Note 128 — SOME ACCOUNT OF SKELTON AND HIS WRITINGS.
Reading edition
“Satire should, like a polish’d razor, keen, Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen: Thine is an oyster-knife that hacks and hews,” &c. Verses addressed to the imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (the joint-composition of Lord Hervey and Lady M. W. Montagu).