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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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is full of curious information, and worth far more than theshilling it costs. Croker died at his seat at West )\Ioulsey,—where, about his hospitable round table, the men of his time most distinguished for wit and learninghad been wont to assemble,—August 10, 1857, in the seventy-seventhyear of his age. XVH.—TYDUS-POOH-POOH. * Between my knees my forehead was,—My lips, drawn in, said not, Alas !My hair was over in the grass,IMy naked ears heard the day pass. !!! As I occasionally quote from the older poets, I rejoice that, looking atthis queer drawing, a quatrain comes into my head from the pen of amodern poet, Mr. W. j\I. Rossetti; and which the admirers of the new school no doubt consider rhythmical, polished, and pregnant withintelligent meaning. Let it serve as a specimen. To a grateful and discerning public, who can appreciate talent anddo justice to worth, we gladly submit the effigy of our ^L\X OF GENIUS.Yes ; this is Tydus-Pooh-Pooh, the translator of the poetry of the
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