Note 11 — REMONSTRANCE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. IN 1788, ON THE SARCASMS LEVELLED AT NATIONAL GRATITUDE IN THE TASK.[4]
Reading edition
l. 10. Is vice—The appropriation of those sums to charitable purposes which were collected at the Handelian commemorations, places the injustice of Cowper’s sarcasm upon a level with its absurdity, accusing them, as it does, of a profane and idolatrous tendency.