text: " Amid such outpourings of feculent folly it is scarcely worth our while to take notice of the minor offences against good taste that abound in these poems; yet we may remark that the writer who here condescends to use such a word as _clack_ and who on other occasions does not scruple to talk of _a repeat_ and _a repay_ instead of "a repetition " and "a repayment " does not consider the word _watch-dog_ sufficiently elevated for his compositions