Poems, Volumen2

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J. Wilkes, 1776
 

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Página 127 - But when in after-times (be far remov'd That day) our monarch, glorious and belov'd, Sleeps with his fathers...
Página 142 - Grown old in villany, and dead to grace, Hell in his heart, and Tyburn in his face...
Página 135 - Nor dare to traffic in ambitious strains; Bids her, indulging the poetic whim In quaint-wrought ode, or sonnet pertly trim, Along the church-way path complain with Gray, Or dance with Mason on the first of May!
Página 123 - I not ev'n to my lateft breath, In the full face of danger and of death, Exert that little ftrength which Nature gave, And boldly ftem, or perifh in the wave ? L.
Página 122 - tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, When she with more than tragic horror swells Each circumstance of guilt ; when stern, but true, She brings bad actions forth into review ; And, like the dread handwriting on the wall, Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call...
Página 137 - Kings had made thee more Than ever King a fcoundrel made before, Nay, to allow thy pride a deeper fpring, Tho...
Página 31 - He for Subscribers baits his hook, And takes their cash — but where's the Book ? No matter where — Wise Fear, we know, Forbids the robbing of a Foe ; But what, to serve our private ends, Forbids the cheating of our Friends ? No Man alive, who would not swear All's safe, and therefore honest there.
Página 120 - Patriots and ministers are much the same ; The only difference, after all their rout, Is, that the one is in, the other out.
Página 157 - Stripling, leflbn'd by his Sire, Knew when to clofe, when to retire, When near at hand, when from afar To fight, and was Himfelf a War.
Página 175 - But, having given all the sin, Forgot to put the virtues in. To run a horse, to make a match, To revel deep, to roar a catch, To knock a tottering watchman down, To sweat a woman of the town...

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