Monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum. Virg.
I thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably Shakespeare.
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In Nature's workshop, on a day, Her journeymen inclin'd to play, Half drunk 'twixt cup and can, Took up a clod, which she with care Was modelling a huge sea bear, And swore they'd make't a man. They tried, but, handling ill their tools, Formed, like a pack of bungling fools, A thing so gross and odd; That, when it roll'd about the dish, They knew not if 'twere flesh or fish, A man or Hodmandod. Yet, to compleat their piece of fun, They christen'd it Arch Hamilton; "But what can this thing do?" Kick it down stairs; the devil's in't If it won't do to write and print The Critical Review.Kenrick. |
[21] Editors and printers of news-papers, well known to the public for their impartiality in regard to Roscius.
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Impartially insert each friendly PRO, Suppressing ever CON of every foe;[22] For well I ween, they wot that cons and pros Will tend my faults and follies to expose: Tho' mighty Tom doth still my champion prove, And Lockyer's gauntlet be a chicken glove. |
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[22] A recent instance of this must not pass unnoticed. In the Public Advertiser appeared lately the following quaint panegyric, suggested probably to Roscius himself by his brother George the attorney.
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Nature against G—— | } | Notice of Process. |
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Dame Nature against G—— now by me Her action brings, and thus she grounds her plea. "I never made a man but still You acted like that man at will; Yet ever must I hope in vain To make a man like you again." Hence ruin'd totally by you, She brings her suit, &c. &c.B. Solicitor for the Plaintiff. |
In reply to this notice, it is said, the defendant's plea would have appeared in the same paper; but the cause was obliged to be removed by certiorari to another court; when it appeared thus: