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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROMOTION OF EDWARD THURLOW, ESQ. 3 The maid who views with pensive air The show-glass fraught with glittering ware, Sees watches, bracelets, rings, and lockets, 25 But sighs at thought of empty pockets; Like thine, her appetite is keen, But ah, the cruel glass between ' Our dear delights are often such; Exposed to view, but not to touch. 30 The sight our foolish heart inflames, We long for pineapples in frames; With hopeless wish one looks and lingers; One breaks the glass, and cuts his fingers; But they whom Truth and Wisdom lead 35 Can gather honey from a weed. ON THE PROMOTION OF EDWARD THURLOW, ESQ., TO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLORSHIP OF ENGLAND. Round Thurlow's head in early youth, And in his sportive days, Fair Science poured the light of truth, And Genius shed his rays. ' See ' with united wonder, cried The experienced and the sage, 'Ambition in a boy supplied With all the skill of age. 'Discernment, Eloquence, and Grace, Proclaim him born to sway The balance in the highest place, And bear the palm away. The praise bestowed was just and wise, He sprang impetuous forth, Secure of conquest where the prize 15 Attends superior worth. So the best courser on the plain Ere yet he starts is known, And does but at the goal obtain What all had deemed his own. / 20 THE MODERN PATRIOT. Rebellion is my theme all day; I only wish 'twould come (As who knows but perhaps it may?) A little nearer home- Yon roaring boys, who rave and fight 5 On the other side the Atlantic, I always held them in the right, But most so when most frantic. When lawless mobs insult the Court, That man shall be my toast, 10 If breaking windows be the sport, Who bravely breaks the most. But oh for ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217195164 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217195164 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 212 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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