Oh, the books that are truly damn’d never will sell,
But are truly damn’d on to the close;
So their publishers wished, when their value so fell,
They had fall’n on her Ladyship’s toes.
The National Omnibus, April 15, 1831.
On the House of Lords Throwing out the Reform Bill.
Believe me if all that demolish’d plate glass,
Which I cannot observe without pain;
Could be made by to-morrow one glittering mass,