... letter a thousand miles for a penny, and buy a week's reading for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce plays as fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on nisepence halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

... the name. If versifiers were synonymous with poets, we should have the latter in abundance. They would be plen- tiful as blackberries-a fact which is abundantly testified by the 'intolerable quantity' of lines which every year ushers into existence. There ...