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Poetical and Congratulatory Epiflit to Jama\ / Bjfwtll, Ehj; B/Pster Pindar, Efq\ 4to.A 'T’Hat this writer poflefies great fatiri-\ cai powers, we have before coafeffed, \nd we have before lamented and repre. bended iheir mifapplication : but to render his literary talents fobfervient to pu-blic inftruftion, or private good, feetns not to form any part of this author’s fyj.term.Not with (landing the ridicule of tbe fat in It, Rofwell’s Tour will be read and admired : attention, which never (lumbered or ficpt over the pages of the Journal, may poffibiy do both over Peter Pindar’s recapitulation of the anecdotes. That there are feverai very witty and laughable hits in the Epiftle, we do not deny, for it is not our intention to defraud the author of hia only praifc; but we think the Will-o’-wifp, to which he likens Bofwell, is a fitter emblem of the unprofitable glittering of his own -tirical wit.We give our readers the iotrodult;9ory lines and the concluGon, which, we think, are* the two beft written paffages in the wholr Epiftic :O BofwcIJ, Bozzy, Bruce, white’cr thy name, Thou mighty fturlc for anecdote and fame; Thou jackal I, leading lioo Johafon forth,To cat MfcPhcrfoa 'mid ft hii native North: To frighten grave profcllbrs wiih his roar, And (hake the Hcbtidci from ihore to (bore— All hail l—at length, ambitious Thane, thy rage.To give one fpark to Fame's befpanglcdpagef Is amply gratified—-a thound eyes Survey thy book with rapture and furprtfe I Loud of thy Tour a thou fand tongues have fpoken,And wonder’d that thy bones were never broken!Triumphant thou through Time's vaft gulpb (halt (ail.The pilot of our literary whale;Clofc to the claflic Rambler (halt thou ding, Clofe as a fiipple courtier to a king!Fate (lull not fluke thee off with all iu power, ^ %Stuck Ida a bat to fgme old i*yVl tower-Nay,
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Scots Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Jun 01, 1786
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