Category: Poetry
Great Doctor Caustic is a sage Whose merit _gilds_ this _iron_ age, And who deserves, as you’ll discover When you have conn’d this canto over, For grand discoveries and inventions, A dozen peerages and pensions; But, having met with rubs and breakers, From Perkins’ metal misch...
Great Caustic, finding logic sound, The conjuring crew will not confound, Like an indignant hero blusters, The MIGHTY ROYAL COLLEGE musters; Joins to your worships’ powerful pha...
6. Canto i.I have exhibited this couplet at all the assemblages of poetizing brethren in Grub street and St Giles’s, not omitting the inhabitants of the “Wits’ corner, at the Chapter coffe...
2. CANTO I.Great Doctor Caustic is a sage Whose merit _gilds_ this _iron_ age, And who deserves, as you’ll discover When you have conn’d this canto over, For grand discoveries and inventio...
3. CANTO II.The Bard proceeds like one that’s striving To practise Arnall’s art of diving;[50] Presents sublime and strange narrations Of wizards, ghosts, and conjurations; Next towers in D...
4. CANTO III.The poet now, with Discord’s clarion Preludes the war we mean to carry on; And sends abroad a PROCLAMATION Against Perkinean conjuration; Proves that we ought to hang the tracto...
1. Canto 4.--Grand Attack. 149