...friends ; How, as he wander'd darkling o'er the plain, His reason drown'd in JEHKINSON'S champaigne, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a Premier's for a robber's blood. We have been thus minute in tracing the transitions in this inimitable passage, as they display, in...

..." Ah think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt, o'er wine, preach temperance to his friend*, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason...withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." But those were rare condescensions to society in the premier. From remaining unmarried, he was without...

..." Ah think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt, o'er wine, preach temperance to his friends, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason drowned in Jenkinson's champaign, A rustic's hand, but righteous rate withstood, Had Bhed a premier's for a robber's blood."...

...friends, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, Hia reason drowned jn Jenkinson's champaign, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." But those were rare condescensions to society in the premier. From remaining unmarried, he was without...

...Rolliad :" " How as he wandered darkling o'er the Plain, " His Reason drown'd in Jenkinson's Champaign, " A Rustic's Hand, but righteous Fate withstood, " Had shed a Premier's, for a Robber's Blood. Probably, no Men in high Office, since Charles the Second's Time, drank harder than Pitt's Companions...

...Ah think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt, o'er wine, preach temperance to his friend.-*, How, as he wandered darkling o'er tHe plain, His reason drowned in Jenkiimnn's champaign, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's...

...— " Ah, think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt o'er wine preach temperance to his friends, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason...withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." But those were rare condescensions to society in the premier. From remaining unmarried, he was without...

...friends ; How, as he wander'd darkling o'er the plain, His reason drown'd in JENKINSON'S champaigne, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." " The back-stair influence, and the part which the Marquis of Buckingham had acted in it, provoked...

...our obligations. There is a story about Pitt in the ' Rolliad,' founded, we oelieve, on fact : — ' How as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason...withstood, Had shed a Premier's for a robber's blood.' The host was accustomed to do equal justice to his own champagne, if we may trust the anecdote which...

...alluding to Pitt, he says, "How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason drown'd in Jeukinson's champagne, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." •f- Thurlow did not altogether like the tone of conscious superiority which the youthful prime minister...