>> and
>>> stormy night frame.
>>>
>>> One of the notorious Newgate novels, supposed to be the reason society
>>> was
>>> going to the dogs (in 1828) and contains more blowens than you can shake
>>> a
>>> stick at.
>>>
>>> Rodent
>>>
>>> ***********************
>>>
>>> "Ruffling Job, my prince of prigs, is that you? are you come to the ken
>>> alone, or do you carry double?"
>>>
>>> "Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo
>>> muns in spite of the darkmans. Egad, you carry a bane blink aloft. Come
>>> to the ken alone--no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a
>>> pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?"
>>>
>>> "Stubble it, you ben, you deserve to cly the jerk for your patter; come
>>> in, and be d--d to you."
>>>
>>> Upon this invitation, Jonson, seizing me by the arm, pushed me into the
>>> house, and followed. "Go for a glim, Bess, to light in the parish bull
>>> with proper respect. I'll close the gig of the crib."
>>>
>>> From _Pelham_, by BL
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
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>> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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David Bircumshaw
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You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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