Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Том 2Longmans, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1860 |
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Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Annotated, Том 2 Повний перегляд - 1860 |
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Сторінка 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!
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 262 - 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, Not in glorious battle slain.
Сторінка 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people ; " and, by the advice of jefuits and other wicked perfons, having " violated the fundamental laws ; and having withdrawn himfelf " out of this kingdom ; has- abdicated the government, and that the
Сторінка 260 - Bello's ruin You now triumph free from fears, When you think on our undoing, You will mix your joy with tears.
Сторінка 260 - Hosier's injured ghost, You, who now have purchased glory At this place where I was lost; Though in...
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 123 - Or else have burst in twain. But fortune spared that precious life, And so saved church and queen : Good Swift was by, and had a knife For corn or pen made keen ; Stand off, my lord ! cried he, this thread To cut I will not doubt. He cut, then ope•d the band-box lid, And so the plot came out. Now God preserve our gracious queen ; And for this glorious deed, May she the doctor make a dean, With all convenient speed : What though the Tub hath hinder'd him, As common story tells, Yet surely now the...