An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces: In Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection: with Several Pieces Never Before Published, Volumen1

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John Almon
J. Debrett, 1785 - 248 páginas
 

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Página 177 - Speaker well skilled, what no man reads to write, Sleep-giving poet of a sleepless night ; Polemic, politician, saint, and wit, Now lashing Madan, now defending Pitt : Thy praise shall live...
Página 15 - RONDEAU. BY two black eyes my heart was won, Sure never wretch was more undone...
Página 129 - Liberty-Wilkes, of oppression the hater, Call'da turncoat, a Judas, a rogue, and a traitor ! What has made all our patriots so angry and sore ? Has Wilkes done that now which he ne'er did before ? Consistent was John all the days of his life ; For he loved his best friends as he loved his own wife ; In his actions he always kept self in his view, Though false to the world, to John Wilkes he was true.
Página 214 - The tyranny of friendship, which would stamp Dishonour on the worthy, and forbid My free affections to direct their choice Where nature warrants, and my soul approves. [Exit, De Cour. [Alone.~\ Why then there's no perfection in the sex, Or I had found it here. Farewell to grief; So much for tears ! tho...
Página 250 - An Answer to that Part of the Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K..B. which relates to the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis, during the Campaign in North-America in the Year 1781.
Página 196 - Ah ! think what danger on debauch attends : Let Pitt, once drunk, preach temperance to his friends ; How as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason drowned in Jenkinson's champagne, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a Premier's for a robber's blood.
Página 78 - Take a man of great abilities, with a heart as black as his countenance. Let him possess a rough inflexibility, without the least tincture of generosity or affection, and be as manly as oaths and ill-manners can make him.
Página 78 - HOW TO MAKE A CHANCELLOR. Take a man of great abilities, with A heart as black as his countenance. Let him possess a rough inflexibility, without the least tincture of generosity or affection, and be as manly as oaths and ill manners can make him. He should be a man who will act politically with all parties, hating and deriding every one of the individuals which compose them.
Página 182 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Página 231 - The noble convert, Berwick's honour'd choice, That faithful echo of the people's voice, One day, to gain an Irish title glad^ For Fox he voted ; — so the people bade. 'Mongst English lords ambitious grown to sit, Next day the people bade him vote for Pitt. To join the stream, our patriot, nothing loath, By turns discreetly gave his voice to both.

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