_Namby-Pamby_ (Vol. viii., pp 318. 390.).--Henry Carey, the author of
_Chrononhotonthologos_, and of _The Dragoness of Wantley_, wrote also a
work called _Namby-Pamby_, in burlesque of Ambrose Phillips's style of
poetry; and the title of it was probably intended to trifle with that
poet's name. Mr. Macaulay, in his Essay on _Addison and his Writings_,
speaks of Ambrose Phillips, who was a great adulator of Addison, as--
"A middling poet, whose verses introduced a species of composition
which has been called after his name, _Namby-Pamby_."