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“This magic Volume contains neither a Treatise on Cookery by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, nor a Dissertation on Cash Payments by
an Irish Student, nor Illustrations of the Classics by Deacon Lawrie,
nor a work on Farriery by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
nor a collection of New Waltzes by Mr Wilberforce; but it consists,
risum teneatis, of an Heroic Poem, by a Heavy Dragoon.”
Blackwood's Magazine, No. 23.
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