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All the talents' garland

or, A few rockets let off at a celebrated ministry. Including Elijah's mantle, the Uti Possidetis, and other poems of the same author. By eminent political characters. The third edition, greatly enlarged [by E. A. Barrett]
 

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THE TASTE OF THE TIMES.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE TASTE OF THE TIMES.

Some whim or fancy pleases every age;
For Talents premature 'tis now the rage.
In music how great Handel would have smil'd,
T'have seen whole crowds in raptures with a child.
A Garrick we have had in little Betty,
And now, we're told, we have a Pitt in Petty.
All must allow, since thus it is decreed,
He is a very Petty Pitt indeed.