The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes |
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Greater than Colon, name renown'dIn famed Discovery's rolls,
Here lies Charles Dickens, who first found
That poor folks may have souls.
But Dickens will not thank us for doing him more than justice. Let it not be forgotten that he had in Bulwer a precursor worthy of him; nor let the class whom that precursor has so highly honoured in being one of them, fail to add four words to the question asked by one of his humble characters: “If little Paul should be scragged?” Who is to blame!
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