Line 25.—[The Rev. SAMUEL PARR, LL.D., was not only a great scholar, but an uncompromising Whig, and one of Fox’s most enthusiastic supporters. His conversational powers were great, and his arguments were enforced by boldness, dogmatism, and arrogance, which qualities, however, did not always exempt him from stinging retorts even from the fair sex. The following, among other attacks, appears in Crabb Robinson’s interesting _Diary_, ii. 457:— A RECIPE. To half of BUSBY’S skill in mood and tense Add BENTLEY’S pleasantry, without his sense: Of WARBURTON take all the spleen you find, And leave his genius and his wit behind. Squeeze CHURCHILL’S rancour from the verse it flows in, And knead it stiff with JOHNSON’S heavy prosing. Add all the piety of ST. VOLTAIRE, Mix the gross compound—_Fiat_ DR. PARR. His person, in full canonicals, with capacious wig, unfailing tobacco pipe and tankard, is, with the effigies of many other noted politicians of the period, introduced into a spirited bacchanalian scene by Gillray, published in 1801, entitled _The Union Club_.] Footnote 55: BUZZ PROSE.—The learned reader will perceive that this is an elegant _metonymy_, by which the quality belonging to the outside of the head is transferred to the inside. _Buzz_ is an epithet usually applied to a large wig. It is here used for swelling, burly, bombastic writing. There is a picture of HOGARTH’S (the Election Ball, we believe), in which there are a number of Hats thrown together in one corner of the room; and it is remarked as a peculiar excellence that there is not a Hat among them of which you cannot to a certainty point out the owner among the figures dancing, or otherwise distributed through the picture. We remember to have seen an experiment of this kind tried at one of the Universities with the _wig_ and _writings_ here alluded to. A page taken from the most happy and elaborate part of the writings was laid upon a table in a barber’s shop, round which a number of wigs of different descriptions and dimensions were suspended, and among them that of the Author in question. It was required of a young student, after reading a few sentences in the page, to point out among the wigs that which must of necessity belong to the Head in which such sentences had been engendered. The experiment succeeded to a miracle. The learned reader will now see all the beauty and propriety of the _metonymy_. Footnote 56: