...something like it in Othello. Puff. Gad ! now you put me in mind on't, I believe there is ; but that 's of no consequence. All that can be said is, that two...people happened to hit on the same thought — and Shakspeare made use of it first, that 'a all." And so it is with the author of The Foster Brothers...

...beauties of those two obscure and unknown authors. For it is in vain to say, with the ingenious Mr. Puff, that " two people happened to hit on the same thought, — and Shakespeare made use of it first, that 's all." Let us turn to " Gaule et France" (Paris, 1833 ; or, better still, a later edition with...