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Intensos rigidam in frontem ascendere canos Passus erat Lucan –a bristly bore. Translation “LET us hurry to the walls,” said Abel–Phittim to Buzi–Ben–Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred and forty–one– “let us hasten to the ramparts adjoining the [...]

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Lionizing

February 6, 2009 | Comments | Humorous Tales

-all people went Upon their ten toes in wild wondernment. Bishop Hall’s Satires. I AM, that is to say I was, a great man, but I am neither the author of Junius nor the man in the mask, for my name, I believe, is Robert Jones, and I was born somewhere in the city of [...]

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And stepped at once into a cooler clime. Cowper KEATS fell by a criticism. Who was it died of “The Andromache”? [1] Ignoble souls!– De L’Omelette perished of an ortolan. L’histoire en est breve. Assist me, Spirit of Apicius! [1]Montfleury. The author of the Parnasse Reforme makes him thus speak in Hades:– “L’homme donc qui [...]

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