And now the curtain falls, and the busy
group disperse their several ways, chuckling with delight over the
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All hail! thou first great mimic chief,
Physician to the mind's relief;
Thrice hail! most potent Punch.
Not Momus' self, should he appear,
Could dim the lustre of thy sphere;
So hail! all hail! great Punch.
Bernard Blackmantle.
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THE WESTMINSTER SCHOLAR.
Reminiscences of former Times--Lamentations of Old Crony--
Ancient Sports and Sprees--Modern Im-provements--Hints to
Builders and Buyers--Some Account of the School and its
Worthies--Recollections of old Schoolfellows--Sketches of
Character--The Living and the Dead.
"Fast by, an old but noble fabric stands,
No vulgar work, but raised by princely hands;
Which, grateful to Eliza's memory, pays,
In living monuments, an endless praise."
From a poem by a Westminster Scholar, written during Dr. Friend's
Mastership, in 1699.
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"What say you to a stroll through _Thorney Island_,{1} this morning?"
said old Crony, with whom I had been taking a _dejeune a la fourchette_;
"you have indulged your readers with all the whims and eccentricities
of Eton and of Oxford, and, in common justice, you must not pass by
the _Westminster blacks_.
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