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Elegant Art Jokes: FUSELI AND PROF. PORSON.

Fuseli once repeated half-a-dozen sonorous and well sounding lines in Greek, to Prof. Porson, and said,—

“With all your learning now, you cannot tell me who wrote that.”

The Professor, “much renowned in Greek,” confessed his ignorance, and said, “I don’t know him.”

“How the devil should you know him?” chuckled Fuseli, “I made them this moment.”

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