exclaiming (no plagiarism, we hope)

We with the sentence are indeed content,
To see _such_ princes in _such_ barrels pent.

And as a barrel is described by our best lexicographers to be "any thing
hollow," what vehicle more appropriate could be found? The ingenious
author, was surely a favourite of the barrel, and well acquainted with
the virtues of a _cask_; although according to sir Walter Raleigh, "some
are so ill-seasoned and conditioned that a great part of the contents is
ever lost and cast away."

Respecting Mr. Reynolds's indulgence of himself, in perpetual repetition
of his vocables,[18] we should be glad to have it in our power to affirm
that the _beef and mutton_[19] author was the only one who disgraced
himself by such contemptible degradation; but, alas! the pages of our
work have too often exhibited similar complaints against the majority of
our great playwrights--many of these _gentlemen_ being reduced to
silence, without their auxiliary _dammes_!

[Footnote 18: Damme, pooh, zounds, &c.]

[Footnote 19: "Authors have lived and still live who write for
what they call _fame_! --For my part I write for more substantial
food--_beef_ and _mutton_ are the objects of my ambition."
--_Reynold's Preface to Begone Dull Care._]

We differ widely from our author respecting Mr. T. Sheridan's
_stripping_ of Bonduca--for we really think it worthy the son of that
poet, who, neglecting his own genius and the duties of a regular
practitioner, condescends to turn quack, and bedizen that high German
doctor Pizarro, in an English dress!!

Apropos of awaking George Colman! --We beg the noble lord's pardon; but
we are not in such a violent hurry to disturb this gentleman; for if,
when awake, he should not acquit himself better than in his last
production of the Africans, we think the sounder he sleeps the more
solid will be his reputation. Therefore,

Sleep on, George Colman! prithee, don't awake!
Nor let the alarum bell thy slumbers shake!
Lest jokes like _Mugg's_[20] should make our senses quake!

[Footnote 20: One of Mr. Colman's witty characters in the
_Africans_.]

Why our author has coupled John Kemble's name with that of Garrick we
cannot conceive; but that there appears more rhyme than reason in it, we
can safely aver. We have somewhere heard that "a live ass is better than
a dead lion," which we quote, not as individually applicable, but as a
general adage; for we disclaim perso