The Mohawks: A Satirical Poem with NotesHenry Colburn, 1822 - 164 pages |
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... calumny ! CXV . Time was , when our reviewers , something critical , Talk'd about books , and really read their pages ; Gave too of their contents an analytical Account - the faithful mirrors of their ages : But now , more bold , or ...
... calumny ! CXV . Time was , when our reviewers , something critical , Talk'd about books , and really read their pages ; Gave too of their contents an analytical Account - the faithful mirrors of their ages : But now , more bold , or ...
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... calumny . Who slanders with his pen would wield a knife , And he who stabs your fame , would take your life , " But that , of wholesome law's restraints afraid , He sticks to lying as the safer trade : - Lying , the ready talent of a ...
... calumny . Who slanders with his pen would wield a knife , And he who stabs your fame , would take your life , " But that , of wholesome law's restraints afraid , He sticks to lying as the safer trade : - Lying , the ready talent of a ...
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... calumny to swell ; No spring of action pow'r has left untried , And ev'ry spring its quota has supplied ; - Hate , rage and envy , jealousy , and fear , Ambition , avarice , and pride are there . Mitres suspended o'er the parson's brow ...
... calumny to swell ; No spring of action pow'r has left untried , And ev'ry spring its quota has supplied ; - Hate , rage and envy , jealousy , and fear , Ambition , avarice , and pride are there . Mitres suspended o'er the parson's brow ...
Page 102
... calumny ; The o'ercharg❜d weapon on themselves recoils , And gaols , not mitres , pay their useless toils . ) Lo ! C - n - g , glutted with the people's wealth , Thinks upon India , and still writes by stealth . Str - t , whose long ...
... calumny ; The o'ercharg❜d weapon on themselves recoils , And gaols , not mitres , pay their useless toils . ) Lo ! C - n - g , glutted with the people's wealth , Thinks upon India , and still writes by stealth . Str - t , whose long ...
Page 104
... calumny , may tamely yield . So frighted Truth shall fly the darken'd land , And Liberty forsake her fav'rite strand ! England , on Austria's model work'd , shall know , No laws , save those from loyal lips which flow ; 86 So C - t ...
... calumny , may tamely yield . So frighted Truth shall fly the darken'd land , And Liberty forsake her fav'rite strand ! England , on Austria's model work'd , shall know , No laws , save those from loyal lips which flow ; 86 So C - t ...
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Page 77 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 131 - C'est ainsi qu'autrefois les annalistes barbares de l'Europe comptaient parmi les rois de France un Pharamond, et son père Marcomir, et des rois d'Espagne, de Suède, d'Ecosse, depuis le déluge. Il faut avouer que l'histoire , ainsi que la physique , n'a commencé à se débrouiller que sur la fin du xvi* siècle.
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