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Note 363 — INDEX OF AUTHORS.

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Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier—white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber—black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber—red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. Christopher Smart: The Trip to Cambridge (on "Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets," vol. vi. p. 185).

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