. Nor is there any harm in Turkish tales, nor wonderful ditties, of ghosts and hobgoblins. We cannot say so much for all Mr. Moore's productions, admired as he is by Lord Byron. In short, the whole galaxy of minor poets, Lords Nugent and Byron, with Messrs. Rogers, Lewis, and Moore, would do well to keep to rhyme, and not presume to meddle with politics, for which they seem mighty little qualified. We must repeat, that it is innocent to write tales and travels in verse, but calumny can never be so, whether written by poets in St. James's-street, Albany, or Grub-street.
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(4) Lines (Morning Post, February 8, 1814).
Written on reading the insolent verses published by Lord Byron at the end of his new poem, "
The Corsair
" beginning
"Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line."
"Unblest by nature in thy mien,