. Thackerayana;. 62 THA CKERA YANA. orator? Let us hide our heads, and shut up the page. Thelists came out; and a dreadful rumour ran through the Universitythat Pendennis of Boniface was plucked. His pencil would seem to have been a recreation of Thack-erays college days as well as of his later career. His first effortsin etching on copper were probably produced about the period ofwhich we treat; the subjects of nearly all of these plates, noneof which, we believe, were ever published, were evidently sug-gested by incidents in the career of an undergraduate. The margins and fly-leaves of a cop
. Thackerayana;. 62 THA CKERA YANA. orator? Let us hide our heads, and shut up the page. Thelists came out; and a dreadful rumour ran through the Universitythat Pendennis of Boniface was plucked. His pencil would seem to have been a recreation of Thack-erays college days as well as of his later career. His first effortsin etching on copper were probably produced about the period ofwhich we treat; the subjects of nearly all of these plates, noneof which, we believe, were ever published, were evidently sug-gested by incidents in the career of an undergraduate. The margins and fly-leaves of a copy of Ovids Opera Omnia,one of Blacks editions of the Classics (1825), offer various whim-sical illustrations of certain portions of the poems; we incline tothe impression, however, that although some of these parodiesmay be referred to Thackerays college days, to others must beassigned a considerably later date. P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia.
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