The British Poets; Including Translations
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781154285383
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ...Hebrew, I believe, and that's taste, as I 1 London. Well--now to the point--I'm sent here with commission, To present this fair circle our humble petition: But conscious what hopes we should have of succeeding, Without (as they phrase it) sufficiently bleeding; And convinced we 've no funds, nor old gold we can rake up, Jacob; Like our good fathers--Abraham, Isaac, and We must frankly confess we have nought to present ye, tent ye. But Shakspeare's old sterling--pray let it conThis Shylock, the Jew, whom we mean to restore ye, Was naturalized oft by your fathers before ye; Then take him to-night to your kindest compassion, For to countenance Jews is the pink of the fashion, FOR SOME COUNTRY LADS, PERFORMING 'THE DEVIL OF A WIFE/ IN THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. In days of yore, when round the jovial board, With harmless mirth and social plenty stored, Our parent Britons quaff'd their nut-brown ale, And carols sung, or told the Christmas tale; In struts St. George, Old England's champion knight, With hasty steps, impatient to recite--How he had kill'd the dragon, once in fight. From every side--from Troy--from ancient Greece, Princes pour in to swell the motley piece; And.while their deeds of prowess they rehearse, The flowing bowl rewards their hobbling verse. Intent to raise this evening's cordial mirth, Like theirs, our simple stage-play comes to birth. Our want of art we candidly confess, But give you Nature in her homespun dress; No heroes here--no martial men of might; A cobbler is the champion of to-night; His strap, more famed than George's lance of old, For it can tame that dragoness, a scold Indulgent then support the cobbler's cause, And though he mayn't deserve it, smile applause. TO THE RECRUITING OFFICER'. SPOKEN AT SHREWSBURY, WHERE MR. FARQUHAR IS S...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154285383 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154285383 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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