Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 Seiten |
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... Reform , full of intolerable and vain conceit , sits smiling in the baby - house of his imagination , " pleased with a feather , tickled with a straw , " trimming the balance of power in the looking - glass of his own self - complacency ...
... Reform , full of intolerable and vain conceit , sits smiling in the baby - house of his imagination , " pleased with a feather , tickled with a straw , " trimming the balance of power in the looking - glass of his own self - complacency ...
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... Reform and Reformers , they have made him what they wish , a traitor and deserter from a cause that no man can serve ! This is just what they like they satisfy their malice , they have to find out a new leader , and the cause is to ...
... Reform and Reformers , they have made him what they wish , a traitor and deserter from a cause that no man can serve ! This is just what they like they satisfy their malice , they have to find out a new leader , and the cause is to ...
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... Reform , but broad is the way that leadeth to Corruption , and multitudes there are that walk therein . The Tory is sure to be in the thickest of them . His principle is to follow the leader ; and this is the infallible rule to have ...
... Reform , but broad is the way that leadeth to Corruption , and multitudes there are that walk therein . The Tory is sure to be in the thickest of them . His principle is to follow the leader ; and this is the infallible rule to have ...
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... day Odes . His flaming patriotism will easily subside into the gentle glow of grateful loyalty ; and the most extravagant of his plans of reform end in building castles in Spain ! V + MR . SOUTHEY'S NEW - YEAR'S ODE . . B 2 3.
... day Odes . His flaming patriotism will easily subside into the gentle glow of grateful loyalty ; and the most extravagant of his plans of reform end in building castles in Spain ! V + MR . SOUTHEY'S NEW - YEAR'S ODE . . B 2 3.
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... reform . How narrow was the father's mansion ! How diminutive the mind that could look with reverence to the beings that gave it birth , when the republic , sole heiress of philanthropy and freedom - the great republic , offered herself ...
... reform . How narrow was the father's mansion ! How diminutive the mind that could look with reverence to the beings that gave it birth , when the republic , sole heiress of philanthropy and freedom - the great republic , offered herself ...
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abuse admiration Allies answer better Bonaparte Bourbons Burke cause character Coleridge Commission of Government common consequences contempt Courier court divine right doctrine Duke of Wellington earth enemy equally evil favour feelings force Fouché France French Revolution genius give hands hates heart honour human imagination interest Jacobin John Ball justice King knaves labour Legitimacy liberty live Lord Castlereagh Lord William Bentinck Louis XVIII Malthus Malthus's mankind mind moral nation nature never object opinion Paris passions patriotism peace persons philosopher poet poetry political poor population prejudices present pretensions Prince principle Quarterly Review question reason reform Rehoboam reign religion renegado Robert Southey rotten boroughs sense sentiments shew slaves Southey Southey's spirit suppose Talleyrand taxes thing thought throne tion true truth understanding vanity Vetus vice and misery virtue Wat Tyler whole words wretched write
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Seite 142 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Seite 130 - And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke : my father hath chastised you with whips, but I « will chastise you with scorpions.
Seite 144 - What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I, Hamlet the Dane.
Seite xxxv - Chaste Matrons praise her, and grave Bishops bless: In golden Chains the willing World she draws, And hers the Gospel is, and hers the Laws: Mounts the Tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead!
Seite 130 - So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse : to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
Seite 138 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war — upon church and state — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world, and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Seite 255 - And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang...
Seite 138 - And for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and Philosophy had met together. Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion.
Seite 372 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 276 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.