STILL must I hear?-shall hoarse *FITZGER. bawl His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, * IMITATION. "Semper ego auditor tantum ? nunquamne reponam "Vexatus toties rauci Theseide Codri ? Juvenal, Satire 1. Mr. FITZGERALD, facetiously termed by COBBETT the "Small Poet," inflicts his annual tribute of verse on the "Literary Fu ot content with writing, he spouts in person after the company mbibed a reasonable quantity of bad port, to enable them to s he operation. B oughts, obedient to my will, parent bird to form a pen, nstrument of little men! 10 doomed to aid the mental throes labour, big with Verse or Prose, phs forsake, and Critics may deride place, and the Author's pride. what Poets dost thou daily raise! is thy use, how small thy praise ! length to be forgotten quite, pages which 'twas thine to write. east, mine own especial pen! e but now assumed again, 20 pircs-our path, though full of thorns, is plain; ooth be the verse, and easy be the strain. When Vice triumphant holds her sov'reign sway, 1 men through life her willing slaves obey; en folly, frequent harbinger of crime, folds her motley store to suit the time; nen Knaves and Fools combined o'er all prevail, en Justice halts, and Right begins to fail, n then the boldest start from public sneers, id of Shame, unknown to other fears, 30 id Hamet BenenGELI promises repose to his pen in the last chapte ON QUIXOTE. Oh! that our voluminous gentry would follow th ple of CID HAMet BenengelI. are follies, e'en for me to chace, at least amusement in the race: en I laugh, I seek no other fame, scrawl, and once upon a time long the town a flood of rhyme, oy freak, unworthy praise or blame; -older children do the same. nt, sure, to see one's name in print; Book, altho' there's nothing in't. 40 50 o matter, GEORGE continues still to write t, ho' now the name is veiled from public sight. oved by the great example I pursue he self-same road, but make my own review: 60 ot seek great JEFFREY's, yet like him will be If-constituted Judge of Poesy. A man must serve his time to every trade ve Censure, Critics all are ready made. ke hackneyed jokes from MILLER, got by rote, ith just enough of learning to misquote ; This ingenuous youth is mentioned more particularly, with hi duction, in another place. In the EDINBURGH REVIEW. |