klausnick/莫罗佐夫·尼科莱/профан (klausnick) wrote in linguaphiles,
klausnick/莫罗佐夫·尼科莱/профан
klausnick
linguaphiles

the cast cover of a general review

"The funeral sermon upon poor Le Fever, wrote out
very fairly, as if from a hasty copy.--I take notice of it the more,
because it seems to have been his favourite composition--It is upon
mortality; and is tied length-ways and cross-ways with a yarn thrum, and
then rolled up and twisted round with a half-sheet of dirty blue paper,
which seems to have been once the cast cover of a general review, which to
this day smells horribly of horse drugs.--Whether these marks of
humiliation were designed,--I something doubt;--because at the end of the
sermon (and not at the beginning of it)--very different from his way of
treating the rest, he had wrote--Bravo!"

The words in italic are obscure. The cast cover here is certainly not the thing which covers a broken arm or leg.
Tags: english
Subscribe

  • Yup, it's an Enya song question

    Okay, let's put it this way... like some 90s children, I grew up listening to Enya. For better or worse, I still totally possess some of her albums,…

  • Mystery advertisement

    I keep passing this car on my way to the supermarket and wondering what the non-English text on the sign says. I'm based in London, UK, so the…

  • Translation for Maybe Japanese?

    Hello linguaphiles! My in-laws recently gifted us with a folding screen, which has a cherry blossom design and some writing in what I'm guessing…

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    default userpic

    Your reply will be screened

    Your IP address will be recorded 

  • 11 comments

  • Yup, it's an Enya song question

    Okay, let's put it this way... like some 90s children, I grew up listening to Enya. For better or worse, I still totally possess some of her albums,…

  • Mystery advertisement

    I keep passing this car on my way to the supermarket and wondering what the non-English text on the sign says. I'm based in London, UK, so the…

  • Translation for Maybe Japanese?

    Hello linguaphiles! My in-laws recently gifted us with a folding screen, which has a cherry blossom design and some writing in what I'm guessing…