And said, “Nay, we are seven!”
William Wordsworth.
New Peers.
The Poet Wordsworth is supposed to propose to King William IV. that he, with Coleridge, Southey, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Croly shall be made Peers, there being then a necessity to create Peers in order to carry the Reform Bill, which had already passed the Commons.
A driver of a rattling cab,
Or gorgeous omnibus,
That passeth every great man by,
What could he know of us?
I met a driver such as this,