Rebellion in Bath: or, The battle of the upper-rooms: an heroico-odico-tragico-comico poem, canto the first, by Peter Paul Pallet, ed. by Timothy Goosequill. To which is added, A vindication of the glorious revolution in 1688, from aspersions cast on it in A sermon preached by H. Phillpotts before the University of Oxford, by Tom Type, Volumen2801808 |
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... event is not in strict- ness to be called by that name , which the common usage of the country , however it originated , seems to have affixed to it . A revolution , properly so called , must be some important change in the constitution ...
... event is not in strict- ness to be called by that name , which the common usage of the country , however it originated , seems to have affixed to it . A revolution , properly so called , must be some important change in the constitution ...
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... event by the name of a revolution ? Rather let us humbly hope , that , in the principles which were then established , it will prove a lasting barrier against all revolutions . It was , at the very time , devised , and happily ...
... event by the name of a revolution ? Rather let us humbly hope , that , in the principles which were then established , it will prove a lasting barrier against all revolutions . It was , at the very time , devised , and happily ...
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... event itself ; nor is there any incon- sistency in affirming , that the character of the event is totally distinct from the character of its consequences , and may require to be regarded by us with very different feelings . It is the ...
... event itself ; nor is there any incon- sistency in affirming , that the character of the event is totally distinct from the character of its consequences , and may require to be regarded by us with very different feelings . It is the ...
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... event of a very different nature . That event was neither accompanied , nor followed , by those dreadful evils which a real revolution can hardly fail to produce . Hence , to call it such is to mislead us in our estimate of the greatest ...
... event of a very different nature . That event was neither accompanied , nor followed , by those dreadful evils which a real revolution can hardly fail to produce . Hence , to call it such is to mislead us in our estimate of the greatest ...
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... event is not to be called a REVOLUTION . Now , according to my notions ( and I have some knowledge of definitions , as I helped to compose part of Johnson's Dictionary ) , a revolution means , the - bringing of a thing back to a state in ...
... event is not to be called a REVOLUTION . Now , according to my notions ( and I have some knowledge of definitions , as I helped to compose part of Johnson's Dictionary ) , a revolution means , the - bringing of a thing back to a state in ...
Términos y frases comunes
amongst Antichrist's detested crew Bath Characters Bathonian Billy Sonnet bold bosom Bow-wow breast brother-poet Brought back November's CANTO card-room chimes of Paul Convention of Cintra crowd dame dark-lanthern business Dick Sable dire DRAWCANSIR excelled his court eyes Fate Fawkes's diabolic plot female fight floor foes following poem freight Of naked friends fury GLORIOUS REVOLUTION glory GORGON Guy Fawkes's diabolic Henry Phillpotts heroic numbers HESIOD hurl'd King ignes initials B. C. lady Lofty Lady Puff lady Wilhelmina Puff Lofty's LUCRETIUS Mezentius Milton monarch Morose November's celebrated night o'er paternal affec Paul and Peter's pen aculeate pipe by gamesome POETICAL Pompo prey to Antichrist's pride Proclaim'd the hour rage RAMROD RATTANA rehearse Themes unattempted RESIN revolution sacred sagacity of James sent the goodly Serbonian bog sharp-sighted sagacity Simile speech stept thee tion Trita uncle's University of Oxford Upper-rooms vengeance rising vex'd VIRG Whilst wigs Αει δε εκ τε
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Página 33 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 33 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 25 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Página 34 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Dissension, like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks; Such was this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall freedom smile ? Shall Britons languish, and be men no more ? Since all must life resign, Those sweet rewards which decorate the brave 'Tis folly to decline, And steal inglorious to the...
Página 3 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 25 - Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Página 33 - ... any four of these barons might admonish the king to redress the grievance : if satisfaction were not obtained, they could assemble the whole council of twenty-five ; who, in conjunction with the great council, were empowered to compel him to observe the charter, and, in case of resistance, might levy war against him, attack his castles, and employ every kind of violence, except against his royal person, and that of his queen and children.
Página 18 - Etrurian shades, High over-arch'd, imbower; or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While, with perfidious hatred, they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating...
Página 33 - ... barons obliged the king to agree that London should remain in their hands, and the tower be consigned to the custody of the primate, till the 15th of August ensuing, or till the execution of the several articles of the Great Charter.