Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749 – 10 May 1800), French journalist, of an old Huguenot family, was born near Geneva, the son of a Protestant minister.
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“But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.”
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His minstrelsy! O base! This quill,
Which at my mouth with wind I fill,
Puts me in mind, though her I miss,
That still my Syrinx’ lips I kiss.”
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