"For me, who, wandering with pedestrian Muses, Contend not with you on the winged steed, I wish your fate may yield ye…"

"If, fallen in evil days on evil tongues, Milton appeal'd to the Avenger, Time, If Time, the Avenger, execrates his wr…"

"Would he adore a sultan? he obey The intellectual eunuch Castlereagh?"

"Bob Southey! You're a poet—Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although 'tis true that you turn'd out …"

"And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood,— Explaining metaphysics to the n…"

"And Wordsworth, in a rather long Excursion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the…"

"You're shabby fellows—true—but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill."

"Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— Perhaps some virtuous blushes."

"Scott, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Crabbe will try 'Gainst you the question with posterity."

"Even good men like to make the public stare."