"A head of wax should never court the sun."
Nil Admirari; or, a Smile at a Bishop; Occasioned by an Hyperbolical Eulogy on Miss Hannah More, by Dr. Porteus, in His Late Charge to the Clergy
3 entries in ESTC (1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Nil Admirari; or, a Smile at a Bishop; Occasioned by an Hyperbolical Eulogy on Miss Hannah More, by Dr. Porteus, in His Late Charge to the Clergy. Also, Expostulation; or, an Address to Miss Hannah More. Miss Hannah Has No Eagle Wing to Flee, Whom Thus Thine Adulation Would Besool; Alas! a Poor Ephemeren Is She; a Bumming Native of a Bristol Pool. Likewise, Duplicity, or the Bishop; and Simplicity, or the Curate: a Pair of Tales. Moreover, an Ode to the Blue-Stocking-Club. and, Finally, an Ode to Some Robin Red-Breasts in a Country Cathedral. to Which Is Prefixed, an Engraving of the Author. By Peter Pindar, Esq.</u> (London: Printed by W. and C. Spilsbury, Snow-Hill, for West and Hughes, No 40, Paternoster-Row, and sold by all the Booksellers, 1799). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T9178">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Peter Pindar</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).