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... rage of the town . How easily they lent themselves to ridicule , to ludicrous parodies of their style , to burlesque travesties of their sentiments , their incidents and their characters , must have been obvious to any mischievous ...
... rage of the town . How easily they lent themselves to ridicule , to ludicrous parodies of their style , to burlesque travesties of their sentiments , their incidents and their characters , must have been obvious to any mischievous ...
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... rage , " The people's prayer , the glad diviner's theme , " The young men's vision , and the old men's dream , “ Thee Saviour , thee the nation's vows confess , 210 220 230 240 rical " And never satisfied with seeing bless : " 10 ...
... rage , " The people's prayer , the glad diviner's theme , " The young men's vision , and the old men's dream , “ Thee Saviour , thee the nation's vows confess , 210 220 230 240 rical " And never satisfied with seeing bless : " 10 ...
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... sudden vengeance from the ground , " The prostrate vulgar passes o'er and spares , 66 But with a lordly rage his hunters tears ; 420 430 440 450 " Your case no tame expedients will afford , " 16 ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL . PART I.
... sudden vengeance from the ground , " The prostrate vulgar passes o'er and spares , 66 But with a lordly rage his hunters tears ; 420 430 440 450 " Your case no tame expedients will afford , " 16 ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL . PART I.
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... rage . 1010 " Then let them take an unresisted course ; " Retire and traverse , and delude their force : " But when they stand all breathless , urge the fight 1020 " And rise upon them with redoubled might : " 32 ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL ...
... rage . 1010 " Then let them take an unresisted course ; " Retire and traverse , and delude their force : " But when they stand all breathless , urge the fight 1020 " And rise upon them with redoubled might : " 32 ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL ...
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... rage must your presumption since inspire , 66 Against his orders your return from Tyre ? " Nor only so , but with a pomp more high 66 And open court of popularity , " The factious tribes ” . " And this reproof from thee ! " The Prince ...
... rage must your presumption since inspire , 66 Against his orders your return from Tyre ? " Nor only so , but with a pomp more high 66 And open court of popularity , " The factious tribes ” . " And this reproof from thee ! " The Prince ...
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Page 19 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 8 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest.
Page 15 - I contemn, (But manly force becomes the diadem. 'Tis true he grants the people all they crave, And more perhaps than subjects ought to have: For lavish grants suppose a monarch tame And more his goodness than his wit proclaim. But when should people strive their bonds to break, If not when kings are negligent or weak...
Page 87 - And in his father's right and realm's defence, Ne'er to have peace with wit nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;
Page 9 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes : How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will: Where crowds can wink ; and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Page 6 - Nor interest made the factious crowd to join: The sober part of Israel, free from stain, Well knew the value of a peaceful reign; And looking backward with a wise affright Saw seams of wounds dishonest to the sight, In contemplation of whose ugly scars They cursed the memory of civil wars.
Page 19 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 8 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 9 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...
Page 32 - From plots and treasons heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave, God cannot grant so much as they can crave. What then is left, but with a jealous eye To guard the small remains of royalty?