The Court and Parliament of Beasts: Freely Translated From the Animali Parlanti of Giambattista Casti; A Poem in Seven Cantos
William Stewart Rose
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(Forgotten Books, Feb. 10, 2017)
Excerpt from The Court and Parliament of Beasts: Freely Translated From the Animali Parlanti of Giambattista Casti; A Poem in Seven CantosThe Court Of Beasts.'Tis much the same with my poetic venture:The "fundamental feature" 's ready plann'd.My Lion, like the lady's eat i' the centre,- My Lion with his court - by other hand.But for the arabesque which skirts the picture,This is my own, and so fair field for stricture.But lest those, who know nothing of the matter,Should think, that I distort the real story,In order to indulge myself in satire,I solemnly beseech of Whig or Tory,To turn to my original, when doubting:Ex gra. for alien act and Ourangoutang.Casti's accus'd, 'tis true, of personality,And painting cubs of Petersburgh and Naples,Yet is, in fact, so free from all locality,That his best portraits will be always staples,In every country, papal or heretic.So true it is, that Genius is prophetic.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.