"If after ages grow more humaniz'd, And present cruelty almost forgot; How will the reader, shudd'ring, be surpris'd, At living lobsters in a boiling pot."
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Isaac Gompertz
1774 – 1856
(1774 – 1856) was an early English Jewish poet, who was compared by his contemporaries, including Alexander Jamieson, to Dryden, Pope, Addison and Gray. He was known for the poems "The Modern Antique", "Time, or Light and Shade" and "Devon"; his works received positive attention from Leigh Hunt and were well received by the press.
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