The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Could pens eternal last, to name the stock,
Of all the bards that to Parnassus flock—
The sentimental megrims of their brain,
The sonnet, ode, and elegiac strain,—
Proclaim the parents of those ragged rhymes
In Magazines, Gazettes, and all the Times?—
Must my poor Muse decide the snappish claims,
And metre-wonders of ten thousand names?
The young and grey—the whimp'ring, bold or mad,
The flippant, funny, flowery, gay, and sad—
Must all, like Banquo's issue, pass her view,
Each with his work?—Lord help her if they do!
Of all the bards that to Parnassus flock—
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The sonnet, ode, and elegiac strain,—
Proclaim the parents of those ragged rhymes
In Magazines, Gazettes, and all the Times?—
Must my poor Muse decide the snappish claims,
And metre-wonders of ten thousand names?
The young and grey—the whimp'ring, bold or mad,
The flippant, funny, flowery, gay, and sad—
Must all, like Banquo's issue, pass her view,
Each with his work?—Lord help her if they do!
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