1777
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Hannah More
Anonymous, "To the Author of the Ode to Dragon, the House Dog at Hampton" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (19 May 1777).
Commentary for
Hannah More:
1773: John Langhorne
1773: W. H.
1773: W. H.
1774: Anonymous
1774: Chiron
1776: M. R.
1777: Anonymous
1777: Anonymous
1777: Anonymous
1777: Anonymous
1777: W. H.
1777: T. S.
1778: Samuel Johnson
1778: Numps
1778: Anonymous
1778: Nesbit
1778: Rev. William Tasker
1778: Nesbit
1778: Philo-Musa
1779: T. B****s
1779: Anonymous
1781: Bp. Robert Lowth
1783: Elizabeth Carter
1784: James Beattie
1785: Ann Yearsley
1786: Anonymous
1789: John Williams
1791: Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
1791: A Young Lady
1792: John Bennet
1794: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1795: Elizabeth Montagu
1799: Anonymous
1801: Calliope
1806: William Forbes
1809: Melesina Chenevix Trench
1809: Anonymous
1809: Sydney Smith
1813: Anonymous
1814: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1814: Crito
1815: William Henry Ireland
1819: Leigh Hunt
1820: Anonymous
1822: James Harley
1827: Anonymous
1828: Leigh Hunt
1829: Moreami
1834: Sara Coleridge
1837: Thomas Babington Macaulay
1846: John Dix
1847: Joseph Cottle
1855: Sarah Josepha Hale
1857: Samuel Griswold Goodrich
1858: Cyrus Redding
1871: S. C. Hall
1882: Epes Sargent
1883: Eric S. Robertson
Tho' Roscius will not read your trash,
Or tho' he may deserve a lash,
Yet spare a Lady, Mr. Flash.
But haply it your spleen may raise,
To see a woman merit praise,
And wear the green poetic bays.
From such home thrusts, the Lord defend her!
Or did you think her a Pretender?
Some D'Eon, of the neuter gender?
Or was it really ignorance
Which made you thus in rhyme advance,
And tread your mock-satirist dance?
Permit the fair unblam'd to write!
That every little over-sight
Should bear it's comment, is not right.
The faithful Dog too you defame;
Would he back-bite his master's fame?
'Tis poaching this, not Dragon's game.
Yet (or Report's not worth a button)
Tho' Venison you may not cut on,
Yourself have tasted Hampton mutton.
Garrick a Sun! a Moon the Fair?
Say in what rank will you appear?
A meteor of a lower sphere.