Note 6 — REMONSTRANCE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. IN 1788, ON THE SARCASMS LEVELLED AT NATIONAL GRATITUDE IN THE TASK.[4]
Reading edition
l. 22. Bolt of sarcasm—See the invidious ridicule of the Stratford jubilee in the 6th Book of the Task, a poem whose descriptive powers are always admirable, and whose morality and piety are often sublime.