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The Age Reviewed

A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery]
Montgomery, Robert (1807-1855)

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INTRODUCTORY DIALOGUE.
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THE AGE REVIEWED.
 I. 
PART I.
 II. 
PART II.
  
THE RUNAWAYS.

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E---, why leave the music of the gun,
Why drop the soldier, to embrace a Nun?
Alas! far better in her cloisters kept,
Than to be maul'd, and hiss'd, and die unwept!
Last, “Humbug” came—an image of his own,
And so, sleek E--- closed his mawkish tone.
 

Mr. E--- is a very respectable gentleman in the army, a captain. He published “The Nun,” that Rowe and Waller persuaded J--- to puff, and then “Humbug,” that few read beside the printer and the author.

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