"I own like not Johnson's turgid style," &c.
are by Peter Pindar, whose works I have not, and so cannot give an exact reference. The extract containing them will be found in Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature, vol. ii. p. 298.
P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.
"Topsy Turvy" (Vol. viii., p. 385.).—This is ludicrously derived, in Roland Cashel, p. 104., from top side t'other way.
P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.
"When the Maggot bites" (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 304. 353.).—Another illustration of this phrase may be found in Swift (Introduction to Tale of a Tub):
"The two principal qualifications (says he) of a fanatic preacher are, his inward light, and his head full of maggots; and the two different fates of his writings are to be burnt or worm-eaten."
The word maggot is sometimes used for the whim or crotchet itself; thus Butler:
"To reconcile our late dissenters,
Our brethren though by different venters;