Ye! who in Granta's honours would surpass There CLARKE, still striving piteously "to please," Forgetting doggrel leads not to degrees, A would-be satirist, a hired Buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low Lampoon, 960 * This person, who has lately betrayed the most rapid symptoms of confirmed authorship, is writer of a poem denominated the "Art of Pleasing," as "Lucus a non lucendo," containing little pleasantry, and less poetry. He also acts as monthly stipendiary and collecter of calumnies for the Satirist. If this unfortunate young man would exchange the magazines Oh dark asylum of a Vandal race*! At once the boast of learning, and disgrace; That SMYTHE and HODGSONT scarce redeem thy fame! But where fair Isis rolls purer wave, The partial Muse delighted loves to lave, for the mathematics, and endeavour to take a decent degree in his university, it might eventually prove more serviceable than his present salary. "Into Cambridgeshire the Emperor PROBUS transported a considerable body of Vandals."-GIBBON'S Decline and Fall, pag. 83, vol. 2. There is no reason to doubt the truth of this assertion; the breed is still in high perfection. †This gentleman's name requires no praise: the man who in translation displays unqestionable genius, may well be expected to excel in original composition, of which it is to be hoped we shall soon see a splendid specimen. Where' RICHARDS wakes a genuine poet's fires And modern Britons justly praise their Sires*.970 For me, who thus unasked have dared to tell The host of ideots that infest her age. No just applause her honoured name shall lose, * The " Aboriginal Britons," an excellent poem by RICHARDS. Like these thy strength may sink in ruin hurled, Then, hapless Britain! be thy rulers blest, The senate's oracles, the people's jest! Still hear thy motley orators dispense The flowers of rhetoric, though not of sense, While CANNING's colleagues hate him for his wit, And old dame PORTLAND* fills the place of PITT. Yet once again adieu! ere this the sail That wafts me hence is shivering in the gale; was * A friend of mine being asked why his Grace of P. likened to an old woman? replied, "he supposed it was because he was past bearing." And Afric's coast and Calpe's * adverse height, And Stamboul's † minarets must greet my sight: t Thence shall I stray through beauty's‡ native clime, Where Kaff§ is clad in rocks, and crowned with snows sublime. But should I back return, no lettered rage Calpe is the ancient name of Gibraltar, + Stamboul is the Turkish word for Constantinople. Georgia, remarkable for the beauty of its inhabitants. § Mount Caucasus. || Lord VALENTIA (whose tremendous travels are forthcoming with due decorations, graphical, topographical, and typographical) deposed, on Sir JOHN CARR's unlucky suit that DUBOIS's satire prevented his purchase of the "Stranger in Ireland."- Oh fie, my Lord! has your Lordship no more feeling for a fellow-tourist? but "two of a trade," they say, &c. |