While gay Thalia's luckless votary, LAMBE*, 510 « As he himself was damned, shall try to damn. « Known by the name! unbounded be thy sway! << Thy HOLLAND's banquets shall each toil repay; « While grateful Britain yields the praise she owes, « TO HOLLAND's hirelings, and to Learning's foes. << Yet mark one caution, ere thy next Review << Spread its light wings of Saffron and of Blue, << Beware lest blundering BROUGHAM ** destroy the sale, 520 a Turn Beef to Bannocks, Cauliflowers to Kail. >> Thus having said, the kilted Goddess kist Her son, and vanished in a Soottish mist***. The honourable G. LAMBE reviewed « BERESFORD'S Miseries, and is moreover Author of a Farce enacted with much applause at the Priory, Stanmore; and damned with great expedition at the late Theatre, Covent-Garden. It was entitled « Whistle for it. >> ** Mr. BROUGHAM, in No. XXV. of the Edinburgh Review, throughout the article concerning Don Pedro de Cevallos, has displayed more politics than policy: many of the worthy Burgesses of Edinburgh being so incensed at the infamous principles it evinces, as to have withdrawn their subscriptions. It seems that Mr. BROUGHAM is not a Pict, as I supposed, but a Borderer, and his name is pronounced Broom, from Trent to Tay;---So be it. *** I ought to apologise to the worthy Deities for introducing carouse! Illustrious HOLLAND!-hard would be his lot, 530 a new Goddess with short petticoats to their notice: but, alas! what was to be doue? I could not say Caledonia's Genius, it being well known there is no Genius to be found from Clackmannan to Caithness, yet without supernatural agency, how was Jeffrey to be saved? The national « Kelpies, » etc. are too unpoetical, and the « Brownies » and « gude neighbours, (spirits of a good disposition) refused to extricate him, A Goddess therefore has been called for the purpose, and great ought to be the gratitude of Jeffrey, seeing it is the only communication he ever held, or is likely to hold, with any thing heavenly. Lord H. has translated some specimens of Lope de Vega, inserted in his life of the Author; both are bepraised by his disinterested guests. Dunedin! view thy children with delight 540 Now to the Drama turn-oh! motley sight! And full-grown actors are endured once more; * Certain it is, her Ladyship is suspected of having displayed her matchless wit in the Edinburgh Review; however that may be, we know from good authority, that the manuscripts are submitted to her perusal---no doubt for correction. ** In the melo-drame of Tekeli, the heroic prince is clap into a barrel on the stage, a new asylum for distressed beroes. While REYNOLDS vents his « dammes, poohs,» and << zounds*, >> 550 And common place, and common sense confounds? * All these are favourite expressions of Mr, R. and prominent in his Comedies, living and defunct. ** Mr. T. Sheridan, the new Manager of Drury-Lane Theatre, stripped the Tragedy of Bonduca of the Dialogue, and exhibited the scenes as the spectacles of Caractacus.--Was this worthy of his sire? or of himself? Gods! o'er those boards shall Folly rear her head Shall sapient managers new scenes produce * Mr. GREENWOOD is, we believe, Scene-Painter to DruryLane Theatre---as such Mr, S. is much indebted to him. ** Mr. S. is the illustrious author of the « Sleeping Beauty,» and some Comedies, particularly « Maids and Bachelors,> Baccalaurei baculo magis quam lauro digni. |