The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Canning Comprising the Whole of his Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems |
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EPIGRAM.
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THE RIVALS.
On the Publications of the Microcosm, a periodical paper by the Students of Eton College, about the year 1790, a similar work was brought out by the Gentlemen of Harrow on the Hill. The latter was adorned with a Frontispiece, representing the two publications suspended in a balance, the former of which is made to “kick the beam.” This invidious allegory occasioned the following Epigram.
Ye wits, of Eton jealous:
Behold! your rivals soar in air,
And ye are heavy-fellows!
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