Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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A factious demagogue and pension’d slave!

Loose, loose your cry—with ire satiric flash:

Let all the Opposition feel your lash;

And prove them to these hot and partial times,

A combination of the worst of crimes!

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But softer numbers softer subjects fit:

In liquid phrases thrill the praise of Pitt;

Extol in eulogies of candid truth

The Virgin Minister—the Heav’n-born Youth;