His skiff in Aganippe plays,
And thine in Lethe’s whirlpool strays,
My Godwin!
From Horace in London, by James and Horace Smith, authors of “Rejected Addresses,” 1815. William Godwin, the author of a Life of Chaucer; “Fleetwood;” “Caleb Williams,” “St. Leon,” and other works, was a well known character in the literary world in the beginning of the present century. He married Mary Wollstonecraft, and their daughter, the authoress of Frankenstein, became the wife of Shelley the poet. William Godwin died in 1836, aged 81. There is a short sketch of his career in “The Maclise Portrait Gallery.”
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The News-paper; or, Ready-made Ideas.
I sing not of a tale of woe
That happ’d some ninety years ago:
I urge a theme that all must know—
The Paper.