English Sketches, From "the Sketch Book,"
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Skryme is accustomed to say, " may go star-gazing, and look for conjunctions in the heavens, but here is a conjunction on the earth, near at home, and under our own eyes, which surpasses all the signs and calculations of astrol- ogers."' Since these portentous weather-cocks have thus laid 38 THE SKETCH BOOK.
their heads together, wonderful events had already occurred.
The good old king, notwithstanding that he had lived eighty- two years, had all at once given Tip the ghost; another king had mo...unted the throne; a royal duke had died suddenly — another, in France, had been murdered; there had been radical meetings in all parts of the kingdom; the bloody scenes at Man- chester; the great plot in Cato Street; — and, above all, the queen had returned to England! All these sinister events are recounted by Mr. Skryme, with a mysterious look, and a dismal shake of the head; and being taken with his drugs, and asso- ciated in the minds of his auditors with stuffed sea-monsters, bottled serpents, and his own visage, which is a title-page of tribulation, they have spread great gloom through the minds of the people of Little Britain.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Skryme is accustomed to say, " may go star-gazing, and look for conjunctions in the heavens, but here is a conjunction on the earth, near at home, and under our own eyes, which surpasses all the signs and calculations of astrol- ogers."' Since these portentous weather-cocks have thus laid 38 THE SKETCH BOOK.
their heads together, wonderful events had already occurred.
The good old king, notwithstanding that he had lived eighty- two years, had all at once given Tip the ghost; another king had mo...unted the throne; a royal duke had died suddenly — another, in France, had been murdered; there had been radical meetings in all parts of the kingdom; the bloody scenes at Man- chester; the great plot in Cato Street; — and, above all, the queen had returned to England! All these sinister events are recounted by Mr. Skryme, with a mysterious look, and a dismal shake of the head; and being taken with his drugs, and asso- ciated in the minds of his auditors with stuffed sea-monsters, bottled serpents, and his own visage, which is a title-page of tribulation, they have spread great gloom through the minds of the people of Little Britain.
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