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
_Knave or Not_, a superficial but dangerous work, 51.
_See_ Holcroft.
L.
Lamballe, Madame, her head carried about to display Jacobin humanity,
44.
Lashknave, Lawrence—account of the Corresponding Society, 220;
letter from, 701.
Lauderdale, Earl of, assertion of, respecting trade, refuted, 336;
friendship of, with Brissot and his coadjutors, 513.
Lavater’s _Address to the Directory_, 280;
a mixture of adulation and abuse, _ib._;
praises the French Revolution, 282;
reprobates the invasion of Switzerland, _ib._
Lecturers, Pulpit, in London, often methodistical and ignorant, 399.
Letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, 409;
petulant insolence of, 410;
elegant extracts from, _ib._;
refined phraseology, 411;
abuse of, 412;
scandalous insinuation of, against an eminent prelate, 413.
Letter to _The Anti-Jacobin Review_ on modern Catilines, and the
evidence at Maidstone, 593;
to Mr. Fox, reviewed, 530 (_see_ Fox);
to the Bishop of Rochester from Mr. Rhys, reviewed, 534;
position that war is, in all cases, unchristian disproved, _ib._;
no precepts against it delivered by our Saviour, 533.
Liberality, real, an excellent quality, 440;
term often misapplied by Jacobins, _ib._
Licentiousness of the press, 1.
Lloyd’s Edmund Oliver, declamatory abuse of the military profession,
177;
censures the war with the regicides, 178;
proposes to level rank and property, 179;
doctrines praised. _See_ Critical and Analytical.
Loan of wives, a practice among Jacobins. _See_ Fraunces.
Louis XVI., Cléry’s journal of confinement and sufferings of, 42;
persecution of, 43;
brutal treatment of, 45;
audacious insolence to, 46;
abused by newspapers, 47;
exemplary conduct of, 48;
monstrous trial of, 49;
execution of, 50.
_Lovers’ Vows_ reviewed, 479;
object, tendency, and character, 480.
M.
Mallet du Pan, _British Mercury_ of, reviewed, 403;
object of the work, _ib._;
throws light on French principles, _ib._;
able and useful advice in the preface, 404;
gratitude to the British nation, 405;
analysis and extracts, 406;
account of Swiss cantons, 407;
description of a Swiss wedding, 408;
account of affairs in Italy, 493;
account of the destruction of Helvetic liberty, 501;
character of the French Revolutionists, 502;
effects on other nations, 503;
state of resources of Switzerland, 504;
character of Weiss the French partisan, 506;
conduct of, 507;
pathetic description of the last efforts of Berne, 509;
reflections, 511;
character of Buonaparte, 513;
_British Mercury_ recommended to all crowned heads, _ib._;
general character of the work, 515.
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