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—Please to observe the effect of a skilfully cooked repetition,
Copied from Homer and Clough and a host of hexameter heroes,—
Nor will we trouble our readers with all the particulars,—pictures,
Writings on walls and the like: but this we will say, that Sir Walter,
G. P. R. James and Lord Lytton must yield him the palm in description.
When he described how a skeleton dove had been found at Pompeii,
Found on a skeleton egg, we all of us wept in a chorus.
Copied from Homer and Clough and a host of hexameter heroes,—
Nor will we trouble our readers with all the particulars,—pictures,
Writings on walls and the like: but this we will say, that Sir Walter,
G. P. R. James and Lord Lytton must yield him the palm in description.
When he described how a skeleton dove had been found at Pompeii,
Found on a skeleton egg, we all of us wept in a chorus.
When he had done, and the weepers had wept, and the stamping was over,
Pashley arose, and he made some remarks in the usual fashion;
"This was an excellent paper, he seldom had heard such a good one,
"Yet there was one little thing he should like to make just one remark on,
"One little point where he did not agree with the reader's opinion,
"One little question on which Mr Smith should have scarcely been silent":
Several more little points, and several more little questions,
Pashley arose, and he made some remarks in the usual fashion;
"This was an excellent paper, he seldom had heard such a good one,
"Yet there was one little thing he should like to make just one remark on,
"One little point where he did not agree with the reader's opinion,
"One little question on which Mr Smith should have scarcely been silent":
Several more little points, and several more little questions,
