Excerpt from George Cruikshank's Table-BookT is customary with some poets to make a formal application to the Muses for an illuminating spark of electric fire to be applied to the brain. I confess that I have a predilection for blazing Walls-end, as a means Of warming my imagination which I prefer doing with the combustibles Of every-day life, rather than by means of any fanciful fuel which the Sacred Nine are supposed to deal in. If my brain is ever illuminated by an electric spark, the bowl Of my meerschaum is the place in which it is deposited, the pipe acting as a conductor, along which ¿ashes of inspiration are conveyed with every whiff, while the smoke curls itself into a variety Of Objects.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.