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Let clear - ey'd Reason at the helm preside , Bear to the wind , or stem the furious tide ; Then mirth may urge , when reason can explore , This point the way , that waft us glad to shore . Though distant times may rise in Satire's page ...
Let clear - ey'd Reason at the helm preside , Bear to the wind , or stem the furious tide ; Then mirth may urge , when reason can explore , This point the way , that waft us glad to shore . Though distant times may rise in Satire's page ...
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Forgive my transports on a theme like this , I cannot bear a French metropolis . a Illustrious EDWARD ! from the realms of day , The land of heroes and of saints survey ; Nor hope the British lineaments to trace , The rustic grandeur ...
Forgive my transports on a theme like this , I cannot bear a French metropolis . a Illustrious EDWARD ! from the realms of day , The land of heroes and of saints survey ; Nor hope the British lineaments to trace , The rustic grandeur ...
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Quick let us rise , the happy seats explore , And bear oppression's insolence no more . This mournful truth is every where confessid , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY Depress's : But here more slow , where all are slaves to gold , Where ...
Quick let us rise , the happy seats explore , And bear oppression's insolence no more . This mournful truth is every where confessid , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY Depress's : But here more slow , where all are slaves to gold , Where ...
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... Direct thy rivulets , and twine thy bow'rs ; And , while thy beds a cheap repast afford , Despise the dainties of a venal lord . There every bush with nature's music rings , There every breeze bears health upon On all thy hours ...
... Direct thy rivulets , and twine thy bow'rs ; And , while thy beds a cheap repast afford , Despise the dainties of a venal lord . There every bush with nature's music rings , There every breeze bears health upon On all thy hours ...
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... heat Strips him of genial cheer , and snug retreat . How aukward now he bears disgrace and dirt , Nor knows the poor's last refuge , to be pert . The shiftless beggar bears of ills the worst , At 50 Epist . IV . EPISTLES SATIRICAL.
... heat Strips him of genial cheer , and snug retreat . How aukward now he bears disgrace and dirt , Nor knows the poor's last refuge , to be pert . The shiftless beggar bears of ills the worst , At 50 Epist . IV . EPISTLES SATIRICAL.
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Page 12 - Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from Letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
Page 14 - Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 13 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait : Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost : He comes : nor want nor cold his course delay.
Page 6 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 29 - Yet e'en these heroes, mischievously gay, Lords of the street, and terrors of the way; Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine ; Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach, And shun the shining train and golden coach.
Page 18 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...
Page 27 - Has heaven reserv'd, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscover'd shore; No secret island in the boundless main? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by SPAIN? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear oppression's insolence no more.
Page 18 - Implore his aid ; in his decisions rest Secure; whate'er he gives, he gives the best...
Page 21 - Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Page 8 - And gain and grandeur load the tainted gales ; Few know the toiling statesman's fear or care, Th' insidious rival and the gaping heir.