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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.

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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

There appears to have been some little mistake in the Translator
here—_Rhodope_ is not, as he seems to imagine, the name of a woman, but
of a mountain, and not in _Russia_. Possibly, however, the Translator
may have been misled by the inaccuracy of the traveller here alluded to.

Footnote 168:

                                 Ut mihi devio
                         Rupes, et vacuum nemus
                         Mirari libet!

[Footnote:

          [169]O Naiadum potens
  Baccharumque valentium
  Proceras manibus vertere fraxinos.
  [170]Nil parvum, aut humili modo,
  Nil mortale loquar. Dulce periculum est,
  O Lenæe, sequi deum
  Cingentem viridi tempora pampino.

®

Footnote 171:

[This clever parody has reference to the attempt made by the DUKE OF
NORTHUMBERLAND to evade payment of PITT’S Income-tax. To mitigate the
severity of the pressure on persons with large families, a deduction of
ten per cent. was allowed to persons who had above a certain number of
children. Among others the Duke was not ashamed to avail himself of this
clause.—ED.]

Footnote 172:

[See Note at p. 84 in “_A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox_,” line 18.—ED.]

Footnote 173:

[SIR HUGH SMITHSON married Lady Eliz. Seymour, great-granddaughter of
Joceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, who was the last of the male
Percies. He was created DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND in 1766. The hero of this
Ballad was his son, who died in 1817.—ED.]

Footnote 174:

The ceremony of invocation (in didactic poems especially) is in some
measure analogous to the custom of drinking toasts; the corporeal
representatives of which are always supposed to be absent, and
unconscious of the irrigation bestowed upon their names. Hence it is,
that our Author addresses himself to the natives of an island who are
not likely to hear, and who, if they did, would not understand him.

Footnote 175:

His Majesty’s ship _Endeavour_.

Footnote 176:

In justice to our Author we must observe, that there is a delicacy in
this picture, which the words, in their common acceptation, do not
convey. The amours of an English shepherd would probably be preparatory
to marriage (which is contrary to our Author’s principles), or they
might disgust us by the vulgarity of their object. But in Otaheite,
where the place of a shepherd is a perfect sinecure (there being no
sheep on the island), the mind of the reader is not offended by any
disagreeable allusion.

Footnote 177:

Laws made by parliaments or kings.

Footnote 178:

Customs voted or imposed by ditto, not the customs here alluded to.

Footnote 179:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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History

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

There appears to have been some little mistake in the Translator
here—_Rhodope_ is not, as he seems to imagine, the name of a woman, but
of a mountain, and not in _Russia_. Possibly, however, the Translator
may have been misled by the inaccuracy of the traveller here alluded to.

Footnote 168:

                                 Ut mihi devio
                         Rupes, et vacuum nemus
                         Mirari libet!

[Footnote:

          [169]O Naiadum potens
  Baccharumque valentium
  Proceras manibus vertere fraxinos.
  [170]Nil parvum, aut humili modo,
  Nil mortale loquar. Dulce periculum est,
  O Lenæe, sequi deum
  Cingentem viridi tempora pampino.

®

Footnote 171:

[This clever parody has reference to the attempt made by the DUKE OF
NORTHUMBERLAND to evade payment of PITT’S Income-tax. To mitigate the
severity of the pressure on persons with large families, a deduction of
ten per cent. was allowed to persons who had above a certain number of
children. Among others the Duke was not ashamed to avail himself of this
clause.—ED.]

Footnote 172:

[See Note at p. 84 in “_A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox_,” line 18.—ED.]

Footnote 173:

[SIR HUGH SMITHSON married Lady Eliz. Seymour, great-granddaughter of
Joceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, who was the last of the male
Percies. He was created DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND in 1766. The hero of this
Ballad was his son, who died in 1817.—ED.]

Footnote 174:

The ceremony of invocation (in didactic poems especially) is in some
measure analogous to the custom of drinking toasts; the corporeal
representatives of which are always supposed to be absent, and
unconscious of the irrigation bestowed upon their names. Hence it is,
that our Author addresses himself to the natives of an island who are
not likely to hear, and who, if they did, would not understand him.

Footnote 175:

His Majesty’s ship _Endeavour_.

Footnote 176:

In justice to our Author we must observe, that there is a delicacy in
this picture, which the words, in their common acceptation, do not
convey. The amours of an English shepherd would probably be preparatory
to marriage (which is contrary to our Author’s principles), or they
might disgust us by the vulgarity of their object. But in Otaheite,
where the place of a shepherd is a perfect sinecure (there being no
sheep on the island), the mind of the reader is not offended by any
disagreeable allusion.

Footnote 177:

Laws made by parliaments or kings.

Footnote 178:

Customs voted or imposed by ditto, not the customs here alluded to.

Footnote 179:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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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