Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin [by G. Canning and others].1801 |
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... doubt a noble passion : it can hardly be necessary to mention , that its operation extends to Freemen , and them only , all over the world . The old poet was a warrior , at least in imagination ; and sung the actions of the heroes of ...
... doubt a noble passion : it can hardly be necessary to mention , that its operation extends to Freemen , and them only , all over the world . The old poet was a warrior , at least in imagination ; and sung the actions of the heroes of ...
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... doubt that our Readers will agree with us , in hoping that this may not be the last contribution which we shall receive from the same hand . PARENT of countless crimes , in headlong rage , War with herself see frantic Gallia wage ...
... doubt that our Readers will agree with us , in hoping that this may not be the last contribution which we shall receive from the same hand . PARENT of countless crimes , in headlong rage , War with herself see frantic Gallia wage ...
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... doubt of their skill To change laws at their will ? - You shall hear how they treated their own . ' Twas their pleasure to look , In a little THE ANTI - JACOBIN . 43 Song, recommended to be sung at all convivial Meetings, convened for ...
... doubt of their skill To change laws at their will ? - You shall hear how they treated their own . ' Twas their pleasure to look , In a little THE ANTI - JACOBIN . 43 Song, recommended to be sung at all convivial Meetings, convened for ...
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... doubts remain'd : —we yet were unreviled . Thanks to thy zeal ! those doubts at length are o'er ! Thy suffrage crowns our wish ! -- we ask no more But softer numbers softer subjects fit : - In liquid phrases thrill the praise of Pitt ...
... doubts remain'd : —we yet were unreviled . Thanks to thy zeal ! those doubts at length are o'er ! Thy suffrage crowns our wish ! -- we ask no more But softer numbers softer subjects fit : - In liquid phrases thrill the praise of Pitt ...
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... doubt , not metaphorically , but literally , " stripping the dead of their leaden coffins , and then making them ( not the DEAD , but the COFFINS ) into bullets . " — A circumstance per- fectly notorious at the time the book was written ...
... doubt , not metaphorically , but literally , " stripping the dead of their leaden coffins , and then making them ( not the DEAD , but the COFFINS ) into bullets . " — A circumstance per- fectly notorious at the time the book was written ...
Common terms and phrases
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!