The Smithfield Muses to the ears of Kings, etc.
Lo! the poor toper is imitated from Pope's Essay on Man:
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind, etc.
[P. 87.] Catherine Fanshawe. The parody on Gray was sent by Miss Fanshawe to her friend, Miss Berry (one of Walpole's Misses Berry), with a letter purporting to be a letter of thanks to her for permission to read the verses, which, it was pretended, had been sent by Miss Berry, their author, to Miss Fanshawe for approval. The reference to Sydney Smith is to his lectures on 'Moral Philosophy' delivered at the Royal Institution, 1804-1806. Payne was a fashionable milliner of the period.
[P. 92.] A Fable. Dryden's The Hind and the Panther:
A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged,
Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged.
The Course of Time. Robert Pollok's poem, despite this parody, was so popular that from its first publication in 1827 to 1868 it attained a sale of 78,000 copies.
[P. 93.] Canning and Frere. The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, 1852 and 1854, has been followed in attributing the authorship of the various parodies to Canning and others. The authority consists of Canning's own copy of the Anti-Jacobin, that of Lord Burghersh, that of Wright the publisher, and information given by Upcott.