The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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In one fat tome of antiquarian dust,
With bellowing epithet, and pause august,—
Thomsonian C--- bemoans along
“Lovely Devonia, land of flowers and song:”
In blank-verse, pleas'd to rummage out the moor,
And sing us all that Thomson sang before!
So much of shiv'ring snow, poetic hail,
Romantic tempest, and the piercing gale,—
The bard himself, more chilly than the spot,—
No wonder “Dartmoor” met so cold a lot!
With bellowing epithet, and pause august,—
Thomsonian C--- bemoans along
“Lovely Devonia, land of flowers and song:”
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And sing us all that Thomson sang before!
So much of shiv'ring snow, poetic hail,
Romantic tempest, and the piercing gale,—
The bard himself, more chilly than the spot,—
No wonder “Dartmoor” met so cold a lot!
Mr. C---'s “Dartmoor” met with great indulgence: the poem was certainly chaste, and the versification (if it had been not quite so servile an imitation of Thomson), very creditable; but it was replete with monotony, and even the best parts and sentiments have been harped upon by all the poets of the last century.
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