Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) English illustrator and author
Table Talk" p. 63
Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)
“All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
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