George CanningE.P. Dutton, 1903 - 185 pages |
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Page 10 - ISLES OF GREECE' ] THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 30 - Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast ; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches. Weary Knife-grinder ! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, " Knives and Scissors to grind O!
Page 158 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent.
Page 30 - Was it the squire? or parson of the parish? Or the attorney? "Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit? "(Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Page 86 - Though short thy span, God's unimpeach'd decrees, Which made that shorten'd span one long disease, Yet, merciful in chastening, gave thee scope For mild, redeeming virtues, Faith and Hope; Meek Resignation ; pious Charity ; And, since this world was not the world for thee, Far from thy path removed, with partial care, Strife, Glory, Gain, and Pleasure's flowery snare, Bade Earth's temptations pass thee harmless by, And fix'd on Heaven thine unaverted eye...
Page 138 - Spain, such as our ances-' tors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain
Page 31 - Story ? God bless you ! I have none to tell, sir : Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables came up for to take me into Custody ; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish Stocks for a vagrant. I should be glad to drink your honour's health in A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence ; But for my part, I never love to meddle With politics, sir.
Page 33 - Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton when at college.
Page 29 - No — through the extended globe his feelings run As broad and general as the unbounded sun! 40 No narrow bigot he; — his reasoned view Thy interests, England, ranks with thine, Peru! France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, But heaves for Turkey's woes the impartial sigh; A steady Patriot of the World alone, The friend of every country — but his own.
Page 81 - ... the water like a giant rejoicing in his course, — stemming alike the tempest and the tide ; — accelerating intercourse, shortening distances, — creating, as it were, unexpected neighbourhoods and new combinations of social and commercial relations, — and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness of waves the certainty and steadiness of a highway upon the land...