1790
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Rev. Thomas Warton
Emanuel Empty, "Probationary Ode, for the Laureate" English Chronicle (3 June 1790).
Commentary for
Rev. Thomas Warton:
1746: Rev. Joseph Warton
1750: J. S., Wadham College
1754: Samuel Johnson
1754: Rev. Joseph Warton
1754: Rev. Joseph Spence
1755: Anonymous
1756: Academicus
1757: Robert Bedingfield
1759: James Harris
1759: John Campbell
1760: Anonymous
1760: Edward Cooper
1760: Bonnell Thornton
1761: Bp. Robert Lowth
1761: William Shenstone
1761: Anonymous
1761: Rev. Joseph Warton
1762: Horace Walpole
1762: Anonymous
1762: William Warburton
1770: Thomas Gray
1770: Rev. Richard Farmer
1770: Rev. James Granger
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1774: Elizabeth Carter
1776: Rev. Edmund Cartwright
1777: Samuel Johnson
1777: Anonymous
1777: Rev. William Mason
1777: Anonymous
1777: Anonymous
1778: John Bampfylde
1778: Anonymous
1779: Anonymous
1779: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1781: Anonymous
1782: Rev. William Mason
1783: A. B.
1783: Anonymous
1783: George Steevens
1784: Anonymous
1785: Anonymous
1785: The Cottage Mouse
1785: Anonymous
1785: Anonymous
1785: Anonymous
1785: Anna Seward
1785: Anonymous
1786: George Colman
1786: William Mavor
1786: John Wolcot
1786: Rev. Bryan Waller
1786: R. S.
1786: Anonymous
1787: J. R.
1787: Oxfordian
1787: Anonymous
1788: Edward Pye-Waters
1789: William Hayley
1790: Pan
1790: A. B. G
1790: John Wolcot
1790: Emanuel Empty
1790: Joseph Ritson
1790: Wartophilus
1790: Rev. J. G.
1790: John Bannister
1790: Anonymous
1790: John Wolcot
1790 ca.: A Friend
1790: Anonymous
1791: Philisides
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1796: I. H.
1799: Henry Kirke White
1800: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1800: Thomas James Mathias
1804: Joseph Dennie
1805: Sir Walter Scott
1806: G. W. C.
1807: Anonymous
1807: Robert Southey
1807: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1809: Dr. Nathan Drake
1818: William Hazlitt
1822: Robert Southey
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825: A Constant Reader
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1834: John Wilson
1836: Hartley Coleridge
1842: C. H. Timperley
1850: Leigh Hunt
1854: Leigh Hunt
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward
1882: Epes Sargent
Great Caesar's praise I fain would sing,
But find my Muse a cup too low;
Good Salisbury step and tell the King,
That I begin my Ode with — O!
O! for a cup of cordial sack,
My lazy Pegasus to spur,
And drive him o'er each vulgar hack,
Like mastiff straddling o'er a cur!
Thy noble nostrils from afar
Can catch the scent of Fortune's gale,
Each rising hope to make or mar,
To Courtly sack turn College ale.
Ale, thin or thick, contends in vain
With Sack, more energetic matter;
Witness TOM WARTON'S maudlin brain,
Truant from Charley o'er the Water.
When Isis languish'd, like his lays,
Cam flow'd along in loyal pride;
Now we behold far other days,
And Tories for their poor provide.
Arm'd with thy wand, like Mercury,
To drive damn'd Wits and Whigs about,
I dread to meet thy towering eye;
O be as merciful as stout!
If thou wilt only wet my whistle,
The peerless Peer shall be so prais'd
In Poem long, in long Epistle,
Old Hatfield House shall stand amaz'd.
Say but the word, or nod thy nob,
I have materials ready by me,
To do as workmanlike a job,
As e'er was finish'd; — only try me.
I'll lend St. James's such a lift,
As sober Poets little think of;
But first inspire me with the gift
Of something good to eat and drink of.