"That should he back return, no letter'd rage
Shall drag his common-place book on the stage;
Of Dardan tours let Dilettanti tell,
He'll leave topography to classic Cell,
And, quite content, no more shall interpose,
To stun mankind with poetry or prose."
And yet we have already had, growing out of this "Tour," four volumes of
poetry
, enriched with copious notes in
prose
, selected from his "
common-place book
." The whole interspersed every here and there with the most convincing proofs that instead of being "
quite content
," his Lordship has returned, as he went out, the most discontented and peevish thing that breathes.