No More Learning

The _Epitaph_ is of doubtful authenticity. ]



ON MOORE'S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA. [18]

GOOD plays are scarce,
So Moore writes _farce_:
The poet's fame grows brittle[i]--
We knew before
That _Little_'s Moore,
But now't is Moore that's _little_.

_September_ 14, 1811.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 295 (_note_). ]

FOOTNOTES:

[i] _Is fame like his so brittle_? --[_MS_. ]

[18] ["On a leaf of one of his paper books I find an epigram, written at
this time, which, though not perhaps particularly good, I consider
myself bound to insert. "--Moore, _Life_, p. 137, _note_ 1. The reference
is to Moore's _M. P. ; or, The Blue Stocking_, which was played for the
first time at the Lyceum Theatre, September 9, 1811. For Moore's _nom de
plume_, "The late Thomas Little, Esq.
," compare Praed's _The Belle of
the Ball-Room_--

"If those bright lips had quoted Locke,
I might have thought they murmured Little. "]



[R. C. DALLAS. ][19]

YES! wisdom shines in all his mien,
Which would so captivate, I ween,
Wisdom's own goddess Pallas;
That she'd discard her fav'rite owl,
And take for pet a brother fowl,
Sagacious R. C. Dallas.

[First published, _Life, Writings, Opinions, etc. _, 1825, ii. 192. ]

FOOTNOTES:

[19] ["A person observing that Mr. Dallas looked very wise on a certain
occasion, his Lordship is said to have broke out into the following
impromptu. "--_Life, Writings, Times, and Opinions of Lord Byron_, 1825,
ii. 191. ]



AN ODE[20] TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL.