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PJ.783.027
22 Feb 1783:23 (1568)
Anecdote of Colley Cibber. Cibber being at court (when Poet
Laureat) a few days before the birth-day, Col. B-- (who had
a pension upon the Irish establishment) sarcastically asked
Colley what his Ode would turn upon, as the year had been
very barren of subjects for poetical flights? "Well,
Colonel, " replied Cibber, "I have a number of court locusts
in my eye, who are always very plentiful, and, I hope, in
such a dearth of other objects, to give them a flight even
beyond Parnassus."
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