The Devil's Spadeful; a Traditional PoemSamuel Danks, printer, 1839 - 36 Seiten |
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ADAM CLARKE'S Anne's told twelve beam'd Bewdley town Bigot Bridge-House stood bright Burns carefully put carried from Stromboli's Cobbler cunning and insidious DEVIL'S SPADEFUL drink your mugs ENEMIES OF BEWDLEY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD excelling in knowledge fill'd FIVE ENGRAVINGS FRIEND OF BEWDLEY GENTLE READEr GEORGE GRIFFITH go to drink ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE lame lengthen'd chime Literary LOAD STREET look'd MDCCCXXXIX merry Milton's Paradise Lost mirth moon Mug House fireside mugs Don't stop ne'er night nightly greeted o'er old beer OLD BRIDGE old Nick once the Bridge-House Pandemonium Poet PREFACE AND NOTES public houses quoth the devil reach'd at last river SAMUEL DANKS Satan SICILY Snob Snob Tom soon Spadeful of clay sped spot where once stagg'ring stooping down carefully stop to finish STROMBOLI Stromboli's height sup In Tom's swig Tee-totallers thou throng Tom's open mouth TRADITIONAL POEM twelve in lengthen'd vows whiskey wise and prudent
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Seite viii - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite vii - Tis strange, — but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction : if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ; How differently the world would men behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change I The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind their souls
Seite vi - twill pass for wit ; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment ? No: as soon Seek roses in December — ice in June ; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore ; Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.
Seite vi - ... 619. Love of Literature. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons were to be found amongst those who united with a business or profession a love of literature. 620. Marriage. — Choice of a Wife. He was constantly earnest with his friends, when they had thoughts of marriage, to look out for a religious wife. " A principle of honour or fear of the world...
Seite 36 - E'en to a deil, To skelp and scaud poor dogs like me, And hear us squeel I Great is thy power, and great thy fame ; Far kenn'd and noted is thy name : And though yon lowin' heugh's thy hame, Thou travels far : And, faith ! thou's neither lag nor lame, Nor blate nor scaur. Whyles ranging like a roaring lion, For prey a' holes and corners tryin': Whylesonthestrong-wing'd tempest flyin', Tirlin' the kirks ; Whyles in the human bosom pryin', Unseen thou lurks.