The Mohawks: A Satirical Poem with NotesHenry Colburn, 1822 - 164 pages |
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... mighty feet is . Sov'reign distributor of Places , Of Pensions , Sinecures , and Graces ; The friend of Emperors and Kings , Lord of all men and of all things ; And ( what our tongue is much the better for ) Great autocrat of words and ...
... mighty feet is . Sov'reign distributor of Places , Of Pensions , Sinecures , and Graces ; The friend of Emperors and Kings , Lord of all men and of all things ; And ( what our tongue is much the better for ) Great autocrat of words and ...
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... mighty Duke of b - ms , whose weight Inclines to either side the state ; Nor fail , in turn , to seek the quarters Of t'other Duke 13 of bombs and mortars , To beg a share of that protection , He lavish'd with so much affection , On ...
... mighty Duke of b - ms , whose weight Inclines to either side the state ; Nor fail , in turn , to seek the quarters Of t'other Duke 13 of bombs and mortars , To beg a share of that protection , He lavish'd with so much affection , On ...
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... mighty pleasant game to play , Lording it bravely over the democracy , They caged and gagg'd who dared but doubt their sway ; If to resist there lived a madman so crazy , Full soon the piper was he made to pay : - To silence him some ...
... mighty pleasant game to play , Lording it bravely over the democracy , They caged and gagg'd who dared but doubt their sway ; If to resist there lived a madman so crazy , Full soon the piper was he made to pay : - To silence him some ...
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... mighty service to the nation , The source of his success , is defamation . Is there , whose turncoat zeal more fiercely glows , Whose renegado rage no measure knows , Whose wild intolerance , whose new born grace ( Flashing conviction ...
... mighty service to the nation , The source of his success , is defamation . Is there , whose turncoat zeal more fiercely glows , Whose renegado rage no measure knows , Whose wild intolerance , whose new born grace ( Flashing conviction ...
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... worth , and high desert Stand inaccessible , they fling their dirt ' Gainst all relations to the fourth degree , And not the dead from their attacks are free.76 Nothing's too mighty , nothing too obscure , The onslaught 86 THE MOHAWKS .
... worth , and high desert Stand inaccessible , they fling their dirt ' Gainst all relations to the fourth degree , And not the dead from their attacks are free.76 Nothing's too mighty , nothing too obscure , The onslaught 86 THE MOHAWKS .
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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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