Lewis no more the tender maid affrights
With incantations, ravishments, and sprites;
Crusca (to Gifford thanks!) is fairly fled,
And Cottle’s epics sleep among the dead;
E’en Wolcot’s impious blasphemies are o’er,
And Andrews’ Prologues are the vogue no more.
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Alluding to Rosa Matilda’s effusions; M. G. Lewis, author of “The Monk;” Gifford’s attack on the Della Cruscans; Amos Cottle’s poems, and the satirical works of Dr. John Wolcot, known as “Peter Pindar.”)
The Mæviad, by William Gifford, 1795. In imitation of a satire of Horace, and directed against the Della-Cruscan school of Poetry. See The Baviad.
The Moneiad: or The Power of Money. By the Rev. W. P. Macdonald, late Chaplain of the Regiment of Roll. London. James Harper, 46 Fleet Street. 1818.