Mirror of Literature,  12 (1828), 124–25.

Dinners

Anon

Genre:

Extract, Drollery

Publications extracted:

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Subjects:

Physiognomy, Phrenology


    The narrator observes that if a 'lank-and-leather-jawed gentleman' at an imagined literary dinner does not 'commit suicide before September' then 'Lavater must have been as great a goose as Gall' (124).



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