Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto III (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Meanwhile at the declining Noon of Night,When gentle Sleep had veil'd each Mortal's Sight;With balmy Dews the smiling Pastures weep,Torrents ...
Meanwhile at the declining Noon of Night,When gentle Sleep had veil'd each Mortal's Sight;With balmy Dews the smiling Pastures weep,Torrents ...
To Thee, my Snape, in these Reforming Times,Grateful, we send our Blessing and our Rimes.Odd it may seem for Us, ...
While You, dread Sir, whom partial Heav'n denies,The fruitful Vineyard and Cis--Alpine Skies,O'er frozen Heights and chilling Desarts stray,Far from ...
The Worldling Churchman, raging with Defeat,Renews his Hate, and burns with double Heat.Tho' foil'd in Synod, he laments the DayThat ...
At length the great decisive Year is come,And Britain triumphs o'er the Wiles of Rome,No more in Frowns our Holy ...
The Patten, Fan, and Petticoat,Three modern Themes of special Note,In parlous Rhimes immortal live,If Rhimes immortal Life can give;The Mouse--Trap ...
Whither, oh! whither must the Christian turn?From whom in this momentous Crisis learn?When shall the Church from worldly Pomps be ...
While the fierce Contest rages from afar,And hostile Pamphlets breathe alternate War:The carnal Priests at ev'ry Shock o'erthrown,Now trust to ...
Tho' proud Del---ne, for nameless, partial Ends,Throws me at Distance from my letter'd Friends;And, not content to banish from his ...
A Priestly--War I sing, and bloodless Field,And pious Chiefs, in Paper Warfare skill'd;Chiefs, that full oft have quarrell'd for their ...
Hail to the Man, whom sacred thirst of FameAmongst the stars enroll'd a shining Name!In whose great Soul Apollo fix'd ...
Curst be that busy Wretch, that human Beast,(Some crafty Statesman or ambitious Priest)Who first his own pernicious Schemes to buildHis ...
Once on a Time, in Sunshine Weather,Falshood and Truth walk'd out together,The neighbouring Woods and Lawns to view,As Opposites will ...
O Stanhope! great in Council, and in Fight,Whom the first Scenes of publick Life delight,In Fields of Death to meet ...
Prithee, dear Nick, thy wicked Life amend,And take the Counsel of thy nearest Friend:No more, presumptuous Boy, with impious airs,Prefer ...
Whilst two great Bards our grateful Country mourns,And sheds the Debt of Sorrow o'er their Urns;Transfus'd in thee, revive their ...
Of Dames who in strict Virtue glory,In antient or in modern Story;The fam'd Lucretia bears the Bell,An arrant Prude, as ...
Must Brunswick and his Friends for ever bear,The keen Resentments of the British Fair?Still crown'd with Glory, must he curse ...
E'er the sixth Age the Christian Faith decreas'd,And stubborn Errors spread o'er all the East;The Judas Priest, debauch'd with sensual ...
Tories and Whigs, with mutual selfish Pride,In all their Quarrels for themselves decide,Both Parties their own Principles prefer,And in their ...
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