CLASSIC QUOTATIONS ILLUSTRATED.
(For the Use of Schools.)
Example II.—"Palmam qui meruit ferat."
THE POET AND HIS INTERVIEWERS.
I do not dwell in a back-attic with the windows pasted up with brown paper, neither do I wallow up to my eyes in a litter of manuscript with flue on the carpet and dust on all the furniture. If ye, or the Public, have any such impression, ye are very much mistaken. I may be a literary person and a prose-poet; but I live quite respectably, and have everything handsome about me. Come and see!
Ye will find the doorsteps freshly scoured, and the door-handle brightly polished—which ye will make a note of after ye have rung the bell.