Anna Laetitia Barbauld,
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr…
“ A blotted proof-sheet, wet from Bowling. —"How can a man his anger hold in?"— Forgotten times, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;— A mass of heterogeneous matter, A chaos dark, nor land nor water;— New books, like new-born infants, stand, Waiting the printer's clothing hand;— Others, a motley ragged brood, Their limbs unfashioned all, and rude, Like Cadmus' half-formed men appear; One rears a helm, one lifts a spear, And feet were lopped and fingers torn Before their fellow limbs were born ”
