The Baviad and Mæviad. [Followed by] Proceedings on the trial of Robert Faulder for publishing a libel on John Williams1800 |
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ADMIRED aforesaid Album Anna Matilda ANTHONY PASQUIN applause Arno Baviad Bell breast character Children of Thespis cowards who employ Crusca defamatory libels dicere Dunciad Edwin Erskine fame fancy fate of Hastings Faulder folly fool fustian Garrow genius gentle gentleman Greathead hæc hand head heart Hîc honour horse-leech hour IMITATIONS infamy JOHN HOPPNER JOHN WILLIAMS labours Laura Maria learned friend libels hereinafter mentioned Lowton lyre Mæviad miserable object's abuse Muse name of Anthony name of Pasquin NOTES o'er odes ORACLE paper Parsons Persius PIN-BASKET pity Plaintiff poem poetry poor Pope praise PRINTER'S DEVIL profligate cowards published racter reader ribaldry riff-raff satire sense Somerfield song sonnet soul strains sweet taste thee thing thou thought thro tion TOM FOOL traducing truth Vaughan verse virtue WARREN HASTINGS Weston write written YENDA
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Strona 108 - I WISH I was where Anna lies, For I am sick of lingering here ; And every hour, affection cries, Go and partake her humble bier. I wish I could ! for when she died, I lost my all ; and life has proved, Since that sad hour, a dreary void, A waste unlovely, and unloved.
Strona viii - Florence, took a fancy to while away their time in scribbling high-flown panegyrics upon themselves, and complimentary ' canzonettas' on two or three Italians, who understood too little of the language in which they were written to be disgusted with them. In this there was not much harm, nor, indeed, much good ; but as folly is progressive, they soon wrought themselves into an opinion that they really deserved the fine things which were mutually said and sung of each other.
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Strona ix - In this paper," says Mr. Gifford, in his preface to the Baviad, " were given the earliest specimens of those unqualified and audacious attacks on all private character, which the town first smiled at for their quaintness, then tolerated for their absurdity; and — now that other papers equally wicked and more intelligible have ventured to imitate it — will have to lament to the last hour of British liberty.
Strona 38 - Oh for the good old times ! When all was new, And every hour brought prodigies to view, Our sires in unaffected language told Of streams of amber, and of rocks of gold : Full of their theme, they spurn'd all idle art ; And the plain tale was trusted to the heart.
Strona ix - It was perfectly unintelligible, and, therefore, much read ; it was equally lavish of praise and abuse ; (praise of what appeared in its own columns, and abuse of every thing that appeared elsewhere;) and as its conductors were at once ignorant and conceited, they took upon them to direct the taste of the town, by prefixing a short panegyric to every trifle that came before them.
Strona 79 - And Boswell, aping, with preposterous pride, Johnson's worst frailties, rolls from side to side, His heavy head from hour to hour erects, Affects the fool, and is what he affects.!
Strona 31 - Some love the verse that like Maria's flows. No rubs to stagger, and no sense to pose ; Which read, and read, you raise your eyes in doubt, And gravely wonder — what it is about. These fancy