[The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay Vol. 1 (of 4) by Thomas Babington Macaulay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay Vol. 1 (of 4) PART I 111/114
At New York the travellers will hear of the final defeat and death of the illustrious champion of freedom, Jonathon Higginbottom, and of the elevation of Ebenezer Hogsflesh to the perpetual Presidency.
They will not choose to proceed in a journey which would expose them to the insults of that brutal soldiery, whose cruelty and rapacity will have devastated Mexico and Colombia, and now, at length, enslaved their own country. On their return to England, A.D.2810, the death of the Duke will compel his preceptor to seek for a subsistence by literary labours.
His fame will be raised by many small productions of considerable merit; and he will at last obtain a permanent place in the highest class of writers by his great epic poem. The celebrated work will become, with unexampled rapidity, a popular favourite.
The sale will be so beneficial to the author that, instead of going about the dirty streets on his velocipede, he will be enabled to set up his balloon. The character of this noble poem will be so finely and justly given in the Tombuctoo Review for April 2825, that I cannot refrain from translating the passage.
The author will be our poet's old preceptor, Professor Kissey Kickey. "In pathos, in splendour of language, in sweetness of versification, Mr Quongti has long been considered as unrivalled.
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