We knew before

That Little's Moore,

But now't is Moore that's little.

 September 14, 1811. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 295 (note).] 

FOOTNOTES:

[i] Is fame like his so brittle?—[MS.] 

[i]

[18] ["On a leaf of one of his paper books I find an epigram, written at this time, which, though not perhaps particularly good, I consider myself bound to insert."—Moore, Life, p. 137, note 1. The reference is to Moore's M.P.; or, The Blue Stocking, which was played for the first time at the Lyceum Theatre, September 9, 1811. For Moore's nom de plume, "The late Thomas Little, Esq.," compare Praed's The Belle of the Ball-Room— 

[18]

"If those bright lips had quoted Locke,

I might have thought they murmured Little."]

[R. C. DALLAS.][19]

Yes! wisdom shines in all his mien,

Yes

Which would so captivate, I ween,

Wisdom's own goddess Pallas;[13]

[13]

That she'd discard her fav'rite owl,

And take for pet a brother fowl,

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