“If after ages grow more humaniz'd,
And present cruelty almost forgot;
How will the reader, shudd'ring, be surpris'd,
At living lobsters in a boiling pot.”

— Isaac Gompertz

Source: The Modern Antique; Or, The Muse in the Costume of Queen Anne (1813), "On the Same", p. 307

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“If after ages grow more humaniz'd,And present cruelty almost forgot;How will the reader, shudd'ring, be surpris'd,At living lobsters in a boiling pot.”

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“If after ages grow more humaniz'd,
And present cruelty almost forgot;
How will the reader, shudd'ring, be surpris'd,
At living lobsters in a boiling pot.”