Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... THE KING. Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good, How seldom used, how little understood! To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward; Keep Vice restrain'd behind a double guard; To quell the faction that affronts the throne By silent magnanimity alone; To nurse with tender care the thriving arts, Watch every beam philosophy imparts; To give Religion her unbridled scope, Nor judge by statute a believer's hope; With close fidelity and love unfeigned To keep the matrimonial bond unstain'd; Covetous only of a virtuous praise; His life a lesson to the land he sways; To touch the sword with conscientious awe, Nor draw it but when duty bids him draw; To sheath it in the peace-restoring close With joy beyond what victory bestows-- Blest country! where these kingly glories shine; Blest England! if this happiness be thine. Table- Talk. THE STATESMAN. (CHATHAM.) In him, Demosthenes was heard again, Liberty taught him her Athenian strain; She clothed him with authority and awe, Spoke from his lips, and in his looks gave law. His speech, his form, his action, full of grace, And all his country beaming in his face, He stood, as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand. No sycophant or slave that dared oppose Her sacred cause, but trembled when he rose, And every venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crushed at the first word he spoke. Tabh-Talk. THE SOLDIER. Let laurels, drenched in pure Parnassian dews, Reward his memory, dear to every muse, Who, with a courage of unshaken root, In honour's field advancing his firm foot, Plants it upon the line that justice draws, And will prevail or perish in her cause. And when recording History displays Feats of renown, though wrought in ancient days, Tells of a few stout hearts that...