’Twas that Hurst, Duncan, Kelly, all published away,
With Sherwood and Gilbert, and the Piper to pay!
Sweet Row Paternoster, I’d like very well,
To see you and your Publishers marching to hell;
There the devils might rub them behind and before
And they’d never be troubled with the Cholera more.
The National Omnibus. July 8, 1831.
Thomas Moore[121] (Loq.) “I am the English Anacreon, the biographer of Byron and Sheridan, the inditer of Lalla Rookh, and the Man of Melodies. I would suggest to my noble patrons that:—
There is not in the palace a wide room so sweet