Political VerseGeorge Saintsbury Macmillan, 1891 - 276 pages |
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Agrippa d'Aubigné Bishop Boldly I preach boys brave Burgage Church country's court crimes Curs'd curse dear dumpling e'er ears English ev'ry eyes fair fame fear feel fierce fire foes fools France freedom FRIEND OF HUMANITY GEORGE SAINTSBURY glory grace hand hast hate hath hear heart Heaven honour Hume Jacobin JONATHAN SWIFT Justice King labours land LAPUTA laugh laws Lero lero Liberty Lilli burlero live Lord majesty MATTHEW PRIOR mind monarch morals Muse ne'er never O'Brine o'er Old wine once patriot Pett Pitt political verse praise pride proud rage reason reign RICHARD GLOVER Rolliad sacred saints satire scorn shame Shannon shore sleep soul spirit statesmen sure Sweet sword taught tears thee thine things thou thought tongue Tory true truth Twas Twill Virtue whate'er Whig WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED wise zeal
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Page 38 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 68 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 66 - For resistance I could fear none, But with twenty ships had done What thou, brave and happy Vernon, Hast achieved with six alone. Then the Bastimentos never Had our foul dishonour seen, Nor the sea the sad receiver Of this gallant train had been. ' Thus, like thee proud Spain dismaying, And her galleons leading home, Though condemn'd for disobeying, I had met a traitor's doom ; To have fallen, my country crying, He has play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying, Of a griev'd and broken...
Page 149 - Both must be blamed, both pardon'd ; — ''twas just so " With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; " So Walpole, Pulteney ; — factions in all times, " Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend...
Page 122 - 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 82 - O friend and father of the human mind, Whose art for noblest ends our frame design'd ! If I, though fated to the studious shade Which party-strife, nor anxious power invade...
Page 145 - 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 124 - ... 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 151 - Not his the love in silent groves that strays, Quits the rude world, and shuns the vulgar gaze. In Lodoiska's full possession blest, One craving void still aches within his breast...
Page 66 - Bello's ruin You now triumph free from fears, When you think on our undoing, You will mix your joy with tears.