The Man of Taste. Occasion’d by an Epistle of Mr. Pope’s on that subject.

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James Bramston (c. 1694–1743) was an English poet who specialised in satire and parody. He was also a pluralist cleric of the Church of England.

Bramston’s verses include The Art of Politics (1729), in imitation of Horace’s Ars Poetica, (“What’s not destroy’d by Time’s devouring Hand? Where’s Troy, and where’s the Maypole in the Strand?”) and The Man of Taste (1733), in imitation of Alexander Pope (“Sur loins and rumps of beef offend my eyes,/Pleas’d with frogs fricasseed and coxcomb pies.”) His Ignorami lamentatio super legis communis translationem ex Latino in Anglicum (1736), dedicated by “Ambi-dexter Ignoramus” to “Dulmannum”, satirizes lawyers. It is written in Dog Latin hexameters. He also parodied John Philips’s “The Splendid Shilling” in “The Crooked Sixpence”.