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 ON FRENCH TASTE.
'Tis laughable to see a Frenchman swell;
Proud of his tragic idol, Pierre Corneille,
Baptiz'd, forsooth, le Grand!
But our fop neighbours see things with strange eyes!
Alas! Sublimity ne'er left her skies,
To take a Frenchman by the hand.
Proud of his tragic idol, Pierre Corneille,
Baptiz'd, forsooth, le Grand!
But our fop neighbours see things with strange eyes!
Alas! Sublimity ne'er left her skies,
To take a Frenchman by the hand.
It is, indeed a very diff'rent dame—
A meretricious, noisy lass, I ween;
A bouncing giantess, with eyes of flame,
And such a daring and Medusa mien!
A meretricious, noisy lass, I ween;
A bouncing giantess, with eyes of flame,
And such a daring and Medusa mien!
Trick'd out in flaunting lace, and stiff brocade,
With cabbage-roses loaded, glaring, vast!
Such is the Frenchman's song-inspiring maid;
The name of this bald Brobdignag, Bombast.
With cabbage-roses loaded, glaring, vast!
Such is the Frenchman's song-inspiring maid;
The name of this bald Brobdignag, Bombast.
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Sublimity's a sweet, majestic fair;
So simple in her form, and speech, and paces;
So elegant her manners and her air—
A Juno dress'd by all the easy graces.
So simple in her form, and speech, and paces;
So elegant her manners and her air—
A Juno dress'd by all the easy graces.
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