PoemsT. & J. Swords, 1801 - 159 Seiten |
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... rules to make a nation blest . O land thrice blest ! if to thine interests wise , Thy Senates learn this precious boon to prize , While guilty Europe's blood - stain'd empires fall , While heaven , incens'd , lets loose th ' infuriate ...
... rules to make a nation blest . O land thrice blest ! if to thine interests wise , Thy Senates learn this precious boon to prize , While guilty Europe's blood - stain'd empires fall , While heaven , incens'd , lets loose th ' infuriate ...
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... rules on royal minds impress'd , Monarchs might reign , and subjects would be bless'd ; Dantons and Robespierres had died unknown , And the mild CAPET still had grac❜d a throne . Behold the man , ye crown'd and ermin'd train ! And ...
... rules on royal minds impress'd , Monarchs might reign , and subjects would be bless'd ; Dantons and Robespierres had died unknown , And the mild CAPET still had grac❜d a throne . Behold the man , ye crown'd and ermin'd train ! And ...
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... rule , Excel in grave debate and reasonings cool ;. Impetuous minds , of more impassion'd form , " Ride in the whirlwind , and direct the storm : " Hence those in councils , these in arms excel , But few indeed are those who govern well ...
... rule , Excel in grave debate and reasonings cool ;. Impetuous minds , of more impassion'd form , " Ride in the whirlwind , and direct the storm : " Hence those in councils , these in arms excel , But few indeed are those who govern well ...
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... Rule your lines , as you write , with a pencil of lead , And when done rub them out with a morsel of bread ; Always write by a margin , I never could bear To see lines , like militia , stand hither and there . If you make a mistake , as ...
... Rule your lines , as you write , with a pencil of lead , And when done rub them out with a morsel of bread ; Always write by a margin , I never could bear To see lines , like militia , stand hither and there . If you make a mistake , as ...
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... rule us ; But if they fight , and challenge write , Why , Jonathan , they fool us . Yankee doodle , & c . There comes a day , our Parsons say , When these things shall be righted ; Though now the great can fight in state , While ...
... rule us ; But if they fight , and challenge write , Why , Jonathan , they fool us . Yankee doodle , & c . There comes a day , our Parsons say , When these things shall be righted ; Though now the great can fight in state , While ...
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Seite 136 - is " obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law, and " if he rightly understands his art, he will never be " a stupid atheist, nor an irreligious libertine.
Seite 36 - I. WHEN Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run, Sat down, drank off his quart, and said, " My work is done, I'll go to bed." " My work is done!" retorted Joan, " My work is done! your constant tone; " But hapless woman ne'er can say,
Seite 19 - throne. Behold the man, ye crown'd and ermin'd train! And learn from him the royal art to reign. No guards surround him or his walks infest, No cuirass meanly shields his noble breast; His the defence which despots ne'er can find, The love, the prayers, the interests of mankind. Ask ye what spoils his
Seite 117 - residing in the grantor's hands. Could man, what time the social pact he seal'd, Cede to the state a right he never held ? For all the powers which in the state reside, Result from compact, actual or implied. Too ~well the savage policy we trace To times remote,
Seite 120 - in a poisonous soil, If nurs'd by culture and assiduous toil, May wake to life and vegetative power, Protrude the germ and yield a fragrant flower: E'en thus may man, rapacious and unjust, The slave of sin, the prey of lawless lust, In the drear prison's gloomy round
Seite 20 - true, and faithful to the last, He turns—and urges, as his last request, Remote from power, his weary head to rest. Illustrious Man, adieu! yet, ere we part, Forgive our factions which have wrung thy heart; Still with indulgent eyes thy country see,
Seite 39 - haste, he fir'd the broom. The fire at last subdu'd, he swore The broom and he would meet no more. Press'd by misfortune, and perplex'd, Darby prepar'd for breakfast next; But what to get he scarcely knew— The bread was spent, the butter too. His hands bedaub'd
Seite 117 - of mankind? Say, by what right (one case exempt alone), Do ye prescribe that blood can crimes atone ? If when our fortunes frown, and dangers press, To act the Roman's part be to transgress; For man the use of life alone commands,
Seite 38 - At early dawn, ere Phoebus rose, Old Joan resum'd her tale of woes; When Darby thus—" I'll end the strife, " Be you the man and I the wife: " Take you the scythe and mow, while I " Will all your boasted cares supply." " Content, quoth Joan, give me my stint." This Darby did, and out she went. Old Darby rose and
Seite 123 - Twere wise in laws, 'twere generous to provide Some place where blushing penitence might hide; Yes, 'twere humane, 'twere godlike to protect Returning virtue from the world's neglect, And taunting scorn, which pierce with keener pains, The feeling mind, than dungeons, racks and chains: Enlarge their