The Beauties of Churchill, Containing All the Celebrated Poems, Band 3

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Lister, 1782
 

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Seite 30 - And strictly weighs, in apprehension clear, Things as they are, and not as they appear. With thee good-humour tempers lively wit ; Enthron'd with judgment, candour loves to sit, And nature gave thee, open to distress, A heart to pity, and a hand to bless.
Seite 39 - WAR, imprison'd in the north, Shall, at our call, in horrid pomp, break forth, And when, his chariot wheels with thunder hung, Fell Discord braying with her brazen tongue, Death in the van, with...
Seite 31 - Or by vaft debts of higher import bound, Are always humble, always grateful found, If they, directed by PAUL'S holy pen, Become...
Seite 87 - PROUD Buckingham, for law too mighty grown, A patriot dagger prob'd, and from the throne Sever'd its minion. In...
Seite 59 - Rather than trust his morals to a Monk — Monks we all know — We, who have liv'd at home, From fair report, and Travellers, who roam, More feelingly — nor...
Seite 30 - And, injured by one alien, rail at all; On northern Pisgah when they take their stand, To mark the weakness of that Holy Land, With...
Seite 64 - Till they, by Pride corrupted, for the sake Of singularity, disclaim'd that make; Till they, disdaining Nature's vulgar mode, Flew off, and struck into another road, More fitting Quality, and to our view Came forth a species altogether new, Something we had not known, and could not know, Like nothing of God's making here below; Nature exclaim'd with wonder — 'Lords are things, Which, never made by me, were made by kings.
Seite 68 - Just at that time of life, when man by rule, The fop laid down, takes up the graver fool; He started up a fop, and, fond of show, Look'd like another Hercules turn'd beau...
Seite 30 - The fierce North-Briton foaming at their head, Pour forth invectives, deaf to candour's call, And...

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