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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Moral Writers.
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Moral Writers.
Verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere vero.
Juvenal. To deliver the effusions of the mind, and to venture one's life for the truth.
Juvenal. To deliver the effusions of the mind, and to venture one's life for the truth.
No labour tends more mortal genius to raise
Than ably recording Morality's praise:
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Such good as the husbandman tilling his field;
For, as soil ably cultur'd best ripens the seed,
So virtue's true germs spring from rectitude's creed,
While dictates immoral the wretch leaves forlorn,
For his breast nothing yields save compunction's fell thorn.
The greatest honour is conferred upon the English press, by the production of the multifarious publications wherewith it has teemed, from the pens of both sexes, during the last fifty years; as this topic, however, applies to the following head, as well as that which treats of the expounders of Christianity, I shall, without further comment, dismiss the present note, and proceed to speak of the Lady next adverted to by the poetaster.
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