Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April.

  • Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ( 30 ) At length deliver’d was her lovely brain, And, lo ! on Frogmore's happy happy plain, 5 Wonders on wonders foon were brought to bed* Sublime the Pair of England fate t Staring with mofl; enormous ftate, The family of Orange by their fide ^ With all the pretty offspring round, That ftruck the mob with awe profound% Sweet State, untainted by one grain of pride I And bold befide them fat each valiant Peer; Carpmeal, and courtly Chesterfield, were there 3 14 Vcrfe 13.^ Each valiant Peer.] “ His valiant Peers were plac’d around.” Dry den. To the ignorant in punftuation, this paflage may feem degrading j as though the Poet meant MelTieurs Carpmeal, Macmanus, Townsend, and jEALotrs, as a fart of the Peers j whereas no fuch idea was intended. I neverthelefs entertain a high refped: for thofe Gentlemen, as very ufeful members of fociety; yet cannot place them Jo high—it is fo aftonifhinga leap from Bow-ftreet. 4 ■ Macmanus