Namby Pamby …<\/b><\/p>\n
Namby Pamby is a term for affected and weak speech and verse. Pollyanna talk, rose-tinted fluff.<\/p>\n
Ambrose Philips (aka Namby Pamby) was an English poet and playwright who in 1714 became tutor to George I’s grandchildren. The position gave him a status amongst the aristocracy and he took the opportunity to advance his place in society by writing sycophantic sentimental poems in praise of their children.<\/p>\n
Thou, thy parents pride and care,<\/span> … and so on.<\/p>\n His contemporaries attacked his work as childish and weakly sentimental. And playing off his name gave him his nickname: Namby Pamby.<\/p>\n Its origins are in Namby Pamby a poem written in 1725 by Henry Carey.<\/span><\/p>\n All ye Poets of the Age!<\/span><\/p>\n All ye Witlings of the Stage!<\/p>\n Learn your Jingles to reform!<\/p>\n Crop your Numbers and Conform:<\/p>\n Let your little Verses flow<\/p>\n Gently, Sweetly, Row by Row:<\/p>\n Let the Verse the Subject fit;<\/p>\n Little Subject, Little Wit.<\/p>\n Namby-Pamby is your Guide;<\/p>\n Albion’s Joy, Hibernia’s Pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Namby Pamby … Namby Pamby is a term for affected and weak speech and verse. Pollyanna talk, rose-tinted fluff. Ambrose Philips (aka Namby Pamby) was an English poet and playwright who in 1714 became tutor to George I’s grandchildren. The position gave him a status amongst the aristocracy and he took the opportunity to advance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFairest offspring of the fair<\/span>
\n…<\/span>
\nWhen again the lambkins play,<\/span>
\nPretty sportlings,full of May<\/span><\/p>\n