William Combe
Published: 2012-02
Total Pages: 306
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: list of tfce fides. 1 Dr. Syntax setting out . . . Page 18 2 Dr. Syntax losing his Way ... 22 3 Dr. Syntax stopped by Highwaymen . . .24 4 Dr. Syntax bound to a Tree by Highwaymen . . 28 5 Dr. Syntax disputing his Bill with the Landlady . . 37 6 Dr. Syntax copying the Wit of the Window . . 47 7 Dr. Syntax entertained at College . . . .53 8 Dr. Syntax pursued by a Bull ... 55 9 Dr. Syntax mistakes a Gentleman's House for an Inn . . 64 10 Dr. Syntax meditating on the Tombs ... 73 11 Dr. Syntax tumbling into the Water . . .87 12 Dr. Syntax loses his Money on the Race-Ground . . 95 13 Dr. Syntax at a Review . . . .105 14 Dr. Syntax with my Lord . . . 118 15 Dr. Syntax made free of the Cellar . . . .119 16 Dr. Syntax sketching the Lake . . . 129 17 Dr. Syntax drawing after Nature .... 140 18 Dr. Syntax robbed of his property . . . 150 19 Dr. Syntax sells Grizzle . . . .160 20 Rural Sports . . . .172 21 Dr. Syntax and the Dairy-Maid . . . .179 22 Dr. Syntax at Liverpool . . . .191 23 Dr. Syntax reading his Tour . . . .207 24 Dr. Syntax preaching . . . .211 25 Dr. Syntax and Bookseller . . . .234 26 Dr. Syntax at Covent Garden Theatre . . . 255 27 The Dream . . . . . .271 28 Dr. Syntax returned from the Tour . . .292 29 Dr. Syntax taking Possession of hia Living . . . 312 y Frontispiece and Title-pagb. SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE. CANTO I. The School was done, the business o'er, When tired of Greek and Latin lore, Good Syntax sought his easy chair, And sat in calm composure there. His wife was to a neighbour gone, To hear the chit-chat of the town; And left him the unfrequent power Of brooding through a quiet hour. Thus, while he sat, a busy train Of images, besieg...