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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Save Parr’s[^[54]] buzz prose,[^[55]] and Courtenay’s[^[56]] kidnapp’d rhymes?[^[57]]

Or is it he,—the youth,[^[59]] whose daring soul

With half a mission sought the Frozen Pole;—

And then, returning from the unfinish’d work,

Wrote half a letter,—to demolish Burke?

Studied Burke’s manner,—aped his forms of speech;

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Though when he strives his metaphors to reach,

One luckless slip his meaning overstrains,

And loads the blunderbuss with Bedford’s brains.[^[60]]