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"Corinthian," it appears, was the phrase applied to men of fashion and ton in Plancus's time: they were the brilliant predecessors of the "swell" of the present period brilliant, but somewhat barbarous, it must be confessed.
He treated him with great lenity, so much so as to displease Cicero, who remonstrated with him strongly on his design of setting him at liberty. He was also under some apprehension as to the steadiness of Plancus's loyalty to the senate; but on his writing to that body to assure them of his obedience, Cicero procured a vote of some extraordinary honours to him.
The collectors of George's etchings oh the charming etchings! oh the dear old "German Popular Tales!" the capital "Points of Humor" the delightful "Phrenology" and "Scrap-books," of the good time, OUR time Plancus's in fact! the collectors of the Georgian etchings, we say, have at least a hundred pictures of the artist.