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... Civil Discord o'er each troubled land , While Desolation marks her furious course , And thrones subverted bow beneath her force . Behold ! she pours her Monarch's guiltless blood , And quaffs with savage joy the crimson flood ; Then ...
... Civil Discord o'er each troubled land , While Desolation marks her furious course , And thrones subverted bow beneath her force . Behold ! she pours her Monarch's guiltless blood , And quaffs with savage joy the crimson flood ; Then ...
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... civil storms , the Roman Sage Repress'd Ambition's frantic scheme , And check'd the madding people's rage . III . Their country's peace , and wealth , and fame , With patriot zeal their labours sought , And Rome's or Athens ' honour'd ...
... civil storms , the Roman Sage Repress'd Ambition's frantic scheme , And check'd the madding people's rage . III . Their country's peace , and wealth , and fame , With patriot zeal their labours sought , And Rome's or Athens ' honour'd ...
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... things have neither beginning nor " end . " See Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield ; see also Mr. Knight's Poem on the Progress of Civil Society . 10 Or Chance o'er earth's green lap spontaneous fling The THE ANTI - JACOBIN . 73.
... things have neither beginning nor " end . " See Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield ; see also Mr. Knight's Poem on the Progress of Civil Society . 10 Or Chance o'er earth's green lap spontaneous fling The THE ANTI - JACOBIN . 73.
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... Civil Society , Book I. ver . 98 . Ver . 29. " An oyster may be cross'd in love . " - Mr . Sheri- dan's Critic . Ver . 34. Birds fly . Ver . 35. But neither fish , nor beasts - particularly as here exemplified . Ver . 36. The bear . Ver ...
... Civil Society , Book I. ver . 98 . Ver . 29. " An oyster may be cross'd in love . " - Mr . Sheri- dan's Critic . Ver . 34. Birds fly . Ver . 35. But neither fish , nor beasts - particularly as here exemplified . Ver . 36. The bear . Ver ...
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... Civil Society an exclusive patent for fabricating Didactic poems ? or can we not write against order and government , without incurring the guilt of imitation ? we trust we were not so ignorant of the nature of a didactic poem ( so ...
... Civil Society an exclusive patent for fabricating Didactic poems ? or can we not write against order and government , without incurring the guilt of imitation ? we trust we were not so ignorant of the nature of a didactic poem ( so ...
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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 delight Didactic Poems dread Duke e'er England English eyes fair fair Isle fame feelings fire flame France Freedom French Friend FRIEND OF HUMANITY Gallia German Guillotine hail hand head hear heart HIGGINS hope imitation Isle Jacobin King Knight Templar land Landlady laws Lepaux Liberty lines Matilda morals Morning Chronicle Muse Muskein niversity of Gottingen nymphs o'er passion patriot peace poet poetry praise principles Pudd Pudding field Puddingfield quæ rage Readers Rogero round Sapphic savage scene shore Sirmio smile song soul storm Sweet tell thee thine translation triumph Trou TROUBADOUR true truth verse virtue Waiter wave Weimar wild Young Pottingen
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Page 224 - 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 11 - Story? God bless you! I have none to tell, sir: Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish Stocks for a vagrant.
Page 143 - 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 10 - Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast ; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches. Weary Knife-grinder ! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, " Knives and Scissors to grind O!
Page 228 - Candour, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ; Candour, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white.
Page 18 - ... charity. The force of this prohibition, and the strictness with which it is observed, are strongly exemplified in the following poem. It is the production of the same author, whose happy effort in English Sapphics we presumed to imitate ; the present effusion is in Dactylics, and equally subject to the laws of Latin prosody.
Page 11 - Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit ? (Have you not read the " Rights of Man," by Tom Paine ?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Page 235 - 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, C dge and S — th — y, L — d, and L — b and Co. Tune all your mystic harps to praise Lepaux...
Page 230 - There were a few who laughed indeed, but that was thought hard-hearted, and immoral, and irreligious, and God knows what. Crying was the order of the day. Why will not the Opposition try these topics again ? La Fayette indeed (the more's the pity) is out. But why not a motion for a general...
Page 164 - Destroy the frame of society, decompose its parts and set the elements fighting one against another — insulated and individual — every man for himself (stripped of prejudice, of bigotry, and of feeling for others) against the remainder of his species; and there is then some hope of a totally new order of things, of a radical reform in the present corrupt system of the world.