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CAMPBELL, E8q....sceccseccccsces Fancies on Fancy... ccccscscccscccccccccsccces The Knight of the Hammer .......-..-eeecees The Aérial Ship .......ccccccacccsececevccece Supplement to Joyce’s Dialogues .........ccccceeee Sonnet ....cccccccccrcsccsccces cvccccccccssscesseccsvecsevens Ode to Macassar Rowland .......s.sccsssssssessesseeees Patent Ode to Mr. Perry ......cccccsccsccssscccccccens Nosological Love ........cccscecsccees The Famous One .....ccccercsssecees Thegjow, from Wessel ....c.cccsscrccsccsscsecsccsesees oD . 1 4 17 26 29 88 40 43 49 57 65 77 78 83 87 89 90 93 vi. CONTENTS. Critical and Philosophical Dictionary ...........000. Ord’s Curse on Scotland ..........sccecccccesscccccsccece The Drama’s Glory, addressed to Jas. Smith, Esq. Ode on Temple Bar .........cssccsosccssccccccsscecces Samuel Rogers to her Grace of —————.........20. Frankensteinism ; dedicated to Mrz. Shelley......... Kit Crab’s Note ........000 cesses The Modern Bard ..........ccsecccsscescccerccsccsccsens Ode to Ude .....cccrcccccscoccncccccccscccccccscscccecccces The Arch-Bibliopolist ...........ccsssscessssseesevese Kit Crab’s Note ....sseccess Kit Crab again! ........scccsccsccccccssescees Hymns in Prose, not by Mrs. Barbauld..........0000 The R. A.’s Monitory and Minitory Addresses to Lord Byron: Fatal Note ....scsscscsscssssscesecseees Address Second ....4.4 sssssssessssssassnces Fat Note ...ssccccscssocscsecsecesoessneee BB's Note to L cccccscccssssecccccccees _ Town Child and Country Child ; dedicated to Allan My Last Piece; addressed to the Last Man......... Page. 97 112 17 12] 126 127 141 142 146 156 2b. 160 164 165, 172 180 183 185 196 198 202 DEDICATION WITHOUT FULSOMENESS. TO Leica Hunt, Ese. Tomas CampBELL, Esg.. J. Gwitt, Esq. Grorce Rosins, Esq. J. W. Orp, Esa. James Smitu, Esa. TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE Roya. AcapDEmMy; AND TO THE “Oc TloAAoe oF Lesser Norte: “Tus Litrte VoLume 18 VERY FREELY DEDICATED BY ROBIN BOOD. PREFACE. Wirnovt Preface of some kind or other, it is hardly allowable for a book to show its own face to the world; at any rate, it cannot very well expect to be countenanced by the public. Many readers, indeed, make a point of skip- ping over such matter altogether; wherein they act unadvisedly, because many writers put more pith into-the pages so appropriated, than into any other part of their book. Let them therefore read my Preface or not, I have taken care that it shall at all events be Red. Some authors there are, who avail themselves of their prefaces in order to hitch in odd particulars about themselves. Now I have not the vanity to suppose the public will care a jot to know anything about me ;—there- fore, all I shall divulge in regard to myself is, that I was born under the sign ¢ (Sagit- tarius), which I think proper thus explicitly. to state, lest evil-minded persons should give it out that I was certainly born under that of A 2 a PREPACE. Xi. nonsense; while others will say, that your nonsense predominates by far too much over the ingredients with which you have endea- voured to spice it. Your note on fat, for instance, may be considered by such readers a piece of absolute fatuity. One thing alone is certain: publish, and you will then ascer- tain whether it would have been more judi- cious not to have published at all; and I shall know—what, I confess to vou, I do not at present—whether I ought to say, Parce, precor, Rodin, et tu depone Sicittas.”’ Like most other mortals, I am _tolerably docile, and patient of advice, when it accords with my own wishes—not to say my own previous determination. Here therefore I am, as the reader now finds, attired in a suit of motley, with a fool’s cap upon—lI leave others to add, a mere fool’s skull; warning them, however, that my quiver is not yet exhausted: therefore, a little civility may save some of them from quivering by-and-by