(...) It is to be feared nothing short of actual cautery can recover the numerous patients afflicted with the present prevalent and distressing rabies for rhyming. - As to the Edinburgh Reviewers, it would indeed require an Hercules to crush the Hydra; but if the author succeeds in merely 'bruising one of the heads of the serpent,' though his own hand should suffer in the encounter, he will be amply satisfied.
Lord George Gordon Byron,
English bards and scotch reviewers,
A satire,
Preface.
In: Collected poems, Ed. Penguin classics
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