Ormington, or Cecil, a Peer [Signed N or M ]
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217026536
Paperback|9780217026536
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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: CHAPTER III. Fair Britain, in a monarch bleat, Whose virtues bear the strictest test;? Whom never faction could bescatter, Nor minister nor poet flatter: What justice in rewarding merit What magnanimity of spirit What lineaments divine we trace Through all his figure, mien and face: Tho' peace with olive bind his hands, Confest the conquering hero stands. Hyduspes, Indus, and the Ganges, Dread from his hand impending changes; And Yankee, Tartar, and Chinese. Short by the knees intreat for peace.?Swiht. The Dean has forestalled all that my loyalty would otherwise have dictated; but under cover of our united flourish of trumpets, I suppose I may presume to whisper to the public that I found the thraldom of my golden chains almost as irksome as if they had been formed of baser metal. Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop says the poet, or the proverb created by the poet; and the artificiality of my compelled existence caused me after a time to yearn for the simplicities of life, as a fish gasping on the sand after the limpid waters. It is a horrible thing to resign the privilege of being out of health, ?out of spirits, ?out of temper. Even the sun, to palliate the monotony of its existence, is sometimes permitted to shine through a cloud. But a courtier, ? homme sans humeur et sans honneur?must be an incarnate smile, ?an instinctive affirmative, ?a symbol of obsequious acquiescence; his nay must be so modulated as to sound like yea; his dissent must be so accoutred as to resemble accordance, like its twin brother. He is invited frankly to declare his opinions, because he is pre-under.stood to have no opinions but those of his august master; and his independence of speech is much like that of Punch's dog, trained to bark at i
| ISBN-13 | 9780217026536 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217026532 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.68 In |
| List Price | $30.36 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 302 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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