THREE Poets, born in different lands and ages, Three different Heroes took to grace their The first, a Buonaparte, fierce to fight; No human character combined more evil, So Milton for his Hero took the Devil. pages: How alter'd is his form! no tail he wears. Such difference in that Personage is seen As Milton by himself perceived, between His tadpole Devil had become a Toad. th' old Dragon wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Ode on the Nativity. M AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH, AFTER THE DECEASE OF DR. BURNEY. THOU Trojan Death! thou worse than Trojan foe To English Greeks, the best of Greeks we know ! In three we boasted; three we had of late, Rare Burney, matchless Porson, and the great ON THE DECEASE OF HORNE TOOKE. HORNE TOOKE is gone-rejoice and sing, Ye Placemen, and ye Tools of a King! He is gone!—then be his faults forgiven, If not for love, for interest' sake ; For should he go to t'other place, Think how he 'll plague your hireling race. |