Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820
Gifford, John, preface to, _see_ Jordan’s _Address_, 180;
a zealous and able champion of our laws, religion, and morals, 181;
abused by the Jacobins, _ib._;
address from, to the loyal associations, 183;
list of Directory for England, Scotland, and Ireland, 184;
salutary tendency, and ability of execution, 185;
Second Letter of, to Mr. Erskine, review of, reviewed, 678;
as a champion of the constitution, he, according to the _Critical_
Reviewers, deserves no quarter, _ib._;
attacks the legal champion of opposition, surrounded by his army of
tropes and figures, misrepresentations, egotism, and anachronism,
_ib._;
exposes Mr. Erskine’s falsifications of dates, 679;
illustrates the wrong conclusions in which the lawyer abounds, 680;
proves the proceedings of seditious societies and demagogues to have
been the causes of the proclamation, 1792;
forcible extracts from, 681;
refers Mr. Erskine to the Report of the Irish Committee, _ib._
Godwin, edits the Posthumous Works of his wife, 91;
inculcates the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, _ib._;
reprobates marriage, 93;
considers Mary Godwin as a model for female imitation, 94;
certifies his wife’s constitution to have been amorous, 96;
memoirs of her, _ib._;
account of his wife’s adventures as a kept mistress, 97;
celebrates her happiness while the concubine of Imlay, _ib._;
informs the public that she was concubine to himself before she was
his wife, 98;
declares no person in his right senses will frequent places of public
worship, _ib._;
morals examined, 331;
if his principle be granted, his deduction not absurd, 332;
his principle refuted, 333;
praised by the _Analytical_, 335;
compared to the Supreme Being, _ib._
Government can only perish by suicide, 9.
_See_ Constitution, Directory.
Grattan, answer to, 37;
character and projects of, 38;
arguments for Catholic emancipation, 40;
evidence concerning, 298.
H.
Hamilton, on the United States, 841;
an able and staunch advocate for the American government, _ib._;
hostile to France, _ib._;
persecutions by Jacobins, 842.
Harper, Goodloe, speech of, reviewed, 421;
divides revolutionists into philosophers, Jacobins, and
Sans-Culottes, 422;
account of the artifices of French agents, 423.
Hedgehog, Humphrey, abused by the Jacobinical Reviewers, 343;
causes of their abuse, 344.
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