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It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr. John, back to "plasters, pills, and ointment boxes," &c. But, for Heaven's sake, young Sangrado, be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics in your practice than you have been in your poetry.

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It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up among us. This school has not, I believe, as yet received any name; but if I may be permitted to have the honour of christening it, it may henceforth be referred to by the designation of The Cockney School.

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Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin –
Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.


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Here lies the peerless paper lord, Lord Peter,
Who broke the laws of God and man, and metre.


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It is an old belief
That on some solemn shore
Beyond the sphere of grief
Dear friends shall meet once more.


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John Gibson Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart
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Born: July 14, 1794
Died: November 25, 1854 (aged 60)
Bio: John Gibson Lockhart was a Scottish writer and editor.
Known for:
  1. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte (1832)
  2. Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1835)
  3. Ancient Spanish ballads
  4. Reginald Dalton (1823)

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