Henry Duff Traill, biographer and satirist of Grant Allen’s The British Barbarians, was a worthy forebear of Monty Python.
Michael Main
It was a case of the angels tumbling to the daughters of men. He saw at the first sight that she was a woman to be desired, a soul high-throned, very calm and dignified, yet scrumptious withal. Like the angels, he tumbled to her, and, falling from so great a height, was instantly mashed.

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  1. The Barbarous Britishers—A Tip-Top Novel by H. D. Traill (John Lane, Bodley Head, 1896).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by H. D. Traill