THE ETONIANS: W. M. Praed and H. N. Coleridge, Etonian, 1820

Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey were ‘Lake Poets,’ and their works of course ‘Lakish! ’ These Scotchmen were born with the malignity of Caligula, but purloined his wit as usual, and gave a collective name to destroy at once.