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For many years fellow of and historical lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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The name of the Delectable Land in one of Heine’s
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The allusion is to a specimen I had been used to hear quoted of the Duke of Wellington’s table-talk in his latter years. He had said that musk-rats were sometimes kept alive in bottles in India. Curate, or other meek dependent: “I presume, your Grace, they are small rats and large bottles.” His Grace: “No, large rats, small bottles; large rats, small bottles; large rats, small bottles.”
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Mr. J. Comyns Carr, at this time editing the English Illustrated Magazine.
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A favourite Skye terrier. Mr. Stevenson was a great lover of dogs.
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The essay so called, suggested by the death of J. W. Ferrier. See
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