Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Biography for Beginners (1905)

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Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote "Principles of Political Economy."

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Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St Paul's.'

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

The only occasion when Comte
Is known to have romped
Was when the multitude roared 'Vive
La Philosophie Positive!'

Of Auguste Comte

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

It was a weakness of Voltaire's
To forget to say his prayers,
And one which to his shame
He never overcame.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Professor Dewar
Is a better man than you are,
None of you asses
Can condense gases.

Of James Dewar

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