Business always falls off in the winter.

It has been said of Mr. [Welby] Pugin that he patronises bad drawing, and now we perceive that he patronises very queer perspective, and very bad colouring also; […] Could we fancy that the mode of representation adopted by the latter [Pugin] were so with the intention of scarecrowing people away from those drawings, there might be some policy in it; […]

The red dust of Tanguieta rolling and roostertailing behind us.

[A] minor actor or supernumerary often has a better opportunity to watch great actors than the great actors themselves.