The Works of Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot] ... With a Copious Index. To which is prefixed Some Account of his Life. In Four Volumes |
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ODE IV.
The Lyric Bard commendeth Mr. Gainsborough's Pig—Recommendeth Landscape to the Artist.
And now, O Muse, with song so big,
Turn round to Gainsb'rough's Girl and Pig,
Or Pig and Girl I rather should have said:
The pig in white, I must allow,
Is really a well painted Sow:
I wish to say the same thing of the maid.
Turn round to Gainsb'rough's Girl and Pig,
Or Pig and Girl I rather should have said:
The pig in white, I must allow,
Is really a well painted Sow:
I wish to say the same thing of the maid.
As for poor St. Leger and Prince,
Had I their places I should wince,
Thus to be gibbeted for weeks on high:
Just like your felons after death,
On Bagshot, or on Hounslow Heath,
That force from travellers the pitying sigh.
Had I their places I should wince,
Thus to be gibbeted for weeks on high:
Just like your felons after death,
On Bagshot, or on Hounslow Heath,
That force from travellers the pitying sigh.
Yet Gainsb'rough has great merit too,
Would he his charming fort pursue—
To mind his Landscape have the modest grace—
Yet there, sometimes, are nature's tints despis'd:
I wish them more attended to, and priz'd,
Instead of trump'ry that usurps their place.
Would he his charming fort pursue—
To mind his Landscape have the modest grace—
Yet there, sometimes, are nature's tints despis'd:
I wish them more attended to, and priz'd,
Instead of trump'ry that usurps their place.
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