They squandered the wealth filched from want and from woe.
That scene in the charnel-house burnt in his brain;
He went to Sir William[96] at once by the train,
And explained that his soul would be harassed until
He had helped with his vote the Municipal Bill.
The Referee. April 20, 1884.
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The Poems of M. G. Lewis were deemed worthy of imitation by the authors of The Rejected Addresses, and Horace Smith accordingly wrote one entitled “Fire and Ale,” of which Lord Jeffrey said in the Edinburgh Review, “Fire and Ale,” by M. G. Lewis, exhibits not only a faithful copy of the spirited, loose, and flowing versification of that singular author, but a very just representation of that mixture of extravagance and jocularity which has impressed most of his writings with the character of a sort of farcical horror.”
Fire and Ale.
My palate is parched with Pierian thirst,