Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1779.04.20

Return to Database Home Page
Index Entry Lyric, topical [beg] You! -write blank verse? Heav'ns; 'tis scarce prose! 
Location Portsmouth 
Citation
NHG-P.779.009
20 Apr 1779:22 (2/61)
TO THE AUTHOR OF A NEW-FASHION'D KIND OF VERSE. . .
You! -- write blank verse? Heav'ns; 'tis scarce prose!
[My] contempt shall blot the strains out,
Time the dull Sonneteer disclose,
Great Shakespeare pluck thee by the nose;
And Milton beat thy brains out.


Generic Title New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth 
Date 1779.04.20 
Publisher Fowle, Daniel 
City, State Portsmouth, NH 
Year 1779 
Bibliography B0024386
Return to Database Home Page
© 2010 Colonial Music Institute