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POETRY.
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Sir , You must know I am a literary projector , and in common with most who have borne that character , have made many fruitless proposals to the public , and have sustained many bitter disappointments . There is one scheme , however , which I have yet to try ; and on which I beg have to take the sense of your readers : it is a Poetical Review , in which the sentences of criticism shall he set off with all the
attractions of verse . As the project is novel , I have chosen to make my first attempt in a version , and have selected for translation the Q curious extract , which you have given ( pp . J ) 2—94 ) from the Eclectic Review ; moved to this by my sympathy with the writer of that critique , (/ acit indignatio versum , ) and also by the ease with which I thought I
Xnight versify periods , which though not poetry are certainly not prose . How far I have succeeded , I must leave to your readers : — should the judgment of any of them be favourable to my publication , they will oblige me by sending in their names as subscribers , to the office of the United Theologico-Eclectic Booksellers , at the sign of Calvin ' s Head , in Tabernacle Walk . I am . Your Humble Servant .
^ POETICUS ECLECTICUSN . B . Evangelical preachers shall be supplied with the work gratis , on applying a , t the Office ; but to prevent imposition , none need to apply who have not got . the Assembly ' s Catechism so well by heart , as to bear dodging in it .
jNow , put in his sling , stone heretical vermin . Hypocritical birds ! he rifles your pinions . And , stript of false feathers , you ' re naked c Socinians . * There ' s that Academic , too well known to Fame , - ^ No friend to the Faithful , k Friend but in name , £ Who lighted a fire might-have dried uphold CamJ * Who clamour'd far Peace , and rajs'd a fierce war , Who pleaded for Union ^ and got driven afar , — That- Fellow I mean , deem'd for Jesus unholy , Who scar'd Alma Muter with ' s creed melancjioly : Now did not he JJualist call some believer ? A charge on the cRurcV from which 1 * 11 relieve her , For sure thi 3 bold Cantab , by logical rules , When he say ? I'm not wise , calls all mankind fools , When he says he knew one man two altars adore , praxes all men' bitf ; him with just wt fo $ * than four ,
, opecimen of a Poetic Eclectic Review * This book of friend Gregory ' s every where shows The spirit of Calvin towards Calvin ' s base foes ., 4 Abettors of simple humanity / wretches ! He detects your ' chicane * and exposes your fetches Mathematics Professor , Professor Eclectic , In school cool as ice , in the * Church' in a hectic , His calculi * now , all deep problems determine ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/66/
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