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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

Pindar, Peter (1738-1819)

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IV.

TALES OF THE HOY;

TEARS AND SMILES;

ORSON AND ELLEN;

NEW-OLD BALLADS.

A POETICAL EPISTLE TO BENJAMIN COUNT RUMFORD, Knight of the White Eagle, &c. &c.

THE ISLAND OF INNOCENCE;

THE MIDDLESEX ELECTION;

PITT AND HIS STATUE;

LORD B--- AND HIS MOTIONS.

PROH IMPUDENTIAM! AN ODE.

TEMPORA MUTANTUR.

GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL;

AN INSTRUCTIVE EPISTLE TO JOHN PERRING, ESQ. Lord Mayor of London;

THE HORRORS OF BRIBERY;

ONE MORE PEEP AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY;

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ODES TO THE HEADS.

The Bard addresseth, in plaintive Ditty, the Heads of the Lord knows who—painted by the Lord knows whom, and executed the Lord knows how.

TO A FEMALE HEAD.

TO A MAN'S HEAD.

TO THE SOMBRE FACE OF PARSON CODMAN.

TO THE PORTRAIT OF HELEN.

TO A MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY, LATELY DECEASED.

TO A FEMALE HEAD.

TO ANOTHER FEMALE HEAD.

CONCLUSION.

ANTICIPATION: OR, THE PRIZE ADDRESS;

A SOLEMN SENTIMENTAL, AND REPROBATING EPISTLE TO MRS. CLARKE.

A SECOND SOLEMN, SENTIMENTAL, AND REPROBATING, EPISTLE TO MRS. CLARKE.

CARLTON-HOUSE FETE;

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CONCLUSION.

Now to be serious—O ye men!
(Few eagles, and too many a wren)—
How dare ye fill the room with such pollution?—
Will Justice say, while thus ye hang
So sad and villanous a gang,
Yourselves should not be led to execution?

How cruel to keep Genius out,
To favour fools, and rabble rout;—
Where is the just and independent spirit?—
Ah! dinners and a glass of port
Can favour trash of ev'ry sort,
And thus exclude the works of real merit.

Great George, in all thy wrath arise—
Turn to thy royal dome thine eyes—
And smartly kick each academic tether:—
But should this deed disgrace thy glory,
As sounding not sublime in story,
Bid Sam the porter knock their heads together!

It is a shameful and notorious fact, that dinners, patronage, and favouritism, have been uniformly the means of introducing performances beneath the dignity of criticism, to the exclusion of works deserving the public attention.