Biography for Beginners
Gilbert Chesterton






Biography for Beginners Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms





INTRODUCTORY REMARKS


		The Art of Biography
		Is different from Geography.
		Geography is about Maps,
		But Biography is about Chaps.




SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN


		Sir Christopher Wren
		Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
		"If anybody calls
		"Say I am designing St. Paul's."




MIGUEL DE CERVANTES


		The people of Spain think Cervantes
		Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes:
		An opinion resented most bitterly
		By the people of Italy.




GEORGE BERNARD SHAW


		Mr Bernard Shaw
		Was just setting out for the war,
		When he heard it was a dangerous trade
		And demonstrably underpaid.




SIR HUMPHREY DAVY


		Sir Humphrey Davy
		Abominated gravy.
		He lived in the odium
		Of having discovered Sodium.




J. S. MILL


		John Stuart Mill,
		By a mighty effort of will,
		Overcame his natural bonhomie
		And wrote "Principles of Political Economy."




FRANÇOIS LISZT


		The Abbé Liszt
		Hit the piano with his fist.
		That was the way
		He used to play.




LORD CLIVE


		What I like about Clive
		Is that he is no longer alive.
		There is a great deal to be said
		For being dead.




KING EDWARD THE CONFESSOR


		Edward the Confessor
		Slept under the dresser.
		When that began to pall,
		He slept in the hall.




THE REV. JOHN CLIFFORD M.A., LL.B., D.D


		Dr Clifford
		And I have differed.
		He disapproves of gin:
		I disapprove of sin.




MESSRS CHAPMAN & HALL


		Chapman & Hall
		Swore not at all.
		Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
		And Mr Hall's nay was nay.




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