The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 358, February 28, 1829 by Various
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_Evening._--The time between our sun-set and sun-rise.
_Night._---The time between our sun-rise and noon. _Domestic._--An epithet applied to cats, dogs, and other tame animals, keeping at home. _Reflection._--The person viewed in a looking-glass. _Tenderness._--A property belonging to meat long kept. _An Undress._--A thick covering of garments. _A Treasure._--A lady's maid, skilful in the mysteries of building up heads, and pulling down characters; ingenious in the construction of caps, capes, and scandal, and judicious in the application of paint and flattery; also, a footman, who knows, at a single glance, what visiters to admit to the presence of his mistress, and whom to refuse. _Immortality_.--An imaginary privilege of living for ever, conferred upon heroes, poets, and patriots. _Taste_.--The art of discerning the precise shades of difference constituting a bad or well dressed man, woman, or dinner. _Tact_.--The art of wheedling a rich old relation, winning an heiress, or dismissing duns with the payment of fair promises. _Album_.--A ledger kept by ladies for the entry of compliments, in rhyme, paid _on demand_ to their beautiful hair, complexions fair, the dimpled |
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