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ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS.

Yes! doff that covering, where Morocco shines,
And hang a calf-skin on those recreant lines.^[1]740

⁠With you, ye Druids! rich in native lead,
Who daily scribble for your daily bread:
With you I war not: Gifford's heavy hand
Has crushed, without remorse, your numerous band.
On "All the Talents" vent your venal spleen;^[2]
Want is your plea, let Pity be your screen.
Let Monodies on Fox regale your crew,

And Melville's Mantle^[3] prove a Blanket too!

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⁠"Doff that lion's hide,
And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs."

Shakespeare, King John.

Lord Carlisle's works, most resplendently bound, form a conspicuous ornament to his book-shelves:—

"The rest is all but [only, MS.] leather and prunella."

"Wrong also—the provocation was not sufficient to justify such acerbity."—B., 1816.
↑ All the Blocks, or an Antidote to "All the Talents," by Flagellum (W. H. Ireland), London, 1807: The Groan of the Talents, or Private Sentiments on Public Occasions, 1807; "Gr—vile Agonistes, A Dramatic Poem, 1807, etc., etc."
↑ "Melville's Mantle," a parody on Elijah's Mantle, a poem. [Elija's Mantle, being verses occasioned by the death of that illustrious statesman, the Right Hon. W. Pitt. Dedicated to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lincoln (1807), was written by James Sayer. Melville's Mantle, being a Parody on the poem entitled "Elijah's Mantle," was published by Budd, 1807. A Monody on the death of the R. H. C. J. Fox, by Richard Payne Knight, was printed for J. Payne, 1806-7. Another "Monody," Lines written on returning from the Funeral of the R. H. C. J. Fox, Friday Oct. 10, 1806, addressed to Lord Holland, was by M. G. Lewis, and there were others.]

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⁠"Doff that lion's hide,
And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs."

Shakespeare, King John.

Lord Carlisle's works, most resplendently bound, form a conspicuous ornament to his book-shelves:—

"The rest is all but [only, MS.] leather and prunella."

"Wrong also—the provocation was not sufficient to justify such acerbity."—B., 1816.

[2] All the Blocks, or an Antidote to "All the Talents," by Flagellum (W. H. Ireland), London, 1807: The Groan of the Talents, or Private Sentiments on Public Occasions, 1807; "Gr—vile Agonistes, A Dramatic Poem, 1807, etc., etc."

[3] "Melville's Mantle," a parody on Elijah's Mantle, a poem. [Elija's Mantle, being verses occasioned by the death of that illustrious statesman, the Right Hon. W. Pitt. Dedicated to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lincoln (1807), was written by James Sayer. Melville's Mantle, being a Parody on the poem entitled "Elijah's Mantle," was published by Budd, 1807. A Monody on the death of the R. H. C. J. Fox, by Richard Payne Knight, was printed for J. Payne, 1806-7. Another "Monody," Lines written on returning from the Funeral of the R. H. C. J. Fox, Friday Oct. 10, 1806, addressed to Lord Holland, was by M. G. Lewis, and there were others.]

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