Characters of the Court: A Poem with NotesMunday and Slatter, 1816 - 24 頁 |
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第 13 頁
... mighty mind no shame has e'er opprest , No sense of honour ever warm'd his breast ; From youth to age , his calculating soul No love , save that of lucre , could controul ; He always follows , where his interest leads ; Nor minds the ...
... mighty mind no shame has e'er opprest , No sense of honour ever warm'd his breast ; From youth to age , his calculating soul No love , save that of lucre , could controul ; He always follows , where his interest leads ; Nor minds the ...
第 19 頁
... mighty plunder to his heir ; ' The end is answered of his eastern reign , And no one sure has reason to complain . But hold , methinks I hear the reader say , Why this abuse ? your heedless anger stay , Nor dare attack the faults of ...
... mighty plunder to his heir ; ' The end is answered of his eastern reign , And no one sure has reason to complain . But hold , methinks I hear the reader say , Why this abuse ? your heedless anger stay , Nor dare attack the faults of ...
第 20 頁
... mighty Peers , So be more prudent , and consult your fears : You aim too high - to humble scenes retire , To lash the great no poet should aspire . Fain , gentle reader , would I change my strain , Nor leave the courtier reason to ...
... mighty Peers , So be more prudent , and consult your fears : You aim too high - to humble scenes retire , To lash the great no poet should aspire . Fain , gentle reader , would I change my strain , Nor leave the courtier reason to ...
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Adorned alike arts bend bestowed blest breast BYRON catalogue Catholics character congenial contempt COURT Courtiers crimes dare Descends devoid disgrace Duke dullest e'er Earl early promise Fain fame fate faults fear flatterer folly fool forgot former days fortune fraught gain gentle grace greet Grove H-se Hail happier heaven heir honour hoped House humble injured knave known Laureat Lord master maxim mighty mind morocco MUNDAY AND SLATTER muse's nation's neglected Newmarket noble Lord's noble Personage numbers obsequious friend offend Peer perhaps petty pledge plunder poem Poet Pope Princes prize profligate rank reader reason to complain reign Ribbon ruined satire satire's bard scape scorn seeks shame sing slave soul spleen stain street succeeds taste throne titled transaction tread trembling truly truth turf Unmoved vainly varied various means verse vice Vicious Vide villain villainies virtue void wealth wish worn-out wretch youth
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第 19 頁 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
第 11 頁 - Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~
第 19 頁 - Sydney Smith is to the tribes of Noodledom, with his irony, his jeering, and his felicitous illustrations. It is his pre-eminently to abash those who are case-hardened against grave argument, and to wring the withers of the very numerous and respectable class, who " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone.