Macaronic Poetry

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Excerpt from Macaronic Poetry: Collected With an IntroductionThe reader who cares to make a laborious fiudy of the fubjeét, can find many fources ofcritical and bibliographical informationfi In pref the pages following, I have treated it, as, in deed, the Macaronic fhould be regarded, not as the literary folly of Mr. Hallam, but as fimply the paftime and relaxation of learned minds, and pretending to be nothing more. Francis Mahoney was one of the molt learned and able men Of his age, - a cardinal's hat was at his feet, had he chofen to lift it, . But he preferred rather to keep his learning and ability to himfelf, fcattering what little he al lowed to efcape him, in Sibylline leaves, like thofe I have tied together in this book, and achieving, by the little he wrote, what the younger Mr. Weller pronounced 'to be the great art 0' letter writing, making the peo ple with that he had written more.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.