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Author: Samuel Butler Publisher: ISBN: 9781331244998 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 716
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Vol. 1 of 2 Unhonour'd lay poor But1er's nameless grave, One line, the hand of pitying friendship gave. 'Twas his with pure con ding heart to trust The attering minions of a monarch's lust; And hope that faith a private debt would own, False to the honour of a nation's throne. Such were the lines insulted virtue pour'd, And such the wealth of wit's exhaustless hoard; Of keenest Wisdom dallying With her scorn, And playful jest of indignation born; And honest hatred of that godless crew, To king, to country - to themselves untrue: The hands that laid the blameless mitre low, That gave great Wentworth to the headsman's blow, And theirs the deed immortalized in shame, Which raised a monarch to a martyr's name. Oh! friend! with me thy thoughtful sorrows join, Thy heart will answer each desponding line; Say, when thy hand o'er Ken's neglected grave At once the owers of love and learning gave; About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Samuel Butler Publisher: ISBN: 9781331244998 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 716
Book Description
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Vol. 1 of 2 Unhonour'd lay poor But1er's nameless grave, One line, the hand of pitying friendship gave. 'Twas his with pure con ding heart to trust The attering minions of a monarch's lust; And hope that faith a private debt would own, False to the honour of a nation's throne. Such were the lines insulted virtue pour'd, And such the wealth of wit's exhaustless hoard; Of keenest Wisdom dallying With her scorn, And playful jest of indignation born; And honest hatred of that godless crew, To king, to country - to themselves untrue: The hands that laid the blameless mitre low, That gave great Wentworth to the headsman's blow, And theirs the deed immortalized in shame, Which raised a monarch to a martyr's name. Oh! friend! with me thy thoughtful sorrows join, Thy heart will answer each desponding line; Say, when thy hand o'er Ken's neglected grave At once the owers of love and learning gave; About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Samuel Butler Publisher: ISBN: 9781331772552 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 368
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Excerpt from Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Vol. 1 of 3 Poeta nascitur, non fit, is a sentence of as great truth as antiquity; it being most certain that all the acquired learning imaginable is insufficient to complete a poet, without a natural genius and propensity to so noble and sublime an art. And we may, without offence, observe, that many very learned men, who have been ambitious to be thought poets, have only rendered themselves obnoxious to that satirical inspiration our author wittily invokes; Which made them, though it were in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. On the other side, some who have had very little human learning, but were endued with a large share of natural wit and parts, have become the most celebrated poets of the age they lived in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781330659083 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 310
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Vol. 2: With a Memoir The Argument. The saints engage in fierce contests About their carnal interests, To share their sacrilegious preys According to their rates of Grace: Their various frenzies to reform, When Cromwell left them in a storm; Till, in th' effige of Rumps, the rabble Burn all their Grandees of the Cabal. The learned write an insect breese Is but a mongrel prince of bees, That falls before a storm on cows, And stings the founders of his house, From whose corrupted flesh that breed Of vermin did at first proceed. So, ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sects, The maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after ev'ry swarm its own: This Canto is entirely independent of the adventures of Hudibras and Ralpho; neither of our heroes make their appearance: other characters are introduced. The Poet skips from the time wherein these adventures happened to Cromwell's death, and from thence to the dissolution of the Rump Parliament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bibliography Languages : en Pages : 1426
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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