The Press, Or, Literary Chit-chat: A Satire ...

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Lupton Relfe, 1822 - 132페이지

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128 페이지 - Sir Egerton Brydges, when at home, prints from his private press at Lee Priory, and when abroad edifies the natives of the country he happens to be in with sundry and divers concoctions of his brain. For instance ; — At Geneva he published a work on Political Economy — at Florence a volume of Miscellanies — at Rome, too, he had his printing press — at Naples he published, and I beliere is still publishing and intending to publish a periodical work under the title of Res Literarise.
106 페이지 - Mohawks" has been attributed to Lady Morgan and her husband. I am unwilling to conceive, however, that even Lady M. could write some parts of it of a most unladylike nature; and the frequent employment of similes culled from the " Pharmacopoeia Londinensis,
5 페이지 - Like midnight caitiff round your dwelling prowls, 50 And the closed curtain trembles at his voice, More narrow confines are the general choice. The region of the hearth, which Cowper sung, Is render'd vocal by the human tongue, Gibes and retorts fly round, with playful chat, Perhaps tea, coffee, muffins, and all that. Fancy a room to lay before your eyes, Not large, nor small, but of
119 페이지 - Daring each narrow glen, and stern defile, 100 With, 'neath their arm, portfolios cramm'd with books T' inform our ploughmen, dairy-maids, and cooks, — Sir Egerton, no doubt, keeps these in view, But carries books and printing-presses too. At once the friend of learning and mankind, His happy thoughts are not to us confined ; Ideas concocted in his Priory's shade O'er all benighted Europe are convey'd ; French and Italians, Swiss and Germans, feel Th' enlightening influence of the 'traveler's zeal.
119 페이지 - POCUS. Yes, whilst most authors travel to relate To friends at home what dangers were their fate, Our philanthropic baronet doth roam To spread abroad what he composed at home. HOCUS. Out on the travelling mania that pervades Both wives and husbands, bachelors and ••? When will thy torrent, Exportation, cease, And Britons their own mutton kill in peace ? JOCUS. All-glorious age...
16 페이지 - POCUS. Partly, because the vain and wayward Childe Unbar'd before the world his passions wild, The deep recesses of his breast exposed, And all his follies, griefs, and fears disclosed ; He made himself the hero of his song, The novel plan transfix'd the list'ning throng, 220 Soon he became the common topic — then, Who could neglect the offspring of his pen ? — JOCUS. This was the plan Rousseau pursued to lure The Gauls t' enlist beneath his flag impure.
26 페이지 - HOCUS. Not in the least ; it is a driv'lling tale 380 Without a line of beauty to atone For crowing cocks, or mastiff bitches' moan ; 'Tis arrant nonsense — so are both the scraps Tack'd at the end, purloin'd from broken naps. Who would imagine that the self-same wight Remorse as well as Christabelle could write ? JOCUS, " Tis strange, 'tis passing strange —
24 페이지 - tis a scene a poet to delight, And make him tuneful of his stars in spite ! HOCUS. In yonder modest mansion Wordsworth dwells Framing fresh Waggoners and Peter Bells ; Wordsworth, at once philosopher and child, The sport of every thought however wild. 340 Behold in yon secluded hazel'd glen A wight who stops, proceeds, then stops again ; Approach — a moss obtains his musing care, Anon, his fancy mounts into the air, And in a boat, in lieu of Pegasus, W He takes a voyage, far and perilous, - From...
28 페이지 - Whom Covent Garden once contrived to damn. HOCUS. His Farce you mean : 'tis better than the mass Of flitting dramas that before us pass. 400 His tales are so affected in their style That oft, in lieu of tears, they cause a smile.
120 페이지 - Caution'd his countrymen, and may again. Hobhouse, and Leigh, and Matthews, Mrs. Grahame (»*> The deaf, the dumb, the blind, and eke the lame (•*> Publish their travels — lo ! the passion spreads, And each, delighted, foreign regions treads. Pachas and Viziers, all the turban'd race, The Frenchman bowing with polite grimace, Swarthy Italians, or the darker Copt, Lure us the...

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