...barn-door fowl than an eagle, or even a nightingale. It was the old story of — ' The Clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ; ' and in short it was agreed, in order to settle the dispute, that a specimen of the young man's...

...just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls...

...just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much he-mus'd in heer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ?...

...just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rbyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls...

...Poetical Recreations. The author of these very candidly informs us, that he is " A clerk foredoomM his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." Rushton's Poems deserve more than ordinary attention, not only from the melancholy circumstance of...

...just at diuner-time. t Is there a parson, mnch bemus'd in beer, A mandlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls?...

...at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bcmus'd in beer, A maudlm poetess, a rhyming peer, A cl< rk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engro«s ? Is there! who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd...

...instances. VOI.. III. 42 Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls...

...he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, fbredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when...e'er my stars should be So adverse to have fated me And war with those great men of might*. Upon this groaning desk to write, Ye gods! look down awhile,...

...burns, Yet bliss, through each, must centre in the mind. 20 TO MRS. HM BOWDLER. " A clerk, foredoomed his Father's soul to cross, ** Who pens a stanza when he should engross." POPE. — " Prologue to Satires." Too long, dear Aunt, has cold neglect delay'd, What earlier gratitude...