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George Eliot, Dickens, Bulwer, Thackeray, Browning, Mrs.
Browning, Tennyson, and Disraeli [“Lord Beconsfield”], —a fact
which shows that into the restricted stomach of the public-school
pupil is shoveled every year the blood, bone, and viscera of a
gigantic literature, and the same is there digested and disposed of in a
most successful and characteristic and gratifying public-school way.
I have space for but a trifling few of the results:

Lord Byron was the son of an heiress and a drunken man.
Wm. Wordsworth wrote the Barefoot Boy and Imitations on
Immortality.
Gibbon wrote a history of his travels in Italy. This was original.
George Eliot left a wife and children who mourned greatly for his
genius.
George Eliot Miss Mary Evans Mrs. Cross Mrs. Lewis was the greatest
female poet unless George Sands is made an exception of.
Bulwell is considered a good writer.
Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the
first great novelists.
Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied
law, he was raised to the peerage as baron in 1557 and died in
1776.

Here are two or three miscellaneous facts that may be of value, if
taken in moderation:

Homer’s writings are Homer’s Essays Virgil the Aneid and Paradise
lost some people say that these poems were not written by Homer
but by another man of the same name.
A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant’s poems.
Holmes is a very profligate and amusing writer.

When the public-school pupil wrestles with the political features
of the Great Republic, they throw him sometimes:

A bill becomes a law when the President vetos it .
The three departments of the government is the President rules the
world, the governor rules the State, the mayor rules the city.
The first conscientious Congress met in Philadelphia.
The Constitution of the United States was established to ensure
domestic hostility.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again. As follows:

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