I should not have published these verses, if a clerical pioneer had not been hired to throw this rubbish at me
Contributors: Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, Earl of, 1756-1829
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Durham, Eng
Language: eng
Other titles: Thy load of erudition who can bear?
Notes: Caption title; text continues: To the Reverend Francis Egerton; on his astonishing edition of the second Hippolytus of Euripides; in which edition, his Latin notes are larded, or rather loaded, with many most superfluous, and ostentatious quotations, from Greek, Hebrew, Persick, Arabick, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese authors.

Poems in four stanzas; signed at end: Percival Stockdale, Bow-Lane, Durham, Thursday, April 18th, 1799.

First line of poem: Thy load of erudition who can bear?

ESTC N474756