Social Commentaries
On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Social Commentaries
His father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With--still to keep him in good case--
The health and appetite of Rizzo.
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Codex Note
February 20, 1818. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 134.
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