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And have to run back all the way To find it , and keep saying " Eh ?" Now double ones require but glances ; From line to line the sweet eye dances , Without a strain , or the least trouble , And thus th' enjoyment ' s truly double , Taking your meaning and your
thinking , As easily as lovers , winking . Besides , meanwhile it has an eye to The other column it runs nigh to ; Which doubly doubles the enjoyment , By certainty of more employment ; Just like that terrible Greek , who
reckon'd , While courting one love , on a second ; Or as your gourmand , dining pleasantly , Says , " I'll attack that pigeon presently . "
So much for columns . Now for type . What soul , of any judgment ripe , Or wise by dint of good intentions , But must exult in its dimensions ? What good heart swell not at a size So very good for good old eyes ? Nay , good for eyes too not grown
old , But tried by labours manifold , And glad not to be forcM to take To spectacles and vision-ache ? Young eyes , of course , can find no fault with it ; And babes that learn to spell , won't halt with it :
So that , in fact , the only pages To suit all eyes and suit all ages , And fill the whole earth ' s visual powers With tears of transport , will be ours ! Good heav'ns ! what an , amazing glory ! Unknown in periodic story !
We knew once a shrewd speculator , Young withal , and fond of pater , Who in the course of a right breeding Had got such filial views of reading ,
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That he projected an old men ' s Newspaper , to be call'd—The Lens ; That is to say , a glass to read it ; Because the print was not to need it ! ( We think we see old Munden
kneading The word , in his intensest reading , And counting it a gain , exceeding ) . Well , here's a Lens in all its glory , The type of the Repository
;—A glass , without a glass ' s need ;—A print , that cries to all "Come , read !" How pleasant to reverse , for once , The cares that patronise good sons , And give good sons occasion rather To filiatronize their father !
There's a strange tale of an old sire , Who screaming every moment higher , Came running from a house , or rather Hobbling , and follow'd by his father , Who was belabouring him , because Forgetful of all filial laws , " Th' ungracious boy , " like a
drawcan r , Had laid a stick upon his grandsire I ! Observe our sweet Repository , How 'twill reverse this horrid story . For sure as we see future ages Rise , like May-mornings , o ' er our
pages , We see full many a grateful sire , Old as that grandson , but all fire , Come smiling from his home , and telling The neighbours round about the
dwelling , How he had left , with eyes all glistening , His father to his grandsire listening , Who taking up our magazine , And putting his white locks serene Pleasantly back , and looking proud , Read it , upon the spot , out loud !
What need to add another syllable ? Hearts , that could stand this , are unkillable .
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88 Doggrel on Double Columns and Large Type .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/16/
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