The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Rhyming in bed,—inspir'd o'er souchong tea,
Soft as the balmy skies of Italy;
To ocean dear, as sea-weeds on the shore,
When tuneful there he bays its milk-white roar,—
Let trashy Cornwall, most sublimely terse,—
Hug the lean triumph of embroidered verse.
Soft as the balmy skies of Italy;
To ocean dear, as sea-weeds on the shore,
When tuneful there he bays its milk-white roar,—
Let trashy Cornwall, most sublimely terse,—
Hug the lean triumph of embroidered verse.
Barry Cornwall (I suppose his own name was not poetical enough,) is at times equally affected, glossy and meaningless with Miss Landon:—we are quite cloyed with his sweet sounds, sweet diminutives, and sweet nothings-at-all. He has a finer ear than ever Handel or Weber had; he can hear the white music of the sea!—and he can write at times uncommonly nonsensical.
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