The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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By plastic critics moulded to a bard,
Politely B--- pipes,—Bathonia's ward;
To feed their ball-room poet's sing-song pride,
Four cringing paper-grubs the task divide;—
For who so fit to tune a love-lit eye,
Empearl a tear, and analyze a sigh,
Or rhyme Dramatic puns, and lisp them too,
With Bath-bred ideots giggling in his view?
Lo! one broad grin is round the circle spread,
While B--- mouths his verse, and shakes his head;
So flimsy, frisky, complaisantly terse,
All swear Beau Nash is born again in verse!
Politely B--- pipes,—Bathonia's ward;
To feed their ball-room poet's sing-song pride,
Four cringing paper-grubs the task divide;—
For who so fit to tune a love-lit eye,
Empearl a tear, and analyze a sigh,
Or rhyme Dramatic puns, and lisp them too,
With Bath-bred ideots giggling in his view?
Lo! one broad grin is round the circle spread,
While B--- mouths his verse, and shakes his head;
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All swear Beau Nash is born again in verse!
At nineteen, Mr. B--- turned out a witty little volume, that became very popular among the Bath Blues. Since then he has written several songs in the twaddle style; and has altogether an inexhaustible genius for supplying the billows with moonbeams, discussing the nature of sighs, and allowing dramatic fêtes to live in his verse “one day more.” It is a pity, however, that he permits the Bath papers to daub his talents with all the preposterous fustian of disgusting flattery:—“The Prince of Harmony and the Soul of Song”!!!—Tom Moore would have turned sick at this.
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