If such the plagues and pains to write by rule, Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives men happiness, or leaves them ease. POPE. LONDON: AZ 1943 RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, 1835. 42821. OTHEQUE CANTONE LAUSANNE UNIVERSITAIRE LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. ADVERTISEMENT. THAT the weakest go to the wall, is an old and vulgar adage, which I am not sure that I clearly understand; but, if its meaning be that they look to it as a means of support, my own Muse will undoubtedly afford a new and striking example of its truth, since, in her progress through the following pages, she will be found constantly resorting to the classic walls of Pompeii and Herculaneum to guide her tottering steps. |