The Comic magazine, ed. by the editor of 'Figaro in London', 4 vols, Volume 3

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Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett

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Page 51 - ... as a thick-headed dolt at school, but that, we are assured by his relations, is only a mark of his genius, which, having resources of its own," disdained to profit by the labour of others. He went through the usual course of taking a degree at one of the Universities, and, at the age of twenty-one, he was put into the House of Commons, as a representative of a borough that had been in the family upwards of forty years. It was now that the abilities of Mr. Jones were to be brought forth, and...
Page 25 - I never saw any thing but a gull upon it in the whole of my naval experience. I could gain very little information from the crew during the whole of our uncomfortable cruize ; and, as to the man who guided the ship, he was such an austere character, that there was no getting a word out of him.
Page 73 - While rais'd above the city's noise, you spurn Its mean contentions, — feeling you defy them ; Your breast is full of higher thoughts ! ah, learn In time to — "Crack and try before you buy them.
Page 73 - But now the shades of eve come on apace, And in the plain below the sheep-bell tinkles ; Night draws the veil o'er nature's beauteous face, Sol seeks his ocean bed of —

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