The Illiberal! Verse and Prose from the North!! ... Dedicated to my Lord Byron in the South!! N.B. To be continued occasionally!! viz. as a supplement to each number of The Liberal [by William Gifford] |
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“Let such forego the Poet's sacred name,
“Who wreck their brains for lucre, not for fame:
“Low may they sink to merited contempt,
“And scorn remunerate the mean attempt!
“Such be their meed, such still the just reward,
“Of prostituted Muse and hireling Bard.”
“Who wreck their brains for lucre, not for fame:
“Low may they sink to merited contempt,
“And scorn remunerate the mean attempt!
“Such be their meed, such still the just reward,
“Of prostituted Muse and hireling Bard.”
Byron.
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