Set forth to satirise the human kind!
How fine a prospect for demoniac view!
‘Creatures whose souls outbalance worlds awake!’
Methinks I hear a pitying angel cry.”
Here we conclude. If our remarks give pain to Mr. Robert Montgomery, we are sorry for it. But, at whatever cost of pain to individuals, literature must be purified from this taint. And, to show that we are not actuated by any feeling of personal enmity towards him, we hereby give notice that, as soon as any book shall, by means of puffing, reach a second edition, our intention is to do unto the writer of it as we have done unto Mr. Robert Montgomery.
INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF ALLUSIONS
ABSOLUTE, Sir Anthony, a leading character in Sheridan’s play of The Rivals
A darker and fiercer spirit, Jonathan Swift, the great Tory writer (1667-1745)