England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . A PATRIOT WORRIED. senting the patriot Wilkes, worried by two dogsone of which (that to the left) bears the features ofthe lexicographer, and the other, those of some otherwriter of the court-party, of the identity of whom weare less certain. Dr. Johnson, the general decrier of 1782.] THE LITERARY OWL. 387. talent in others, was by no means a favourite amongthe writers on the popular side in the great politicalwarfare of the last century, and he was made the sub-ject of a variety of caricatu
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . A PATRIOT WORRIED. senting the patriot Wilkes, worried by two dogsone of which (that to the left) bears the features ofthe lexicographer, and the other, those of some otherwriter of the court-party, of the identity of whom weare less certain. Dr. Johnson, the general decrier of 1782.] THE LITERARY OWL. 387. talent in others, was by no means a favourite amongthe writers on the popular side in the great politicalwarfare of the last century, and he was made the sub-ject of a variety of caricatures, most of them publishedat a later period than that of which we are now speak-ing. One of these, published on the 10th of March,1782, on the occasion ofthe prejudiced character ofsome of his lives of the En-glish poets, represents thedoctor, in the shape of anowl, standing upon the Lives of the Poets andthe Dictionary, and leeringat Milton, Pope, &c., whoare surrounded with starrvrays. It is entitled, OldWisdom blinking at thestars. Johnson himself partook violently in those strongpolitical prejudices which were the bane of literatureat the commencement of the reign of George III., andwhich then were felt still more injuriously, becausethey even influenced the judgment of the critics inthose new tribunals, the reviews, who too often pu-nished the political creed of the writer by speakingbitterl
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