The Ingoldsby legends - PDF by Thomas Ingoldsby

Download The Ingoldsby legends - PDF by Thomas Ingoldsby

The Ingoldsby legends 

In order utterly to squash and demolish every gainsayer, I had thought, at one time, of asking my old and esteemed friend, Richard Lane, to crush .them at once with his magic pencil, and to transmit my features to posterity, where all his works are sure to be ' delivered according to the direction '; but somehow the noble-looking profiles which he has recently executed of the Kemble family put me a little out of conceit of my own, while the undisguised amusement which my ( Mephistopheles Eyebrow/ as he termed it, afforded him, in the 'full face,' induced me to lay aside the design. 

Besides, my dear Sir, since, as has well been observed, ' there never was a married man yet who had not somebody remarkably like him walking about town,' it is a thousand to one but my lineaments might, after all, out of sheer perverseness, be ascribed to anybody rather than to the real owner. I have therefore sent you, instead thereof, a fair sketch of Sappington, taken from the Folkestone road (I tore it last night out of Julia Simpkinsoii's album); get Gilks to make a woodcut of it. 

And now, if any miscreant (I use the word only in its primary and ' Pickwickian ' sense of ( Unbeliever ') ventures to throw any further doubt upon the matter, why, as Jack Cade's friend says in the play, ' There are the chimneys in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it! ' ' Why, very well then — we hope here be truths! ' 

Heaven be with you, my dear Sir ! — I was getting a little excited: but you, who are mild as the milk that dews the soft whisker of the new-weaned kitten, will forgive me when, wiping away the nascent moisture from my brow, 1 ' pull in,' and subscribe myself, Yours quite as much as his own,

Some contents:

Legend of Hamilton Tighe, . . . . . . 32

The Witches' Frolic, 35

The Jackdaw of Rheims, 51

A Lay of St. Dunstan, 55

A Lay of St. Gengulphus, 67

The Lay of St. Odille. 78

A Lay of St. Nicholas, . . . . . ... 86

The Tragedy, 95

Mr Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation,. 100

The 'Monstre' Balloon, 103

Hon. Mr Sucklethumbkin's Story— The Execution, . 1D7

Some Account of a New Play, Ill

Mr Peters's Story— The Bagman's Dog, . . .121

Appendix," 138

The Black MQUsquetaire, 138

Sir Rupert the Fearless, 161

The Merchant of Venice, 172

The Auto-da-fe, 186

The Ingoldsby Penance, . ... 207

Netley Abbey, 221

Fragment, 226

Nell Cook, 228

Nursery Reminiscences, 239

Aunt Fanny, 241

Misadventures at Margate, 250

The Smuggler's Leap, 256

Blondie Jacke of Shrewsberrie,. .263

The Babes in the Wood,,276

The Dead Drummer, 282

A Row in an Omnibus (Box), 295

The Lay of St. Cuthbert, 300

The Lay of St. Aloys, 314

The Lay of the Old Woman Clothed in Grey, . . 325

Raising the Devil, 344

The Lay of St. Medard, 345

The Lord of Toulouse, 353

The Wedding-Day; or, The Buccaneer's Curse, . . 367

The Blasphemer's Warning, 383

The Brothers of Birchington, 406

The Knight and the Lady, 419

The House- Warming 429

The Forlorn One, 444

Unsophisticated Wishes, 445

Hermann; or, The Broken Spear 447

Hints for a Historical Play, 450

Marie Mignot, 452

The Truants, 454

The Poplar, . 458

My Letters, 459

New-Made Honour, 462

The Confession, 462

Song,. 463

Epigram, 464

the book details :

Author:Thomas Ingoldsby

Publication date: [1907]

Company: London H. Frowde, Oxford University Press

---

Download 17.9 MB