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Mop becomes a personage. -- Much thought is bestowed on the verbal dignities, without which a personage would become a mop. -- The importance of names is apparent in all history. -- If Augustus had called himself king, Rome would have risen against him as a Tarquin; so he remained a simple equestrian, and modestly called himself Imperator. -- Mop chooses his own title in a most mysterious manner, and ceases to be Mop.
"The first noticeable defect in your name of Mop," said Gentleman Waife, "is, as you yourself denote, the want of elongation. Monosyllables are not imposing, and in striking compositions their meaning is elevated by periphrasis; that is to say, Sophy, that what before was a short truth, an elegant author elaborates into a long stretch."