"Fat flattens the most brilliant thoughts, / Like the buff-stop on harpsichords, or spinets-- / Muffling their pretty little tuneful throats, / That would have chirp'd away like linnets."
Ode V [from Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians]
14 entries in ESTC. Collection expanded from 1782 to 1790; see also <u>More Lyric Odes</u>. Hits in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795).
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The first eight odes published as <u>Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians. By Peter Pindar, a Distant Relation to the Poet of Thebes.</u> (London: Printed for the author, and sold by T. Egerton, Charing Cross; Baldwin, Pater-Noster Row; and Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T4197">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3312995295&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; [This ode doesn't appear in this 1782 edition]
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See <u>Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians, for M,Dcc,Lxxxii. by Peter Pindar, a Distant Relation of the Poet of Thebes.</u>, 5th ed., enlarged (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, No. 46, Fleet-Street; and W. Forster, No. 348, near Exeter-Change, in the Strand, 1787). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW116631772&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</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).