So, to amend it, I was told to go
And seek the firm of Clutterbuck and Co.'
Surely 'Emanuel Jennings,' compared with the above, rises to sublimity.
[54] 'We come next to three ludicrous parodies—of the story of The Stranger, of George Barnwell, and of the dagger-scene in Macbeth, under the signature of Momus Medlar. They are as good, we think, as that sort of thing can be, and remind us of the happier efforts of Colman, whose less successful fooleries are professedly copied in the last piece in the volume.'—Edinburgh Review.
[55] Theodore Hook, at that time a very young man, and the companion of the annotator in many wild frolics. The cleverness of his subsequent prose compositions has cast his early stage songs into oblivion. This parody was, in the second edition, transferred from Colman to Hook.
[56] Then Director of the Opera House.
[57] At that time the chief dancer at this establishment.
[58] Vauxhall Bridge then, like the Thames Tunnel at present, stood suspended in the middle of that river.
[59] The Critical Reviewers. The others are the London and Monthly.
[60] Vide Admiral Tyrrel's monument in Westminster Abbey.