Copy 1, Volume 3

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Whoever he be/’ says Father 0‘Faggot, “ he is an audacious heretic/' “ A school¬ master, by his learning/’ says Dr. Fullbot- tom Wigsby. The Bishop would take him for a Divine, if there were not sometimes a degree of levity in the book, which though always innocent, is not altogether consistent with the gown. Sir Fingerfee Dolittle discovers evident marks of the medical profession. “ He has manifestly been a traveller ” says the Ge¬ neral, u and lived in the World.” The man of letters says it would not surprize him if it were the work of a learned Jew. Mr. Dull- man sees nothing in the book to excite the smallest curiosity; he really does not understand it, and doubts whether the Author himself knew what he would be at. Mr. McDry de¬ clares, with a harsh Scotch accent, “ Its just parfit nonsense.”