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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: ...such a trespass warn him off, Spite of his India-bonds, and rents, His acres, and his three-per-cents. None would endure such parish-prate, Were half the island his estate; Though he in ready cash were sharing The wealth, without the sense, of Baring. A village is a hive of glass. There nothing undescried can pass. There all may study, at their ease, The forms and motions of the bees; What wax or honey each brings home To swell the treasures of the comb, Upon his loaded thighs and wings; And which are drones, and which have stings; Whether in consequence be higher The Rector, or the neighbouring Squire, Or he, the' Attorney of the place, With knocker brazen as his face, Trifling, important, many, few, All, to be talked of, must be new. Here stands proclaimed a general mart. Traffic who will. Here science, art, Wit, learning, courage, genius, sense, And every kind of excellence In the thronged lists of wealth and fame, Contend for fortune, or a name. Say that, from feebleness of will, From indolence, or want of skill, Not venturing on a game so high, You view it as a stander-by; A risk so great, so large a stake, Would keep the heaviest eyes awake. Here, all the senses are on duty. Mark how the streets are paved with beauty! Mark with what triumph in their eye The charmers of the sex pass by! r In vain he lifts in his defence Thy leaden shield, Indifference; A thousand arrows, if he stirs, Stick in his skirts, like Gulliver's. But, since inflicted oft in sport, all His wounds are luckily not mortal; While every single smile or frown Is deadly in a country-town. While, in a village, every dart Strikes to and rankles in the heart! But Autumn comes.--The die is cast. And London must be left at last. What endless shifts, what lame excuses Each longing lingering ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217857701
- ISBN 13 9780217857703
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages38
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