Coaching days and coaching ways . ow index-learning turns no student holds the eel of science by the tail;How, with less reading than makes felons scape,Less human genius than God gives an ape,Small thanks to France, and none to Rome or Greece,A past, vampd future, old, revised, new piece,Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shakespeare, and Corneille,Can make a Cibber, Tibbald, or Ozell. Which last, though far from a good rhyme, enshrines,I fear, our critics name for ever. For by Tibbald,I much regret to say, Theobald is meant. And whenTheobald read it, Ive no doubt he wished that Sitting-bourne
Coaching days and coaching ways . ow index-learning turns no student holds the eel of science by the tail;How, with less reading than makes felons scape,Less human genius than God gives an ape,Small thanks to France, and none to Rome or Greece,A past, vampd future, old, revised, new piece,Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shakespeare, and Corneille,Can make a Cibber, Tibbald, or Ozell. Which last, though far from a good rhyme, enshrines,I fear, our critics name for ever. For by Tibbald,I much regret to say, Theobald is meant. And whenTheobald read it, Ive no doubt he wished that Sitting-bourne had never- seen him. After leaving which town, forward the long reaches ofthe Dover Road stretch past Bapchild, past Radfield, pastGreen Street, where in the days of the Road at the Swanthe London coaches changed horses ; when all suchcoaching rites were celebrated as throat-lashing, tak-ing out the leaders, &c, &c, &c. And so on to Ospringe,where at the Red Lion horses were also kept, and a Camera THE DOVER ROAD 259. & 3><e!V flip! //^/l 3 1 iim I
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