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little round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly
marked among the fry: He had a roguish
twinkle in his eye.
1748 The Castle of Indolence, canto1, stanza 69. Scottish poet born in Port Glasgow. He trained as an army schoolmaster but was dismissed from army service in 1862 for alcoholism. He worked in London as a poet, journalist and critic, and published his greatest work The City of Dreadful Night in1874. | ||
