Witnesses present,
Philo Fun, }
Jack Jockus. }
THE VISION OF LIBERTY.
Written in the manner of Spenser.
[As the virulent style of political writing prevalent ninety years ago is now but little known, the present edition of The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin seemed a convenient medium for giving some specimens of it which appeared in The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, a work conducted on the same principles, but by different writers, and with the cognizance of the government. Two of them were by W. Cobbett, who, had he been less arrogant and contentious, and more consistent, would have been, in the words of Lord Dalling, “a very great man in the world; as it was he made a great noise in it”. (See pp. [311]–319.)
The Vision of Liberty is by C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe, an author and artist much esteemed by Scottish antiquarians, of which specimens only need be given. Of The Anarchists, the author is not known.]
I.
O wretched man, how long wilt thou refuse
Thy Maker’s favour, and His mercy great?