Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin [by G. Canning and others].1801 |
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... Country , MDCCXCVIII . Ode to the Director Merlin - The Rovers ; or the Double Arrangement The Rovers ; or the Double Arrangement , continued An affectionate Effusion of Citizen Muskein , to Havre - de - Grace Translation of a Letter ...
... Country , MDCCXCVIII . Ode to the Director Merlin - The Rovers ; or the Double Arrangement The Rovers ; or the Double Arrangement , continued An affectionate Effusion of Citizen Muskein , to Havre - de - Grace Translation of a Letter ...
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... country , in strains which " made " Ambition Virtue , " and which overwhelmed the horrors of war in its glory . The Jacobin poet would have no objection to sing battles too -but he would take a distinction . The prowess of Buonaparte ...
... country , in strains which " made " Ambition Virtue , " and which overwhelmed the horrors of war in its glory . The Jacobin poet would have no objection to sing battles too -but he would take a distinction . The prowess of Buonaparte ...
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... country's glory : When Britain calls , her valiant sons Will rush in crowds to aid her- Snatch , snatch your muskets , prime your guns , And crush the fierce invader ! Whilst every Briton's song shall be , " O give us death - or victory ...
... country's glory : When Britain calls , her valiant sons Will rush in crowds to aid her- Snatch , snatch your muskets , prime your guns , And crush the fierce invader ! Whilst every Briton's song shall be , " O give us death - or victory ...
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... Country , love our King , Adore our Constitution ; For these we'll every danger face , And quit uor rustic labours ; Our ploughs to firelocks shall give place , Our scythes be changed to sabres ; And clad in arms , our song shall be ...
... Country , love our King , Adore our Constitution ; For these we'll every danger face , And quit uor rustic labours ; Our ploughs to firelocks shall give place , Our scythes be changed to sabres ; And clad in arms , our song shall be ...
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... country's ruin ; And night and morn our song shall be , " O give us death - or victory ! " V. When , with French blood our fields manured , The glorious struggle's ended , We'll sing the dangers we've endured , The blessings we've ...
... country's ruin ; And night and morn our song shall be , " O give us death - or victory ! " V. When , with French blood our fields manured , The glorious struggle's ended , We'll sing the dangers we've endured , The blessings we've ...
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Abbey All-Fours ANTI-JACOBIN arms atque Author Ballynahinch band Beef Beefington blood brave breast Britain British CANTO Casimere Cecilia charms Chepstow Castle Count Benyowsky Count of Weimar Country's crimes DACTYLICS Didactic Poems Duke e'er England English eyes fair fair Isle fame feelings fire flame France Freedom French FRIEND OF HUMANITY Gallia German Guillotine hand head hear heart HIGGINS hope imitation Isle Jacobin King Knife-grinder Knight Templar land laws Lepaux Liberty Matilda morals Morning Chronicle Muse Muskein niversity of Gottingen Number nymphs o'er patriot Peace poet poetry praise principles Pudd Pudding field Puddingfield quæ rage rapine Readers Rogero round Saint Sapphic savage scene shore Sirmio smile song soul storm sweet tell thee thine Thou think'st amiss translation triumph Trou Troubadour true truth verse virtue Waiter wave Weimar wild Young Pottingen
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Page 234 - No — through the extended globe his feelings run As broad and general as the unbounded sun! 4o No narrow bigot he\ — his reasoned view Thy interests, England, ranks with thine, Peru! France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, But heaves for Turkey's woes the impartial sigh; A steady Patriot of the World alone, The friend of every country — but his own.
Page 17 - ... and glad the heart of the poor sufferer. — But no such thing — the Bard very calmly contemplates her situation, which he describes in a pair of very pathetical stanzas; and after the following well-imagined topic of consolation, concludes by leaving her to Providence. Thy husband will never return from the war again ; Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as Charity, Cold are thy famished babes — God kelp thee, widow'd one!
Page 149 - O navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus ! o quid agis ? fortiter occupa portum ! nonne vides ut nudum remigio latus et malus celeri saucius Africo 5 antennaeque gemant ac sine funibus vix durare carinae possint imperiosius aequor?
Page 186 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
Page 142 - There oft — returning from those green retreats, Where fair Vauxhallia decks her sylvan seats ; — Where each spruce nymph, from city compters free, Sips the froth'd syllabub, or fragrant tea ; While with sliced ham, scraped beef, and burnt champagne, Her 'prentice lover soothes his amorous pain ; — There oft, in well-trimm'd wherry, glide along Smart beaux and giggling belles, a glittering throng : Smells the tarr'd rope — with undulation fine Flaps the loose sail — the silken awnings shine...
Page 230 - Sappho's diamonds with her dirty shift, 20 Blunt, Charteris, Hopkins, — meaner subjects fired The keen-eyed Poet ; while the Muse inspired Her ardent child, — entwining, as he sate, His laurell'd chaplet with the thorns of hate.
Page 96 - God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woeful hunting once there did In Chevy Chase befall...
Page 3 - She scream'd for fresh geneva. Not to her Did the blithe fields of Tothill, or thy street, St. Giles, its fair varieties expand, Till at the last, in slow-drawn cart, she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? SHE WHIPP'D TWO FEMALE PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE; for her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline.
Page 190 - Stella," a German (or professedly a German) piece now much in vogue, from which, also, the catastrophe of Mr. Higgins's play is in part borrowed, so far as relates to the agreement to which the ladies come, as the reader will see by and by, to share Casimere between them. The dinner scene is copied partly from the published translation of the " Stranger," and partly from the first scene of
Page 246 - Couriers and Stars, sedition's evening host, "Thou Morning Chronicle and Morning Post, "Whether ye make the Rights of Man your theme, "Your country libel, and your God blaspheme, "Or dirt on private worth and virtue throw, "Still, blasphemous or blackguard, praise Lepaux! "And ye five other wandering bards that move "In sweet accord of harmony and love, "Coleridge and Southey, Lloyd and Lamb, and Co. "Tune all your mystic harps to praise Lepaux!