[51] Examples are _Elijah’s Mantle_ (1807) by James Sayer (1748–1823), with its answer, the anonymous _Elijah’s Mantle Parodied_ (1807); the _Uti Possidetis and Status Quo_ (1807), _The Devil and the Patriot_ (1807), and Canning’s famous ballad _The Pilot that Weathered the Storm_. [52] _Poetry_, i., 17. [53] _Letters_, i., 209. [54] It is probable that Byron’s verses are modelled somewhat on the _Epistle on His Schoolfellows at Eton_ (1766) by his relative and guardian, Lord Carlisle (1748–1825). [55] _Letters_, i., 47. [56] _Letters_, i., 183. [57] _Letters_, i., 167. [58] _Letters_, i., 211. [59] _Letters_, i., 212. [60] _Blackwood’s_, ix., 461. [61] This practice was ridiculed by his enemy, Lady Montagu, in the lines: “On the one side we see how Horace thought, And on the other how he never wrote.” [62] The opening couplet of _English Bards_ is a paraphrase of the first two lines of Juvenal, I. Other imitations occur in lines 87–88 (Juvenal, I., 17–18) and lines 93–94 (Juvenal, I., 19–21). [63] _English Bards_, 47–48. [64] _Satires_, iii., 15–18. [65] _London_, 35–36. [66] _Table Talk_, 571–572. [67] _Baviad_, 215 ff. [68] _All the Talents_, ii., 46–47. [69] _English Bards_, 103–106. [70] _Dunciad_, i., 28. [71] _Satires_, i., 35–36. [72] _English Bards_, 819–820. [73] _English Bards_, 991–994. [74] See _English Bards_, 144–145, 165–166, 202, 235, etc. [75] Prologue to the second part of the _Conquest of Granada_, 1–2. [76] _Essay on Criticism_, 610–630. [77] _The Apology_ was written in response to a scathing article on the _Rosciad_, printed in the _Critical Review_ for March, 1761. This periodical, ultra-Tory in its principles, made a point of decrying, any work which was by a Whig author, or expressed any sympathy with liberal ideas. Though the editor, Tobias Smollett, was able to exculpate himself from the charge, Churchill deemed him accountable for the uncomplimentary review and, without naming him, described him in his satire as “alien from God, and foe to all mankind.” [78] _The Apology_, 110–111. [79] _English Bards_, 429. [80] _The Apology_, 44. [81] _English Bards_, 71. [82] _Gentle Alterative._ [83] _Baviad_, 200–201. [84] It is curious that Byron’s views on poetry were not very different from those held by Jeffrey. Both men believed in maintaining the common-sense traditions of the eighteenth century. [85] “There can be no worse sign for the taste of the times than the depreciation of Pope” (_Letters_, v, 559). [86] W. Tooke, in his edition of Churchill’s _Works_ (1804), expresses one phase of contemporary opinion in speaking of “the simplicity of a later school of poetry, the spawn of the lakes, consisting of a mawkish combination of the nonsense verse of the nursery with the rhodomontade of German Mysticism and Transcendentalism” (i., 189). [87] _Epistles to Pope_, ii., 165.