Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers to Which is Added Porsoniana
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When I first began to publish, I got acquainted with an elderly person named Lawless, '" shopman of Messrs. Cadell and Davies the booksellers. Lawless told me, that he was once walking through Twicken- ham, accompanied by a friend, and a little boy the son of that friend. On the approach of a very dimi- nutive, misshapen, and shabbily-dressed person, the ■* This Lawless (as I was informed by Mr. Maltby, — see notice prefixed to the Pursoniana, in this vol. ) used daily to eat bis dinner in the ...shop, placing a large folio before him so as to conceal his plate. Often, to his great annoyance, just as he was beginning his meal, Gibbon would drop in, and ask a variety of questions about books. One day, Lawless, out of all patience at the interruption, exclaimed from behind the folio, " Mr, Gibbon, I'm at dinner, and can't answer any questions till I have finished it. " — Ed. 26 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE child drew back half-afraid. "Don't be alarmed, " said Lawless; "it is only a poor man.
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