Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution, in four cantos / By Christopher Caustic [pseud].

  • Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution, in four cantos / By Christopher Caustic [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vu trenibllog poet feared might have been his doscj inculcates a hope of a survival of the affray, •without a broken heart through his own chagrhu •however ^reat his danger of a broken head through the chagrin of othei^s. Thus far I had proceeded in remarks, which are applicable to this second edition only, and hesitated some time, before I resolved on the expedience of pursuing my observations, and off lering something like an explanation of the mo¬ tives, which led to the present publication. This delay has enabled me to mention a third review of the first edition (by the British Critic), Like the former two it has indulged Dr. Caustic with encomiums on his ^ ingenious burlesque,* his ^ humorous notes,’ his happy ludicrous com- ^ pounded rhymes, and many other qualities to ‘ insure no trifling success in doggrel verse,* &c. but, like iiselj] it has honoured Mr. Perkins wdth a torrent of abuse and malicious falsehood. To have hoped, by any thing that might be said in this Introduction, to alter the conduct of those, against whom the animadversions contained in the Poem are directed, would be vain. Others, however, who seek after truth with more disin¬ terestedness, and with whom truth, when knowai, may be subservient to some good effect, may