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INAUGURAL ODE TO THE AUTHOR OF

"VANITY FAIR."*

1.

Ours is a faster, quicker age:

Yet erst in Goldsmith's homely Wakefield Vicarage,
While Lady Blarney, from the West End, glozes
'Mid the Primroses,

Fudge! cries Squire Thornhill,

Much to the wonder of young greenhorn Moses.
Such word of scorn ill

Matches the "Wisdom Fair" thy whim proposes
To hold in Cornhill.

2.

With Fudge, or Blarney, or the "Thames on Fire;"
Treat not thy buyer;

But proffer good material

A genuine Cereal,

Value for twelvepence, and not dear at twenty.
Such wit replenishes thy horn of plenty.

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Of aught that smacks of sect, surplice, or synod,

Be thy grain winnow'd!

Nor deign to win one laugh

With empty chaff.

*The "Cornhill Magazine," January, 1860. Reprinted by permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.

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INAUGURAL ODE TO THE AUTHOR OF VANITY FAIR."

Shun aught o'er which dullard or bigot gloats;

Nor seek our siller

With meal from Titus Oates,

Or flour of Joseph Miller.

6.

There's corn in Egypt still

(Pilgrim from Cairo to Cornhill !),

Give each his fill.

But, all comers among,

Treat best the young;

Fill the big brothers' knapsacks from thy bins,
But slip the cup of Love in Benjamin's.

Next as to those

7.

Who bring their lumbering verse or ponderous prose
To where good Smith and Elder

Have so long held their
Well-garnished Cornhill storehouse—

Bid them not bore us,

Tell them instead

To take their load next street, the Hall of Lead!

8.

Only one word besides.

As he who tanneth hides

Stocketh with proper implements his tannery;
So thou, Friend! do not fail

To store a stout corn-flail,

Ready for use, within thy Cornhill granary.
Of old thou walk'd abroad,

Prompt to right wrongs, Caliph Haroun al Rashid:
Deal thus with fraud,

Or Job, or Humbug-thrash it!

9.

Courage, old Friend! long found
Firm at thy task, nor in first purpose fickle:
Up! choose thy ground,

Put forth thy shining sickle ;

Shun the dense underwood
Of Dunce or Dunderhood;

But reap North, South, East, Far West.
The world-wide Harvest !

573

INDEX.

ABELARD, on the mistletoe, 279.
Adrian's death-song, new version of, 112.
Aerolite, the Blarney Stone an, according
to Lardner, 65.

Ainsworth, author of "Rookwood," 403,
519, 569.

Anacreon, 226.

Andrés, "Storia di ogni Letteratura," 290.
Angel (the) of Poetry, to L.E.L., 313.
Animal spirits, 378.

Anne Chovy a heroine, 20.

Anne (Queen) accused of tippling, 258.

Arachne the nymph, Ireland compared to,

121.

Ariosto quoted, 48.
Aristotle quoted, 53.
Aristophanes quoted, 296.
Ausonius cited, 108.

Autobiography the rage, 301; that of Bé-
ranger, ib.

Avignon, seat of the muses, 208; of the
popedom, ib.; visited by Prout, 324.

B.
Bacon an admirer of Jesuit colleges, 179.
Barcarolle, "O pescator," 355.
Barry the painter, 321, 489, 498.
Bellew (Jack), editor of the "Cork Chro-
nicle," 75; his song, 88.

Bells-the "Shandon Bells," 159; Victor
Hugo on the bells of Paris, 158.
Benedict XIV. (Prosper Lambertini) sends
Voltaire his blessing, 321.
Béranger, eulogy of, 210.
Song of Brennus, ib.

Song of the Cossack, 214.

Ode to Lardner, 221.

Song of Diogenes, 223.

Le Pigeon Messager, 224.

The Dauphin's Birth-day, 241.

Recollections of Bonaparte, 248.
The Tri-coloured Flag, 251.

The Painter's Funeral. a Pem, 270.

Les Etoiles qui filent, 281.

Les Bohémiens, 293.

Le Dieu des bonnes Gens, 297

Le Grenier, 299.

Le T'ailleur et la Fée, 301.

L'Ange exilé, 313.

Beza, Theodore, 550; lines by, 558.
Black broth, 16.

Black earth, μελαινα χθων (Melancthon,

$6.

Black Prince, 13.

Blarney, Castle of, 35; plundered by the
Danes, 87; song of Jack Bellew there-
upon, 88; stormed by Oliver Cromwell,
as per song, 100.

