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The portfolio : an artistic periodical (1870)

Whistler, James McNeill · London : Seeley,Jackson and Halliday · leaf 209

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ust, An opposite case is that of Dr. Stratford-on- Avon. Presented with a monumental bust. Johnson, who, though he is buried here, has a The poet’s fate is here in emblem shown : monument in St. Paul’s. The busts, set simply on He asked for bread, and he received a stone.’ brackets, and not forming… … Dean Stanley wrote very little in verse, but his prose is more poetical than much _con- gomery’ set up the monuments of Drayton and temporary ‘poetry, and has a singular sweetness Spenser; and John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, and a charm which cannot be defined. I well re- of whom we shall see…

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