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Excerpt from The Regency Question: Being a Re-Publication of Papers Written During His Majesty's Illness, in the Year 1788; With a New Preface
The evanescence of party writing is a proverbial truth. Easy and buzzing, the general fate of party writers resembles the fate (y the wasp; ive flutter in the blaze; and, having exhausted our stings, soon fall forgotten not often leaving any more durable memorials of our labour, than is iejt by those reptiles, whose oenoin alone preserves a momentary recollection of their noisy, noxious, existence.
Or if it happen that, among the race that write' upon passing politics, there be, who, straying from the beaten track, maintain the conflict, not unmixed with some; good nature, still, the perishableness of their productions is not altered by their abberrations towards benevolence. With a scant chance of the li/e tabconic in every author's creed, ' the party-writer mav find his grati fication in the bubble vanity, or in the meagre contingency (j lucre - for immortality-he lives to little purpose.
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