General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Original Publisher: C. Baldwyn Subjects: English literature Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Medieval Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: P. Tis you are guilty of that cruelty, 115 Which you at once outdo, and blame in me: For while you stifle, and inflame desire, You burn, and starve me in the self-same fire. C. It is not I, but you, that do the hurt, Who wound yourself, and then accuse me for’t: As thieves, th'at rob themselves ‘twixt sun and sun, 121 Make others pay for what themselves have done. Vol. i. s ii SATIRE ON ODE RIDICULOUS IMITATION OF THE FRENCH. Who would not rather get him gone Beyond th’ intolerablest zone; Or steer his passage through those seas, That burn in flames, or those that freeze, Than see one nation go to school,
And learn of another, like a fool ? To study all its tricks and fashions With epidemic affectations; And dare to wear no mode or dress, But what they, in their wisdom, please; 10 As monkies are, by being taught To put on gloves and stockings, caught: 1. 117… would not mtter get Aim gone.] The object of this satire was that extravagant and ridiculous imitation of the French, which prevailed in Charles the Second’s reign, partly owing to the connection and intercourse, which the politics of those times obliged us to have with that nation, and partly to our eager desire of avoiding the formal and precise gravity of the hypocritical age that preceded. It has been observed already, that our poet is not a servile and exact adherer to grammatical …