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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For three bright nymphs the wily wizard burns;—

Three bright-eyed nymphs requite his flame by turns.

Strange force of magic skill! combined of yore

With Plato’s science and Menecmus’ lore.[^[219]]

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In Afric’s school, amid those sultry sands

High on its base where Pompey’s pillar stands,

This learnt the Seer; and learnt, alas! too well,

Each scribbled talisman, and smoky spell:

What muttered charms, what soul-subduing arts,