The Times' Whistle: Or, A New Daunce of Seven Satires: And Other Poems, Ausgabe 12;Ausgabe 20;Ausgabe 48;Ausgabe 84

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Joseph Meadows Cowper
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Seite xvii - Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Seite xix - Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night ! View here the blood that trickles from mine arm, And let it be propitious for my wish.
Seite x - Now come we to the wonderment Of Christendom, and eke of Kent, The Trinity ; which to surpass, Doth deck her spokesman by a glass : Who, clad in gay and silken weeds, Thus opes his mouth, hark how he speeds. " I wonder what your grace doth here, Who have expected been twelve year...
Seite xx - The world's eye-bleared with those shameless lies, Mask'd in the show of meal-mouth'd poesies. Go, daring Muse, on with thy thankless task, And do the ugly face of Vice unmask : And if thou canst not thine high flight remit, So as it might a lowly satire fit, Let lowly satires rise aloft to thee : Truth be thy speed, and Truth thy patron be.
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Seite xiii - With my wife only to take the ayre, it being very warm and pleasant, to Bowe and Old Ford: and thence to Hackney. There light, and played at shuffle-board, eat cream and good cherries: and so with good refreshment home.
Seite xiii - Benevolent, generous, and spirited in his public character ; sincere, amiable, and affectionate in private life ; correct, eloquent, and ingenious as a poet ; 4 he appears to have deserved and enjoyed through life the patronage and friendship of the great, and the applause and estimation of the good."5 Such was the man ; and his character seems perfectly consistent with the theory that he wrote these Satires and Poems. It now remains to present portions of Corbet's acknowledged writings, that the...
Seite xxxii - And though they sweepe theyr hearths no less Then maydes were wont to doe, Yet who of late for cleaneliness, Finds sixe-pence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old abbies, The Fanes lost command ; They did but change priests...
Seite xxiii - twere better: for of such To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise. What can his censure hurt me, whom the world Hath censured vile before me ! If good...

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