1798
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Edmund Burke
Anonymous, "On reading Burke's Reflections, and Paine's Age of Reason" American Mercury [Hartford] (8 March 1798).
Commentary for
Edmund Burke:
1759: Elizabeth Montagu
1765: William Gerard Hamilton
1766: Horace Walpole
1770: Sophrona
1771: Anonymous
1772: Anonymous
1774: Oliver Goldsmith
1775: Rev. Joseph Sterling
1775: Anonymous
1775: Anonymous
1775: Anonymous
1777: Q.
1777: Anonymous
1778: Anonymous
1778: J. S.
1780: Hampden
1780: T. S.
1780: Anonymous
1780: Anonymous
1780: Anonymous
1780: E. P.
1781: Sarah Emma Spencer
1781: Anonymous
1782: Fanny Burney
1782: Anonymous
1782: Anonymous
1783: Anonymous
1783: Anonymous
1784: Samuel Johnson
1784: Mary Leadbeater
1784: Anonymous
1784: Anonymous
1784: Anonymous
1784: Anonymous
1784: Anonymous
1784: Anonymous
1786: Anonymous
1786: Anonymous
1787: Anonymous
1788: J. Day
1789: Anonymous
1789: Rev. Bryan Waller
1789: Anonymous
1789: L. M.
1790: Horace Walpole
1790: Anonymous
1790: Anonymous
1790: Elizabeth Carter
1790: Frances Burney
1790: John Williams
1790: Anonymous
1791: Shenkin
1791: Anna Seward
1791: Edward Gibbon
1791: Philanthropos
1791: William Fernyhough
1791: Anonymous
1791: Rev. William Lisle Bowles
1791: Anonymous
1791: Anonymous
1791: Anonymous
1791: Literator
1792: J. S.
1792: Pindaricus
1792: William Roscoe
1792: Anonymous
1793: Rev. George Butt
1793: Anonymous
1793: Anonymous
1793: Punctilio
1793: Anonymous
1794: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1794: Anonymous
1795: Anonymous
1795: Mr. Thomas Fool
1795: Anonymous
1795 ca.: Thomas Sanderson
1795: B. W.
1796: One of the Multitude
1796: John Williams
1796: Simplicius
1796: W. T.
1797: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1797: Anonymous
1797: Anonymous
1797 ca.: Thomas Clio Rickman
1797: Cantabrigiensis
1797: John of Hazelgreen
1797: Charles Burney
1798: Thomas Green
1798: Crito
1798: Anonymous
1804: Dr. William Perfect
1806: Richard Cumberland
1808: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1811: Richard Cumberland
1814: James Jennings
1817: William Hazlitt
1820 ca.: Anne Grant
1822: William Cook
1830: Thomas Babington Macaulay
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As Jack and Will, the other day,
Came piping hot from college,
They met with Burke upon the way,
That blunderbuss of knowledge.
Tom Paine pass'd next, then in a fret—
Said Jack, "In lucky season,
We came from Oxford, since we've met
The two great lights of reason."
"That each pursues a different plan,"
Said Will, "seems very odd;
"One tramples on the Rights of Man,
And one the Rights of God!"
Said Jack, "I think they're arrant knaves,
And both deserve to swing:
'Tis plain they'd wish to make us slaves
To Satan — and — the King!"