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A son of the Governor recited to me the following famous distich, begging me to tell him what it meant:-
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and ...
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The famous distich, too, of an Italian improvisatore, when the Duke of Modena ran away from the comet in the year 1742 or 1743:
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / During the Last Tw...