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but did not have to deal
with so directly. But both Churchill and Robert Lloyd died before they could develop their styles to the point
that they had a newtimely statement to make. Anstey failed to develop beyond the
New Bath Guideand his
influence proved to be more important on the novel than on verse satire.
Evan Lloyd's first satire
The Powers of the Penis a clever but ordinary satire on good and bad writing. It has
some historical interest as an example of the early influence of Rousseau in Englandof part of the attack on
Samuel Johnson for his adverse criticism of Shakespeareof the influence of Churchill (Lloyd declared
himself a disciple)and of the expression of the fashionable interest in artlessness which was influenced as
much by Joseph Warton as by Rousseau. In a "quill shop" the narrator discovers magic pens which write like
various authors. The one whose "Mate was purchas'd by Rousseau" can:
Teach the Passions how to grow With native Vigour; unconfined By those vile Shackleswhich the Mind
Wears in the School of Art.... Yet will no Heresies admitTo gratify the
Pride of Wit (p. 30).
He advances these critical dicta elsewhere in this satirecondemning Johnson because he tries "Nature" by
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