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Published in 1825, this collection of twenty-five sketches of famous or otherwise notable men of the time ranged widely across the political and artistic spectrum and included such subjects as Jeremy Bentham, Lord Byron, and his acquaintances William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, well known to posterity, as well as others since forgotten.
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