Scribbleomania Or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon. A Sublime Poem. Edited by Anser Pen-drag-on [i.e. S. W. H. Ireland] |
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Coleridge.
Ablatum mediis opus est incudibus istud.
This work unfinish'd from the anvil came.
This work unfinish'd from the anvil came.
Now Coleridge in school of a Southey I'll note down,
Whose lays on futurity's stream will not float down;
Since ne'er can the labours of one modern scull
The sterling decrees of our fathers annul.
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Our senses would vainly with impotence cram;
For works, long established, such efforts deride;
'Tis a streamlet contending against ocean's tide.
Thus empiric pigmies may prate about straws;
The old code must overthrow all modern laws:
So, Coleridge, take warning, mend lays in due time, sir,
Or the grave will envelop thy form, fame, and rhyme, sir.
However Sir Noodle may prove himself correct in most instances, I cannot altogether agree with his stricture upon Mr. Coleridge's literary acquirements; which have, in many instances, placed him in a respectable point of view. That he has been too much indulged in the new vamped-up school I am free to confess, but I cannot in justice refrain from allowing him those merits to which he is entitled on the score of feeling and sensibility. Advice I allow to be necessary, but the judgment so harshly delivered in the conclusive line of Scribblecumdash I must state to be indecorous, and such as by no means applies to the poetical acquirements of the gentleman above cited.
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