Are you a: Heavy Dragoon?

fuckyeahgilbertandsullivan:

@nathanielthecurious I liked this idea so much I’m making more of them…

I have:

[  ] The pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory 
[  ] Genius of Bismarck devising a plan
[  ] The humour of Fielding
[  ] Coolness of Paget about to trepan
[  ] The science of Jullien, the eminent musico
[  ] Wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Queen Anne
[  ] The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault
[  ] Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man
[  ] The dash of a D’Orsay, divested of quackery
[  ] Narrative powers of Dickens

[  ] Narrative powers of Thackeray 

[  ] The wealth of the Czar
[  ] The family pride of a Spaniard from Aragon
[  ] Force of Mephisto pronouncing a ban
[  ] Swagger of Roderick, heading his clan 
[  ] The keen penetration of Paddington Pollaky
[  ] Grace of an Odalisque on a divan 
[  ] The genius strategic of Caesar or Hannibal 
[  ] Skill of Sir Garnet in thrashing a cannibal 
[  ] Flavour of Hamlet 

And also relevant qualities of (half a point each):

[  ] Victor Emmanuel

[  ] peak-haunting Peveril 
[  ] Thomas Aquinas

[  ] Doctor Sacheverell
[  ] Tupper 

[  ] Tennyson 

[  ] Daniel Defoe
[  ] Anthony Trollope 

[  ] Mister Guizot

[  ] Lord Waterford, reckless and rollicky

[  ] the Stranger
[  ] Manfred (but not very much of him) 
[  ] Beadle of Burlington 

[  ] Richardson’s show 
[  ] Mister Micawber 

[  ] Madame Tussaud 

Scoring:

0-5: ridiculous, preposterous!

6-11:

something like this sort of thing…

12-17: as commonplace a young man as ever I saw

18-22:  a soldier of our Queen

23-28: that popular mystery known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon