Part 66

```Intoxication through the reeling sense

```Of flush’d enjoyment. In the motley host

```Three prime gradations may be rank’d: the first,

```To mount upon the wings of Shakspeare’s mind,

```And win a flash of his Promethean thought,

```To smile and weep, to shudder, and achieve

```A round of passionate omnipotence,

```Attend: the second, are a sensual tribe,

```Convened to hear romantic harlots sing,

```On forms to banquet a lascivious gaze,

```While the bright perfidy of wanton eyes

```Through brain and spirit darts delicious fire

```The last, a throng most pitiful! who seem,

```With their corroded figures, rayless glance,

```And death-like struggle of decaying age,

```Like painted skeletons in charnel pomp

```Set forth to satirise the human kind!

```How fine a prospect for demoniac view!

```‘Creatures whose souls outbalance worlds awake!’

```Methinks I hear a pitying angel cry.”=

Here we conclude. If our remarks give pain to Mr. Robert Montgomery, we are sorry for it. But, at whatever cost of pain to individuals, literature must be purified from this taint. And, to show that we are not actuated by any feeling of personal enmity towards him, we hereby give notice that, as soon as any book shall, by means of puffing, reach a second edition, our intention is to do unto the writer of it as we have done unto Mr. Robert Montgomery.

INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF ALLUSIONS

ABSOLUTE, Sir Anthony, a leading character in Sheridan’s play of The Rivals

A darker and fiercer spirit, Jonathan Swift, the great Tory writer (1667-1745)

Agbarus or Abgarus, the alleged author of a spurious letter to Jesus Christ. Edessa is in Mesopotamia

Alboin, King of the Lombards, 561-573, he invaded Italy as far as the Tiber

Alcina, the personification of carnal pleasure in the Orlando Furioso

Aldus, the famous Venetian printer (1447-1515), who issued the Aldine editions of the classics and invented italic type