{"id":"01KG8AKRPEY0G5NS9T0WCF6JA8","cid":"bafkreie6xtt4bfv5ificscgpq3gtjsaleajfgurlmh37f3lwobgwjdcuyu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5773,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:14.842Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 9","source_file":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","start_line":5745,"text":"Indeed, throughout, the work abounds with quaint poetical quotations,\r\nand old-fashioned classical allusions to the Aeneid and Falconer’s\r\nShipwreck.\r\n\r\nAnd the anonymous author must have been not only a scholar and a\r\ngentleman, but a man of gentle disinterestedness, combined with true\r\ncity patriotism; for in his _“Survey of__ the Town”_ are nine thickly\r\nprinted pages of a neglected poem by a neglected Liverpool poet.\r\n\r\nBy way of apologizing for what might seem an obtrusion upon the public\r\nof so long an episode, he courteously and feelingly introduces it by\r\nsaying, that _“the poem has now for several years been scarce, and is\r\nat present but little known; and hence a very small portion of it will\r\nno doubt be highly acceptable to the cultivated reader; especially as\r\nthis noble epic is written with great felicity of expression and the\r\nsweetest delicacy of feeling.”_\r\n\r\nOnce, but once only, an uncharitable thought crossed my mind, that the\r\nauthor of the Guide-Book might have been the author of the epic. But\r\nthat was years ago; and I have never since permitted so uncharitable a\r\nreflection to insinuate itself into my mind.\r\n\r\nThis epic, from the specimen before me, is composed in the old stately\r\nstyle, and rolls along commanding as a coach and four. It sings of\r\nLiverpool and the Mersey; its docks, and ships, and warehouses, and\r\nbales, and anchors; and after descanting upon the abject times, when\r\n_“his noble waves, inglorious, Mersey rolled,”_ the poet breaks forth\r\nlike all Parnassus with:—\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 9"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJRM0AKT1HBDD19XJYXXB","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKRPENZZGRXKVMVNM162A","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKRPEPX2KCZGYEAR7YPGR","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.054Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:29.480Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}