Why is it quite reasonable that Dickens' later plots should be complicated? Because one of his earlier works was all of a twist (Oliver Twist).
Why have the inhabitants of the city of Boston less need of foreign bards than those of any other city? Because they can always find poetry in their own "Holmes."
Why is a competent lawyer like a bloodstone set in jet? Because he is deep read (red) in Blackstone.
Names of Authors
A slang expression. Dickens.
A brighter and a smarter one. Whittier.
Put a grain 'twixt an ant and a bee, and a well-beloved poet you'll see. Bryant.
It comes from a pig. Bacon.
II. Mark Twain.
A ten-footer whose name begins with fifty. Longfellow.