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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Such rich confusion[^[211]] charms the ravish’d sight,

When vernal Sabbaths to the Park invite.

Mounts the thick dust, the coaches crowd along,

Presses round Grosvenor Gate th’ impatient throng;

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White-muslined misses and mammas are seen,

Linked with gay cockneys, glittering o’er the green:

The rising breeze unnumbered charms displays,

And the tight ankle strikes th’ astonished gaze.

But chief, thou Nurse of the Didactic Muse,