Robert Lloyd (poet)

Robert Lloyd

Robert Lloyd (1733–1764) was an English poet and satirist.

Quotes

• Turn parson, Colman, that’s the way to thrive;
  Your parsons are the happiest men alive.
  • ‘The Law-Student’ (1762)

• Alone from Jargon born to rescue Law,
  From precedent, grave hum, and formal saw!
  To strip chicanery of its vain pretence,
  And marry Common Law to Common Sense!
  • ‘The Law-Student’ (1762) (on Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, 1756-88)

• True Genius, like Armida’s wand,
  Can raise the spring from barren land.
  While all the art of Imitation,
  Is pilf’ring from the first creation.
  • ‘Shakespeare’ (1762)