Blarney, Groves of, in English, French,
Greek, Latin, and Irish, 56; a contro-
verted point in the song, 84.

Blarney Stone, true history of, 50.
Blessington (Lady), her "Conversations
of Byron," 31.

Blindman's buff, origin of, 265.
Blomfield, Bishop, 1.

Boëthius de Consolatione Philosophicâ,
203.

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Calvinists popular at Billingsgate, 12.
Campbell (Tom) bound in Morocco, 343;
his second sight, 346.
Campbell, his "Hohenlinden" done into
Latin, 92.

Carew, Molly (Ang. et Lat.), 487.
Carnival and Ash Wednesday, 3.
Cervantes fought at Lepanto, 353.
Charlemagne, capitularies of, 217.
Charles V. visits the tomb of Bachelen,
the first herring-barreller, 21.
Charles XII. of Sweden, his portrait in
Blarney Castle, 90.

Chateaubriand (Comtesse de), her song,
"Va où la gloire t'invite," 147; le Vi-
comte de, a poem by, 256.

Chaucer, and Froissart, 239; copies from
Petrarch, 240; complaint of, 241; Gri-
seldis, 245.

Chrysostom, his remark in preaching
from a ship, 81; is abused by Tom
Moore, 144; breaks out in fine style,
204; an elegant metaphor from, 83.
Cicero, 104; a plagiarist, 136; quoted, 235,
260, 263, 304, 315.

Corbet, the great Munster dentist, 78;
resembles Scarron and Cadmus, ib.;
song, "the Ivory Tooth," 93.

Cornelius a Lapide, 6, 135, 169, 177, 181,
200, 501.

Cresswell, Frank, his forced observance of
Lent, 5.

Cresswell, Lady, 4.

Crichton, the Admirable, 519, 564, 565.
Crofton Croker well acquainted with
Watergrasshill, 5; discovers the ety-
mology of "Blarney," 35; also the like-
ness of a fried egg to a daisy, 99; ac-
count of Shandon steeple, by, 159.
Cromwell, a canting thief, 358; storms
Blarney Castle, 56, 100.
Crusades, 43, 207.

D.

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Father Tom, 499.

F.

Fathers, Moore's attack on the, 143.
Fiddler's (the French) Lamentation, a
song, 276.
Filicaia's Italia! Italia! "To prostrate
Italy," 330; II Mose di Michel Angelo:
"Statue, whose giant limbs," 332.
Fisherman, Masaniello a, 20; the Apostles
were fishermen, 10; "O pescator," 355.
Foundling Hospital at Cork, reflections
on, 125.

Dagobert, song about, 217; educated in Fracastor, Jerome, 546.
Ireland, 218.

Danae, lament of, 130.

Dante dissuaded by the monks of Bobbio
from writing in Latin, 323; his "Porch
of Hell," 336; his terza rima, 335.
Danube, lines on the, 47.

Dauphin, why so called, 16; in usum Del-
phini, Jesuits' editions, 176; song on
the Dauphin's birth-day, 241.
David the painter, a regicide, 270; the
funeral of. a poem by Béranger, ib.
Deane, Sir Thomas, knight and builder,
87, 89.

De la Vigne (Casimir), his "Dog of the
Three Days," a ballad, 277.
Democritus cited, 114.
Demosthenes quoted, 347.
Denis (St.) walked headless five miles, 288.
Denis Diderot, Denis Lardner, Denis the
critic, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, 288,
289.

France, Prout's travels through, 5, 108,
204; language of, how essential, 236;
influence of French writers on those of
England, ib.; Songs of, 201, 231, 257,
287; adieu to the Songs of, 313.
Free-trade, theory of, 292.
Frogs, French food, 12; quotation from
Aristophanes, 266.

Froissart a priest, 239; sketch of, ib.

G.

Ganganelli a rogue, 186, 320; interview
with, 509.

Garret (the) of Béranger, 299.
Gaul, landing of the Phoceans in Gallia
Narbonensis described, 291; planting of
the vine in, 210.
Geese, a panegyric on, 283.
Germanic confederacy of quacks and
dunces, 341.

God (the), of Béranger, a deistical poem,

297.

Goderich (Lord), known as a goose, 189.
Goldsmith in France, 205; robs a French-
man, 237; and a French lady, Madm.
Blaise, ib.

Good dry Lodgings, a song by Diogenes,
223.

Griselda, original Norman ballad of, 245.
Guy d'Arezzo, his narrative, 349.
Gypsies, political economy of the, a song,
by Béranger, 293.

H.

Hardouin's discoveries, 138, 139; and his
epitaph, 140.

Hastings, battle of, 13.

Hayes (Joe), master-spirit of the Glen
distillery, 72; his worm never dies, ib.
Herbert, his Nimrod, 145.
Herbert, George, 430.

Herrings-la journée des harengs, 13; sale
of, in Greece, 17; warlike food, 20;
foundation of Amsterdam laid on her-
ring-bones, 21.

Homer quoted, 39, 66, 80, 108, 220, 247, 263.
Horace, Songs of, 370, 393, 415, 435, 459.
Horace cited, 9, 12, 18, 63, 79, 97, 102, 126,
131, 139, 184, 201, 318, 322, 327, 397, 550.
Hudibras, 15.

Huns, cookery of the, 15; king of the, 215,
318.

Huss (John), anecdote concerning, 289.

I.

Irish exports, their chief item, 25.

Irish names, 75.

Italy, Songs of, 315, 342.

J.

Knapp, may of Cork, a foe to mad dogr
38; the knapp's sack, 86; Prout's fos
ter.brother, 155.

L.

Ladies, three cheers for the, 5.
Lake Leman, its attractions, 551.
Lamartine, a poem by, on the exile of
Manoël, 272.

Lame heroes and writers, 175.
Landon (Miss), gives her name to a frozen
lake, 133; lines addressed to, 314.
Larduer (Dr Denis), a compiler, 31; a
man of letters, 50, 83; never visited
Blarney, 63; his purgatory, 66; his
tract on the potato, 83; ideas on astro
nomy, 132; Béranger's Ode to, 221.
Larry, "The night before Larry was
stretched," a song, 267.

Laura, Prout in love with, 346.
Lee, Nat, the dramatist, 114.
Leipsic, the annual book-fair of, 342.
Lent, apology for, 9; old as Tertullian, 10;
traced to Lentulus, 18.

Leonidas, not president of a beef-steak-
club, 17.

Lepanto, song on the battle of, 353.
Literary renegades, punishment for, 358.
Loyola (Don Ignacio de), an old soldier,
has a leg shattered at Pampeluna, 173;
his chivalrous vigil at Montserrat, 174.
lame heroes, 175.

Lucan (Pharsalia, v. 28), 208.
Lucretius quoted, 114.

M.

Macrobius quoted, 81.

Madness, thoughts on, 110; mad authors,
115.

Maginn, Dr., a literary embalmer, 516.
Malbrouck, song of, 219; effects of, or
South Sea Islanders, 221.

James I., a patron of Scotch herrings, 11. Marchangy, "la Gaule Poetique," 206.
Jeffers, Lady, 35.

Jerome (St.) quoted, 136, 238.
Jesuits, massacre of, at Madrid, 164; ever
in hot water, 165; not understood by
Robertson, 168; Cerutti's "Apologie,"
171; Gresset's "Adieux," 172; founded
by an old soldier, 173; Institutum Soc.
Jesu, 175; rapid progress of, 176; dis-
tinguishable from other monks, ib.; ratio
studiorum, 178; their pupils, 179; their
learned men, 180, 182; their ill-treat-
ment, 183; their missions, ib.; conduct
during the plague at Marseilles, 185;
fell like the Templars, 183; defence of,
509.

Juvenal cited, 18, 203, 236, 345.

K.

Kidnappers, cat-o'-nine-tail-villains, 135.
Kingsborough's (Visct.) "Mexican Anti-
quities," 344; mulberry plantation on
tate of, 517.

Margaret, Prout's servant, 72; song i
honour of, 98; makes the punch to
strong, 345.

Marot (Clement), poem by, 253.
Marseillais hymn, original of, 253.J.
Martial quoted, 81.
Martineau, Harriet, able to defend her.
self, 141.
Masaniello, 20.

Mazarin, a saying of Cardinal, 287.
Medical theories in verse, 546, 547.
Melancthon's real name, 86.
Mensini's "Il Capro," "There's a goat ic
the vineyard !" 359.
Michel Angelo, his "Statue of Moses,"
his "Farewell to Sculpture," "al cro-
cifisso," 366.

Miller (Joe), Josephus Molitor, 213.
Millevoye, a true poet 254; La Chute
des Feuilles," 255; "Priez pour moi,"
a ballad, 227.

Modern Latin poets, 513.

Moore's "Let Erin remember the days o

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