Nodosaurs are ankylosaurid dinosaurs: armoured herbivorous reptiles that look like the love-child of a rhino and an army tank.

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VVho can impair thee, mighty King, or bound / Thy Empire? eaſily the proud attempt / Of Spirits apoſtat and thir Counſels vaine / Thou haſt repeld, vvhile impiouſly they thought / Thee to diminiſh, and from thee vvithdravv / The number of thy vvorſhippers.

Had we any ground of suspicion to stand on, that it was written by a person we dislike, or that dislikes us, we surely need not say how pleasant it would be to tear it pagemeal, and fling it in the author's face.