The Press, Or, Literary Chit-chat: A Satire ...Lupton Relfe, 1822 - 132 páginas |
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accents admire band bard Bas-Bleusians beheld beneath Blackwood's Magazine brain British Byron certainly cockneys Craigcrook cried crowd dare delights doubt doubtless dunce E'en Edinburgh Review Erin's Erskine eyes fame fancy favour'd fear foes friends Gifford Glenarvon Gold-Stick Guttes du sang haply happy hath written Hazlitt hear HOCUS hope isle JOCUS kilts Lady Lady Morgan Leigh lengthen'd Line Lope de Vega Lord lovely Magazine Mem'ry mighty mind Mirandola muse neath Note 7.-Page Note 8.-Page nought novel o'er passion Perchance POCUS poem published Rapt reader real genius rhimes rival rosy royal sage SATIRE scene Scott shore sighs Sir Walter Scott smile song speech stern strain sundry and divers sung teach tender thee thou thought throng Tis sweet Tom Brown tomes unto Vathek verse Vide Whilst wight wild worthy write yclept Ye gods Zounds
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Página 128 - 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.
Página 106 - 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,
Página 5 - 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
Página 119 - 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.
Página 119 - 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...
Página 16 - 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.
Página 26 - 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 —
Página 24 - 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...
Página 28 - 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.
Página 120 - 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...