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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Les champignons du diable; or, Imperial mushrooms: A mock-heroic poem, in five cantos: Including a Conference between the Pope and the Devil, on his Holiness's visit to Paris: illustrated with notes. By the editor of "Salmagundi," and "The Wiccamical Chaplet," &c. &c."
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Literary Period:
"French Revolution"
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Date: 1805
"There, as those cells [Satan's myrmidons] empty found / Where brains in wiser pates abound, / They fill'd them with mephitic gas / From hell, which downward strove to pass, / But, gaining exit through the throat, / By leave of porter, Epiglott, / Vented itself in fustian storm / Rhetorical."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)