DR. J. L. CAMPBELL.
If you're anxious for to shine In the wealthy patron line, As a man of culture rare, Gret your name on big committees, Where neither worth nor wit is. You must blush at your own praises, And talk in flowery phrases Of science and high arts. The meaning does not matter, If it's only idle chatter — It will please the swell jam-tarts. And everyone will say, As your walk you mighty way, "If this jam-tart expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what particularly gooseberry-jam this real jam tart must be."
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Observer, Volume 3, Issue 74, 11 February 1882, Page 340
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97DR. J. L. CAMPBELL. Observer, Volume 3, Issue 74, 11 February 1882, Page 340
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