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Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries (1880)

Grego, Joseph, 1843-1908, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 386

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y surrounded by the rascals, who enquired what I would give to save my baggage from examination. " Nothing ! nothing ! " cried I, in a tone that would have scared the nymphs of the Rhine. " Nothing ?" re-bellowed the incorruptible agents of the Custom House. "Nothing!" I re- iterated. " I never… … SEARCHED BY DOUANIERS ON THE FRENCH FRONTIERS. ' Indeed, a small bribe would have prevented all this, but I was too much out of temper to submit to give alms to these beggars who had so rudely dis- turbed my meditations ; for this reason my obstinacy — why should I not call the child by its right…

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · English wit and humor, Pictorial

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