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Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nced age ofeighty-nine, and was buried in Westminsterabbey, where a monument has been erected tohis memory. At the view of his effigies, sirRoger de Coverley is made very characteristicallyto exclaim, Dr. Busby; a great man! hewhipped my grandfather ; a very great man !(Spect. No. 329). We shall conclude thisarticle v/ith Popes lively description of a masterof the Busbeian class, or rather, the Genius ofthe public schools : \.\ hen lo ! a spectre rose, whose index-handHeld forth the virtue of the dreadful wand ;His beaverd brow a birchen garland weais,Dropping with infants blood, and mothers tears.Oer every vein a sliuddring horror runs ;Eton and Winton shake through all their sons.All flesh is humbled ; Westminsters bold raceShrink, and confess the genius of the place :The pale boy-senator yft tingling stands,And holds his bicechcs close with both his hands. ^_ DumiaJ, B. ir. THE LIBRARYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATESTAMPED BELOW. Series 9482
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