English poem
NUMBER XIX. A certain Lawyer observed that calf skin properly shaved would make good paper
by Charles Prentiss (1774–1820)
The tho't indeed, says Dick, is not so dull; Well, shave your chin and all your paper skull.
More by Charles Prentiss
- NUMBER X. On PETER PINDAR
- NUMBER XII. ON THE QUESTION—WHAT IS BEAUTY. [The thoughts from Voltaire.]
- NUMBER XIII. On RUM DRINKING
- NUMBER XIV. On SHAKESPEARE
- NUMBER XVI. To a Poet with clouts on
- NUMBER XVII. [TYPOGRAPHICAL.] To the same
- NUMBER XX. On a man of a full purse and empty heart
- NUMBER XXIII. On a slovenly Poetaster, who observed that all good poets were slovenly and poor