Excerpt from Celebrities I Have Known, Vol. 2 of 2: With Episodes, Political, Social, Sporting, and Theatrical

James Smith, one of the authors of the "Rejected Addresses, " the son of a solicitor to the Ordnance, was born in 1775. In 1802 he joined the staff of the "Pic-Nic" newspaper, which, after changing its name to the "Cabinet, " died the following year. In 1812 the two Smiths became famous by their inimitable parodies on the writings of Wordsworth, Cobbett, Southey, Coleridge, Crabbe, Byron, Theodore Hook, &c., Never was anything better hit off than the faults of Wordsworth, the savage scorn of Cobbett, the extravagance of theme and unwise experiments in rhythm of Southey, the dreamy indistinctness of Coleridge, the homely pathos of Crabbe, the poetical images of Byron, and the inexhaustible puns of Hook. The copyright originally offered to that "Anak of publishers, " as Byron called Mr. Murray, for twenty pounds, was purchased by him in 1819, Vol. II.

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