Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

CAS. Soon after that period I went upon a visit to a lady in Wetteravia—my Matilda was under her protection. Alighting at a peasant’s cabin, I saw her on a charitable visit, spr...

Line 23.—[JOHN RICHARDSON, M.P. for Newport, Cornwall, and one of the proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre. In the _Rolliad_ he was the author, in Part I., of Nos. iv., x., and xi....

’Twas thine alone, O youth of giant frame, Isosceles![240] that rebel heart to tame! In vain coy Mathesis[241] thy presence flies: Still turn her fond hallucinating[242] eyes; T...

_Scene represents a room at an inn, at Weimar—On one side of the stage the bar-room, with jellies, lemons in nets, syllabubs_, _and part of a cold roast fowl, &c.—On the opposit...

ON MARRIAGE.—Marriage being indissoluble the cause of its being so often unhappy.—Nature’s laws not consulted in this point.—Civilized nations mistaken.—OTAHEITE: Happiness of t...

ALAS! that partial Science should approve 75 The sly RECTANGLE’S[218] too licentious love! For _three_ bright nymphs the wily wizard burns;— _Three_ bright-eyed nymphs requite h...

BEEF. Glorious news, my dear Puddingfield—the Barons are victorious—King John has been defeated—Magna Charta, that venerable immemorial inheritance of Britons, was signed last F...

Stay your rude steps, or e’er your feet invade[197] The Muses’ haunts, ye sons of War and Trade! Nor you, ye legion fiends of Church and Law, Pollute these pages with unhallow’d...

_Scene, a Room in an ordinary Lodging-house at Weimar_—PUDDINGFIELD _and_ BEEFINGTON _discovered sitting at a small deal table, and playing at All-fours—Young_ POTTINGEN, _at an...