The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Alack for P---!
—kingly minstrel he,
That sang, yet had no supper for his fee!
Slunk back disgusted from th' Aonian scene,
To mangle prose, and scribble out his spleen:—
Convinced melodious lumber will not sell!
Mind, P---, damn provincial poets well:—
Eject thy slaver where the slaver's paid,
And hiss for malice all the rhyming trade.
That sang, yet had no supper for his fee!
Slunk back disgusted from th' Aonian scene,
To mangle prose, and scribble out his spleen:—
Convinced melodious lumber will not sell!
Mind, P---, damn provincial poets well:—
Eject thy slaver where the slaver's paid,
And hiss for malice all the rhyming trade.
Since the first edition of this work, Mr. P--- has published a work under the title of “A Tale of a Modern Genius,” in which his sorrows and struggles are depicted with great pathos, and cannot fail to awaken the reader's sympathy:—Mr. Jerdan's review of it was as honourable to himself as it was to the author. After all, P--- is a man of very considerable talent, and soars high above a host of poetasters, whose fame has been the result of auspicious patronage among the critics, rather than that of sterling merit.
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