Of delight we were pushed almost locked in each other's arms on to that big pedestal of which I have spoken. "Go it little 'un!" "Give him beans!" yelled the mob who had lost all sight of the origin of the fray and could only see that my opponent was two inches the shorter man. So there my dear Bertie was I within a few hours of my entrance into this town with my top- hat down to my ears my highly professional.
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One of those who bring forward the fatal revolution prophesied by Mr. Robert Carey in his Vaticination on the Death of the celebrated Dr. John Donne: Now thou art gone and thy strict laws will be Too hard for libertines in poetry; Till verse (by thee refined) in this last age Turn ballad rhyme. I had also disputations with him touching his indulging rather a flowing and redundant than a concise and stately diction in his prose exercitations. But notwithstanding these symptoms of inferior taste and a humour of contradicting his betters upon passages of dubious construction in Latin authors I did grievously lament when Peter Pattieson was removed from me by death even as if he had been the offspring of my own loins. And in respect his papers had been left in my care.
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