Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political & Satirical Poems, Parodies and Jeux-d'esprit of the Right Hon. George Canning, the Earl of Liverpool, Marquis Wellesley, the Right Hon. J. H. Frere, G. Ellis, Esq., W. Gifford, Esq., and Others |
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Page 96 - human breast, Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,
Page 97 - Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. 0, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art seen), With thundering voice, and threatening mien, With screaming Horror's funeral cry,
Page 97 - her they vow their truth, and are again believed. Wisdom, in sable garb arrayed, Immersed in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend: Warm Charity, the general friend, With Justice, to herself severe,
Page 92 - but without date, or any other mark, By which we are enabled to guess at the particular subject of the composition. CHEVY CHASE.* God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all: A woeful story late there did In Britain's Isle befalL
Page 16 - Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college. For this act Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws! But time shall come, "When France shall reign, and laws be all repeal'd! THE
Page 155 - Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa Perfusus liquidis urguet odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro ? Cui flavam religas comam, Simplex Munditiis ■? Heu quoties fidem Mutatosque Deos flebit, et aspera Nigris eequora vends Emirabitur insolens, Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea; Qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem
Page 173 - VI. Sun, moon, and thou vain world, adieu, That kings and priests are plotting in : Here doom'd to starve on water gru— —el,* never shall I see the U— —niversity of Gottingen— —niversity of Gottingen. [During the last stanza
Page 172 - of Gottingen— —niversity of Gottingen. IT. This faded form ! this pallid hue ! This blood my veins is clotting in, My years are many—they were few When first I entered at the U— —niversity of Gottingen— —niversity of Gottingen. v. There first for thee my passion grew, Sweet! sweet Matilda Pottingen ! Thou wast the daughter of my tu— —tor, law professor at the TJ—
Page 173 - dashes his head repeatedly against the walls of his prison; and, finally, so hard as to produce a visible contusion ; he then throws himself on the floor in an agony. The curtain drops; the music still continuing to play till it is wholly fallen. A manifest error, since it appears from the Waiter's