...him in his poem of 'Retaliation.' ' And Douglas is pudding substantial and plain.' And again — ' Here Douglas retires from his toils to relax, The...the terror of quacks ; Come all ye quack bards, and quacking divines, Come and dance on the spot where your tyrant reclines. When satire and censure encircled...

...Douglas (Bp. from 1791 to 1807), mentioned in Goldsmith's " Retaliation" thus: — " Here Douglass retires, from his toils to relax, " The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks." This is an allusion to Douglas as the author of " Milton Vindicated from the charge of " plagiarism"...

...them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from himself ? Here Douglas retires, from his toils to relax, The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks : So Come, all ye quack bards, and ye quacking divines, Come, and dance on the spot where your tyrant...

...them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from himself ? Here Douglas retires, from his toils to relax, The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks : 80 Come, all ye quack bards, and ye quacking divines, Come, and dance on the spot where your tyrant...

...caught, Or wherefore his characters thus without fault? Say, was it that vainly directing his view 75 Here Douglas retires from his toils to relax, The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks: 80 Come, all ye quack bards, and ye quacking divines, Come, and dance on the spot where your tyrant...

...His services to truth and to literature are recorded by Goldsmith, among the characteristic epitaphs, in his " Retaliation." " Here Douglas retires, from...; The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks. — But now he is gone, and we want a detector, — New Landers and Bowers the Tweed shall cross over,...