Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Wassail-Bowl, Vol. 2 of 2
We have waited for five minutes in an agony of ex pectation, and we are not sensible of any unusual inspira tion. No dense clouds of aromatic vapour, rolling in delicious and enervating volumes, have filled the room neither has the carpet opened, the walls divided, or the ceiling vanished, in allowing any lovely spirit, whose silk ?eshings move in pliant grace beneath the transparent undulations of her book-muslin tunic, to visit our mundane, or rather our aerial apartment. We perceive that we are, as usual, left to our own re sources; with the re?ection on the chilling truth, that virtuous woodcutters and youngest princes are the only persons who, upon nursery authority, appear to have ever received morning calls or mental assistance from the feminine children of the air.
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