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O ' —The personages assailed in this satire have a sturdy foe to encounter. If, unluckily, some of our friends be among them, however we may wish to mount the stage in their defence, our interference might, possibly, have 110 other effect than to render future flagellation still more violent. We must therefore leave them to fight their own battles:—for, though Broughton, the Pugilist and Beaf-eater, when in Germany, having had a quarrel with some soldiers of a Hanoverian regiment, is said to have offered to fight every individual of that corps, provided he might have leave to return home when he had done; we cannot “ screw our courage to the striking place” tight enough to fight for a whole regiment malt rait e by one who might answer, perhaps, if asked his name,—“ my name is Legion.”We shall therefore, without attempting a defence of the nominal culprits, merely bear our testimony to the abilitie#of the judge, and present our readers with the exordium to his poem ; which will at once manifest the author’s design, and serve as a specimen of the polish and force of his numbers ;
Newspaper Details
Monthly Review
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 01, 1799
Page 92
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David L.
WI, USA 19 Jun 2017
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