| « M E N U » |
»
|
| » Ktoś, kto mówi, że nie zna się na sztuce, źle zna samego siebie. | | » Alexander Meg - Tajemnica opactwa Steepwood 13 - Honor Rushforda, Henrieta 3, Tajemnica opactwa Steepwood | | » Alexander Hamilton Young Statesman (Young Patriots) - Helen Boyd Higgins, Ebooks (various), Biography Mega Pack(2) | | » Aleksander Dumas - Dartagnan, Literatura, Dumas Alexander | | » Alexander Hawke 03 - Lewiatan - Bell Ted, E-BOOK - różne do przejrzenia, E-book Nowe hasło 123 | | » Alexander Meg - Kłopoty lorda Marcusa, ebooki Różne-klasyka,młodzieżowe,bajki, ebooki Obyczajowe i Romanse | | » Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers - Twenty Years After, books, e-books | | » Aleksander Dumas - Jozef Balsamo, Literatura, Dumas Alexander | | » Alexander McCall Smith - Kobieca agencja detektywistyczna nr1(1), e-books, e-książki, ksiązki, , .-y | | » Aleksander Dumas - Kawaler de Maison-Rouge, Literatura, Dumas Alexander | | » Alexandra.Ivy.-.Straznicy.Wiecznosci.Tom.6.-.Drapiezna.ciemnosc.(P2PNet.pl), !!!!!!! NOWE !!!!!!!!!(hasło=1234) |
zanotowane.pldoc.pisz.plpdf.pisz.plefriends.pev.pl
|
|
|
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
A BIRTHDAY ODE
1
ALEXANDRA
A BIRTHDAY ODE
suggested by A
BBEY
’
S
masterpiece in the Academy of 1904
BEING THE WATKIN TOWER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
(vice Kubla Khan and Hyperion retired hurt)
THE
UNFINISHED OR MUTILATED (OR BOTH)
MANUSCRIPT
of Mr ALFRED AUSTIN, Mr OWEN SEAMAN, or Mr A.N. OTHER
rescued from the flames
AND
copied fair, transcribed, edited, annotated, arranged, printed, published
BY
OPHELIA COX (
NÉE
M
c
HUNT)
AND
DIAPER
OF
THE
Woman’s Monthly
SHANGHAI
1905
Five Dollars
1
2
ALEXANDRA
“
Alexandra
. (A short poem printed in Paris about 1909. The whole stock is
said to have been destroyed by H.M. Customs on the grounds of obscenity
and
lèse majesté
.)”
— Fuller’s Bibliography
q
This pamphlet is published privately for Thelemites and other friends.
2
A BIRTHDAY ODE
3
3
4
ALEXANDRA
EDITORIAL NOTE
Pleesm! said my [Diaper’s, not Mrs Cox’s] sloppy slavey one brilliant No-
vember morning of last year, as the orangegold clouds of deliciously per-
fumed mist stole, in spite of the
Eighth
commandment, down my chimney in
Fleet Street; [of course Diaper does not live in a chimney: she has a deevie
flat there and the flat has a chimney, two chimneys, in fact, O.C.] myav
thister litafir?
Woman! I replied sternly, whence came it? My practised eye had already
detected the indescribable cachet of a treasure trove —
bene trovato, sin non
veri similitudo!
as the immortal Mantuan bardic anarch hath it — ah! dear,
dear
old Dante! — Dunnom! — Oyussm! with a vivid blush through her
smuts (Euphemia knows that she cannot hope to deceive me. What is my
secret? A simple one: I always believe the worst: once in a thousand times I
may be wrong, and it is only the next worst, but no matter.)
Without prolonging the agony, I may say that it shortly transpired that
Euphemia Bugg — such is her name — has for years been the adored (Pla-
tonic if not Aristotelian) mistress of a distinguished littérateur, whom I have
been able with difficulty (the maid is modest, as one would expect from the
No 1 belle dame of either of these cicisbeos), with one of the gentlemen
whose name is on our title-page. The student of style will be able to make his
or her choice.
All we care about is that he or she should pay his or her money.
It is at least certainly not a posthumous work of Walter Pater or John
Addington Symonds: only a crapulous mountebank would credit W.B. Yeats
or Robert Bridges with it. The only question is: did not perhaps the late Lord
Tennyson foresee events, and leave it to be published when the right time
came? But in this case, how account for Euphemia’s possession of the dainty
thing? Anyway, it’s not Tennyson: don’t worry: I was only teasing.
She had originally picked up the unfinished M.S. to use as curl-papers. It
was indeed written, as will be obvious from the style, on sheets of thinnest,
softest (and I believe sterilised) paper of a delicate and pleasing pale canary
colour, mullioned at the shorter edges like a postage stamp.
These she had placed on my mantelpiece for pipe-spills, and forgotten
about them.
It is my pride and privilege through my old and esteemed consœur, as I
suppose I may say for the lady of confrère, to give the providentially rescued
masterpiece; alas! too incomplete!! to the World of Society, though even the
humblest may enjoy (A navvy, when they were repairing the street, whom I
4
A BIRTHDAY ODE
5
asked up to taste my delicious T. — I think the abbreviation is so clever,
don’t you? — and to whom I had read it, said: “B...y good, miss, b...y good”.
A simple heartfelt tribute from the People).
Alas! too incomplete. But something at least is saved, — honour, which if
you remember was all Sir George got out of King Francis’ great lion at the
battle of Pavium — you have read Mrs Browning’s scrumptious poemlet, of
course.
“Diaper” will at least avoid the Infernum proscribed for John Stuart Mill,
Newton’s dog, and Mr Warburton’s housemaid.
Nunquam plaudite!
q
5
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
zanotowane.pldoc.pisz.plpdf.pisz.plhot-wife.htw.pl
|
|
| Cytat |
Dobry przykład - połowa kazania. Adalberg
I ty, Brutusie, przeciwko mnie?! (Et tu, Brute, contra me?! ) Cezar (Caius Iulius Caesar, ok. 101 - 44 p. n. e)
Do polowania na pchły i męża nie trzeba mieć karty myśliwskiej. Zygmunt Fijas
W ciepłym klimacie najłatwiej wyrastają zimni dranie.
Gdybym tylko wiedział, powinienem był zostać zegarmistrzem. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) komentując swoją rolę w skonstruowaniu bomby atomowej
|
|
