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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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■^ %. ^--R OPTHE SIAMESE TWINS. EDWARD LYTTON BULWER. * He pre^sd me to dine, and he placed on my head An appropriate garland of popples ;And lo ! from the ceiling t7iere hung by a thread A bale of unsaleable copies. Puff my writings, he cried, or your skull shall be crushd I* That I cannot, I answerd, with honesty flushd. Be your name Dionysius, or Thady, ah !Old Dennis, my boy, though, I were to enjoyBut ojie glass, and one song, still one laugh, loud and long, I should have at your Cyclopaedia I XXVII.—EDWARD LYTTON BULWER. Whatever may be the place allotted to Lord Lytton in the futurehistory of English literature, it must be conceded that, not only in thejudgment of ourselves, but in that of Continental Europe, he stood forthin his own time as the most prominent and typical representative of the Literary Character. This position,—honourable in itself, whether tobe confirmed by the judgment of posterity or not,—he owed to that loveof hterature, and earne

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