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ANACREONTICS.
There were none more æsthetical than Hallam or than Ellis,[1]
'Tis thus, the logical may think to obviate all strictures,
Our Johnston brews the best of drink, and buys the best of pictures.
When Noah safely reached dry ground, he couldn't bear a minute
To drink the flood that sinners drowned, with all the sinners in it;
So, making for his weary crew a curious transformation,
- ↑ Two good men and true, who have "gone to the majority" (abierunt ad plures). Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam was the second son of the historian; Robert Leslie Ellis, senior wrangler of his year, and one of the editors of Bacon. They were both worthy disciples of Brillat-Savarin, and Ellis had, moreover, a most un-English dexterity in dress.
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