A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,
Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean,
And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.

Of journalists

'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809)

Lord Byron Quotes

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods...

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods...

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods...

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods...