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On the Materials Necessary for His Life of Napoleon
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WHEN with Poetry dealing,
Room enough in a shieling:
Neither cabin nor hovel
Too small for a novel:
Though my back I should rub
On Diogenes' tub,
How my fancy could prance
In a dance of romance!
But my house I must swap
With some Brobdingnag chap,
Ere I grapple, God bless me! with
Emperor Nap.
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Scott, Walter. “On the Materials Necessary for His Life of Napoleon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/105/.
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Scott, Walter. “On the Materials Necessary for His Life of Napoleon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/105/.
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