[38] See the _Spleen_ (1737) by Matthew Green (1696–1737); _Variety, a Tale for Married People_ (1732); and the poems of Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760), James Bramston (1694–1744), George Colman, the elder (1732–1794), John Dalton (1709–1763), David Garrick (1717–1779). John Duncombe (1729–1763), and many other poetasters. [39] _Probationary Odes_ also anticipate the more famous _Rejected Addresses_ (1812), and the _Poetic Mirror_ (1816) of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. [40] For less reserved praise of the _Rolliad_, see Trevelyan’s _Early History of Charles James Fox_, page 285. [41] In _A Postscript_ he speaks of “the unmeaning and noisy lines of two things called _Baviad_ and _Mæviad_”; while in a note to _Out at Last, or the Fallen Minister_, he presents a sketch of Gifford’s life, accusing him of heinous crimes, and speaking of the “awkward and obscure inversions and verbose pomposity” of the _Baviad_. Gifford replied in the _Epistle to Peter Pindar_ (1800). Mathias and Canning invariably treated Pindar with contempt. [42] _Vision of Judgment_, 92. [43] See _A Dream_ (1786), a bitterly satirical address to George III, and the _Lines Written at Stirling_, attacking the Hanoverians. [44] Byron knew the _New Bath Guide_ well, and admired it. In one of his youthful poems, an _Answer to Some Elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author_ he uses four lines of Anstey’s poem as a motto. He also quotes from it not infrequently in his letters. [45] See _Letters from Simpson the Second to his Dear Brother in Wales_ (1788) and _Groans of the Talents_ (1807), both of which deliberately appropriate Anstey’s scheme. Both are anonymous. [46] See the _Epistle to my Sisters_ (1734) by Thomas Lisle; _The ’Piscopade, a Panegyri-Satiri-Serio-Comical Poem_ (1748) by “Porcupinus Pelagius”; and Goldsmith’s three graceful satires, _Retaliation_ (1774), _The Haunch of Venison_ (1776), and the _Letter to Mrs. Bunbury_ (1777). [47] The attitude of the _Anti-Jacobin_ was almost precisely that already adopted by Gifford and Mathias; that is, it represented extreme Tory feeling, and therefore was resolutely opposed to any movement in literature which seemed new or strange. [48] The _Anti-Jacobin_ was deserted by its original editors, largely because it was becoming too dangerous a weapon for aspiring statesmen to handle. A new journal, under the same name, was less successful. [49] It was the era described by Wordsworth in his sonnets _Written in London, 1802_, and _London, 1802_, the last beginning, “Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters! Altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men.” [50] See the _Nation_, volume xciv., No. 2436, March 7, 1912.