Pranceriana; A select collection of fugitive pieces, - Softcover
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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. 1775 Excerpt: ...Mendaxstrut, a Pudding-Jack; $ But noblest, who wkh artsul grace, A table on his nose can place. f Dr. F th. X Mr. H s. This gentleman exceiia in the manufacture of Mack puddings, as appears from a speech of his to the late Provost. M My dear Provost, I vow to the Lord, 1 was just salting a "parcel of black-puddings with my mvn bands to send you; "when I heard the news of my father's house being robbed." But But thee, more useful toils await, ©! may the Parcæ stretch thy date. Thy labours then, to glad this isle, Shall raise a vast and goodly pile. The riding-house shall rear its head, Soft, foft the horse dung shall be spread. No more with squares and circles addle, See half the College in the saddle! The whip, the boot our youth demand, Dust, not inglorious, stains the band. Soon shall thy Centaurs claim the light, And City Lapiths own their might: The tribes that forge the ductile brass, Or puff to form the molten glass, The sactious clans that shuttles guide, And butchers sell, in crimson dy'd. Lanes, earth and water send in mud, And shambles weep thy rage in blood. The haughty corporations bend, And golden box for tribute send. Thus train thy bands to sighting sields, And reap the palms thy valour yields..With conquest flufh'd, our puissant head To new exploits his troops sliall lead; To raze th' obscene and loathly cells, Where stuin'd in darkness Slander dwells. Among the ancients, the sending of earth and water from one state to another, was a token of subjection. See Thucy--aides, passim. With. With mangled reputations sed, That serve her for her daily bread. Through High-street shall he proudly march, To storm her sane at Otoens-arch. t Through Newgate then,--tremendous tow'r. His doughty host to Meath-Jireet pour. There, ...
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- Erscheinungsdatum2012
- ISBN 10 1236216911
- ISBN 13 9781236216915
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten58
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