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Compare a single one with any Two that you see , how like a zany It looks ; how poor , inept , inhuman ! Oh , ever while you live , have two , man ; Two , like two legs ; and don ' t be
branding With love of one your understanding . Fancy a door with one provided ; How ludicrous ! one-legg'd ! lop-sided Whereas with two , like tit for tat , ^ v Pediment , cornice , and all that , f
It stands like something worth > looking at , V Or a stout fellow in a cock'd hat . J See our own door-way , at page one ; Therms fitness for a Parthenon ! Two columns , bearing that first story
Of strong and sweet Repository . Will any man who hates a flat style , Or a forc'd , object to that style ? Will Mr Gwilt , or Mr Barry , Or Mr What ' s-his-name ? No , marry . Our front demands them to be stout :
So no pun , pray , on the word gout . Turn but the corner , and look there ; There see our columns mount in air , So smooth , and sweet , and with a smile , Air seems itself to feel the style . No one will say , with wondering brows , As the man did to Carlfcon House . » a * «* va- * - ^» % km- < m >_ r
* m * « , *_ r w «« ^^ , » m . uw v - *^ r ^» r «~ v *> » v - _ r m , a _ . . ^ ^ r ^ s a " Care colonne , die fate quit f - > Nor will the columns , with hum / and ha , C Say " Nbn sappiamo , in verith . " * J A pretty jest , 'faith , and a queer , To ask our columns how they came here !
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Egad , they'd say to such suggestion , "How came you here , that ask the question . "
Double then be your columns , ever : Were single ones in Nature ? Never . ( There ' s nothing like a round assertion ) Antf history holds them in aversion .
All her best columns go by twos ; - *• Witness those pillars of the Jews , Jachin and Boaz , which implied That Love and Pow ' r go side by side ; f And those which Hercules set up , When he sat down in Spain to sup On fame and gratitude ( no dull tray ) And carv'd upon them Neplus ultra ; Meaning , " You can ' t surpass my columns" ;
Words in our favour that speak volumes . Upon the like , deny who can , Goes that most wondrous fabric , man , And on two legs walks noble and steady ; But this we have touch'd upon already . Thus emperors walk ; yea , poets ; yea , My lady B . and lady A . ; Yea ( not to speak it lightly ) queens ; And so must wits in magazines .
In short , look at the common sense O' the case , and frame your judgment thence . So wide are single-column'd pages , The eyes grow tir'd with the long stages ; At each line ' s end you feel perplex'd For the beginning of the next ,
* A jeu d esprit recorded of divers colonnades ; among others , that which screened the late Carlton House . It may be thus translated :- — How came you here , good columns , pray ? ' Faith , my good friend , we cannot say .
Colonne Ebraiche o Misteriose . Due colonne del vestibolo del tempio di Salomone ; Tuna delle quali , a destra , si chiamava Jachin , desiderio ; e 1 ' altra , a sinistra , Book , f orza e vigore , &c . —Dizionario cF Ogni Mitologia , torn . i . p . 468 .
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Doggrel on Double Columns and Large Type * 87
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/15/
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