"Kilderkin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one way, to dulness 'tis inclin'd: Which makes thy writings lean, on one side, still; And in all changes, that way bends thy will. Not let thy mountain-belly make pretence Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou art but a kilderkin of wit. Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep; Thy Tragic Muse gives smiles, thy Comic sleep. With whate'er gall thou sett'st thyself to write, Thy inoffensive satires never bite. In thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various |
