Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Volume 2Longmans, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1860 - English poetry |
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Page 261 - I, by twenty sail attended, Did this Spanish town affright; Nothing then its wealth defended But my orders not to fight. Oh! that in this rolling ocean I had cast them with disdain, And obeyed my heart's warm motion To have quelled the pride of Spain!
Page 199 - Here stars and garters do appear, Among our lords the rabble ; To buy and sell, to see and hear, The Jews and Gentiles squabble. Here crafty courtiers are too wise For those who trust to Fortune ; They see the cheat with clearer eyes, Who peep behind the curtain. 3. " Our greatest ladies hither come, And ply in chariots daily ; Oft pawn their jewels for a sum To venture in the Alley.
Page 262 - Had been better far than dying Of a grieved and broken heart. "Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail; But remember our sad story, And let Hosier's wrongs prevail. Sent in this foul clime to languish, Think what thousands fell in vain, Wasted with disease and anguish...
Page 261 - Nor the sea the sad receiver Of this gallant train had been. ' Thus, like thee proud Spain dismaying, And her galleons leading home, Though condemn'd for disobeying, I had met a traitor's doom ; To have fallen, my country crying, He has play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying, Of a griev'd and broken heart.
Page 260 - Which for winding-sheets they wore, And with looks by sorrow clouded, Frowning on that hostile shore. On them...
Page 7 - having endeavoured to fubvert the conftitution of the kingdom, •' by breaking the original contract between king and people ; " and, by the advice of jefuits and other wicked perfons, having " violated the fundamental laws ; and having withdrawn himfelf " out of this kingdom ; has- abdicated the government, and that the
Page 319 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 260 - Bello's ruin You now triumph free from fears, When you think on our undoing, You will mix your joy with tears.
Page 329 - We have lately been told Of two admirals bold, Who engaged in a terrible fight; They met after noon, "Which I think was too soon, As they both ran away before niglit," So said one of the popular epigrams of the day; and it wa?