The State Triumvirate: A Political Tale ; the Epistles of Brevet Major Pindar PuffSeymour, 1819 - 215 páginas |
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Página 140 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
Página 144 - Libyan cities goes. Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows — Swift from the first ; and every moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings. Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size ; Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies.
Página 142 - When he had once provided for his safety by impenetrable secrecy, he had nothing to combat but truth and justice, enemies whom he knows to be feeble in the dark. Being then at liberty to indulge himself in all the immunities of invisibility; out of the reach of danger, he has been bold; out of the reach of shame, he has been confident.
Página 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Página 142 - Junius has sometimes made his satire felt, but let not injudicious admiration mistake the venom of the shaft for the vigour of the bow.
Página 179 - I will converse with iron-witted fools And unrespective boys : none are for me That look into me with considerate eyes : 30 High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.
Página 139 - Not with more glee, by hands pontific crown'd, With scarlet hats wide- waving circled round, Rome in her Capitol saw Querno sit, 1 (/) is Throri'd on seven hills, the Antichrist of wit.
Página 115 - ... increase, when science gives to every object that surrounds you, intelligence and life.— When the very earth, on which you tread becomes animate, when every rock, every plant, every insect' presents to your view an organization so wonderful, so varied, so complex; an adaptation of means to ends, so simple, so diversified, so extensive, so perfect, that the wisdom of man shrinks abashed at the comparison. Nor is it to present existences that our observations are confined.
Página 115 - The mind may thus be enabled to retrace the march of ages — to examine of the earth the revolutions that have formed and deranged its structure — of its inhabitants, the creation, the dissolution, the continual reproduction — to admire that harmony which, while it has taught each being instinctively to pursue the primary objects of its creation, has rendered them all subservient to secondary purposes.
Página 33 - What ? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the church, or guardians of the laws ? Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain Flatterers and bigots e'en in Louis...