Category: Poetry
“I think the ‘Rejected Addresses’ by far the best thing of the kind since ‘The Rolliad,’ and wish _you_ had published them. Tell the author ‘I forgive him, were he twenty times over our satirist;’ and think his imitations not at all inferior to the famous ones of Hawkins Browne.”
“I think the ‘Rejected Addresses’ by far the best thing of the kind since ‘The Rolliad,’ and wish _you_ had published them. Tell the author ‘I forgive him, were he twenty times...
2. Chapter 2This was discouraging enough. If the most experienced publishers feared to be out of pocket by the work, it was manifest, _à fortiori_, that its writers ran a risk of being stil...
3. Chapter 3WHEN persons address an audience from the stage, it is usual, either in words or gesture, to say, “Ladies and Gentlemen, your servant.” If I were base enough, mean enough, paltr...
4. Chapter 4As Chaos, which, by heavenly doom, Had slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flash’d upon her eyes— So London’s sons in nightcap woke, In...
5. Chapter 5I’ve heard our front that faces Drury Lane Much criticised; they say ’tis vulgar brick-work, A mimic manufactory of floor-cloth. One of the morning papers wish’d that front Ceme...
6. Chapter 6Interior of a Theatre described.—Pit gradually fills.—The Check-taker.—Pit full.—The Orchestra tuned.—One fiddle rather dilatory.—Is reproved—and repents.—Evolutions of a Playbi...
7. Chapter 7{4a} The east end of St. James’s Palace was destroyed by fire, 21 Jan., 1809. The wardrobe of Lady Charlotte Finch (alluded to in the next line) was burnt in the fire.
8. Chapter 8{56b} Sobriety, &c. The good-humour of the poet upon occasion of this parody has been noticed in the Preface. “It’s all very well for once,” said he afterwards, in comic confide...