This is the book of the lamentations of the poet MacGonagall [sic] portraying in his own unapproachable style his birth and parentage, early struggles, miraculous and hairbreadth escapes, with a graphic and characteristic account setting forth how, by his inspired genius and indomitable pluck, he passed from penury and persecution through a knighthood into an immortality of fame

"This is the book of the lamentations of the poet MacGonagall [sic] portraying in his own unapproachable style his birth and parentage, early struggles, miraculous and hairbreadth escapes, with a graphic and characteristic account setting forth how, by his inspired genius and indomitable pluck, he passed from penury and persecution through a knighthood into an immortality of fame"@en
"This is the book of the lamentations of the poet Macgonagall [sic] : portraying in his own unapproachable style his birth and parentage, early struggles, miraculous and hairbreadth escapes, with a graphic and characteristic account setting forth how, by his inspired genius and indomitable pluck, he passed from penury and persecution through a knighthood into an immortality of fame"
"This is the book of the lamentations of the poet Macgonagall : portraying in his own unapproachable style his birth and parentage, early struggles, miraculous and hairbreadth escapes, with a graphic and characteristic account setting forth how, by his inspired genius and indomitable pluck, he passed from penury and persecution through a knighthood into an immortality of fame"@en