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The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource], Scott and Taylor. (search)
shed his mind by reading, quoth Scott, or even by much converse with the world, having made his home at the frontier and small posts! He had a great "contempt for learning of every kind." In addition to this, oh shocking! if an officer looked like a coxcomb, he was given to calling him so, and would not, to use his oft-repeated phrase, "touch him with a pair of tongs. " An unpardonable offence in the eyes of "Fuss and Feathers." The old man seems to have been as prejudiced and illiberal as Percy, surnamed Hotspur. Winfield, who is familiar with the English classics, and who is one of the first of classics himself, will remember: " I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew. Than one of these same metre-ballad mongers." And again: "But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless with rage, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom, &c, &c,. To be so pester'd with a po