Prose and Verse Author:Thomas Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW 1814—1834. LORD THURLOWS POEMS.- [september 1S14.] Our modern heroes, poetical as well as military, are e... more »ndowed with a rapidity of motion and achievement which keeps gazettes and reviews continually on the alert. Indeed, so difficult do we critics find it to keep pace with the ' celeritas incredibilis' of some of our literary Caesars, that we think it would not be amiss if each of these poetical chieftains had a Reviewer appointed expressly, aupres de sa personne, to give the earliest intelligence of his movements, and do justice to his multifarious enterprises. The Poems of Lord Thurlow—whose prowess in thisway is most alarmingly proved by the list prefixed to this article—come graced and recommended to notice by two or three very imposing considerations. In the first place, the rank of the writer is not without its prepossessing influence ;—' a saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn :'—and we could name but one noble Bard, among either the living or the dead, whose laurels are sufficiently abundant to keep the coronet totally out of sight. Lord Thurlow himself seems fully aware of this advantage ; and we are not quite sure that he did not mean a sly allusion to it, in the following motto from Shakespeare prefixed to one of these volumes— 1 Poems on Sereral Occasiont. By Edward, Lord Thurlow. Second Edition. Svo. pp. 349. London, 1S13. Moonlight, a Poem, with xereral Colries of Verses. By Edward, Lord Thurlow. 4to. pp. 75. London, 1S14. The Doge's Daughter, a Poem; with sceeral Translations from Anacreon and Horace. By Edward, Lord Thurlow. Svo. pp. 66. London, 1S14. Ariadne: A Poem in Three Parti. By Edward, Lord Thurlow. 8vo. pp. 5S. London, 1S14. [Jeffrey writes to Moore,' Edinburgh, September 14, 1S14:...« less