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OR , THE PRAISE OP THOSE PILLARS OP OUR STATE , ANI > ITS CLEAR EXPOSITOR .
Bfc present , j-e home Truths and Graces , That throw a charm on commonplaces , And make a street or an old door
Look as it never look'd before , Kay , doggrePs very self refine Into a bark not quite canine ( Bather , a voice that once those fairies Took delight in , call'd the Lares ; Fire-side gods , that used to sit
Loving jolly dogs and wit ;)* For with a truth on our own part , Which , though it frisketh , is at heart The solemnest of all the solemns , We sing , imprimis , Double Columns ; And secondly , our noble Type , Beauteous as Raphael , clear as Cuyp .
Double Columns , in all places , Are always cause of double graces ; They grace one ' s front , and grace one ' s wings , And do all sorts of graceful things , Making a welcome fit for queens ; But most of all in magazines . Look at the fact . All monthly publications that have been column'd
doubly , Have always hit the public fancy Better , and with more poignancy Than your platter-fac'd , broad pages Witness things that liv'd for ages , — London Magazines * and Towns
And Countrys , of charade renowns ; The old Monthly , still surviving Though with single life now striving ; And the old Gentleman ' s ( why also Should he change , and risque a fall so ?)
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Truly old gentleman was he , And liv'd to hail the century , Although his diet was no better Than an old tombstone or dead letter
Then look at Blackwood , look at JFraser ; To them and their sales what d ' ye say , Sir ? Tories , I own ; the more ' s the pity ; But double-column'd , and therefore
witty : For columns ( quoth th' Horatian fiddling ) Don ' t permit people to be middling , f The Dublin University Might also spell his name with < y , —
With o and g , and call himself The Doubling , —therefore fit for shelf ; A clever dog ; though he , too , beats His Dublin drum with Toryous heats .
Tait , lastly , hath his columns double , Though he began ( which gave him trouble ) With single ones . I warn'd him of it , And now , you see , he owns me prophet . Lucky for Tait;—because I prophesied
Also , that wealth would thus be ofhis-side . I only wish his columns were of Narrower edifice ; since thereof Greater snugness comes , and easiness Of reading , which is half the business . Oh , nothing like your double columns ! Notions of single ones are all hums .
* The Lares , or ancient Gods of the hearth , had figures of dogs at their feet . j- ,, „ Medtocribus esse poetis Non di , non homines , non concessere columnai . —Ho a . For the strictly classical use of the word «« fiddling ' in this place , vide innumerable places in the ancient poets . Truly did Cicero observe , " Discebant fidibus antiqui ;"—the ancients learnt the fiddle . Horace repeatedly mentions the one with which he accompanied his own versei .
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DOGGREL ON DOUBLE COLUMNS AND LARGE TYPE ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/14/
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