{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3300", "width": "1894", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Book i fcLj_5JE.Ce.", "height": "3136", "width": "1740", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3048", "width": "1676", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3156", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3128", "width": "1676", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "1740", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "33/\\nTHE\\nEPICS OF THE TON 5\\nOR,\\nTHE GLORIES\\nOF\\nTHE GREAT 1F0RLB\\nIN TWO BOOKS,\\nWITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nOmnes illacrymabiles\\nUrgentur ignotique longa\\nNocte, carent quia vate sacro. HOR.\\nO say shall those who just so bright have shone,\\nEscape remembrance when they quit the Ton\\nTheir laurels wither d, and their name forgot,\\nAs dog on dunghill has been said to rot!\\nIcmscn\\nPRINTED BY AND FOR C. AND R. BALDWIN,\\nNEW-BRIDGE-STIIEET.\\n1807.", "height": "3112", "width": "1688", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "T1?47 3\\nD.7YL\\nIf Ti oo.", "height": "3152", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TO THE GENTLE READER.\\n_lT is pleasing to know the name of an Author,\\nand doubly gratifying to learn his private history.\\nIf he is no niggard of due commendations, one may\\nthus discover, whether he is a person that one should\\nlike to invite to one s table; and, if he is a satyrist,\\nit would be convenient to ascertain, if one might\\nsafely spit in his face. But in this world, there\\nis no such thing as obtaining all one s wishes for\\ntruly said the Roman poet long ago\\nNihil est ab omni\\nParte beatum.\\nYou may however rest assured, Gentle Reader,\\nthat no pains have been spared, on the present oc-\\ncasion, to gratify your reasonable curiosity. The\\nPublisher has, at an expence too extravagant to be\\nbelieved, procured the celebrated Mr. who\\ncan distinguish the styles of all men that have\\nwritten, or that may write, to inspect the manu-\\nscript, and discover the author. This learned and\\ningenious gentleman, has at length, with indefatiga-\\nble industry succeeded in fixing the performance,", "height": "3148", "width": "1680", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "by indubitable marks, on no less than thirteen very\\nwitty authors now alive but which of these is th e\\nreal author, (for one of them it evidently must be)\\nis humbly left to the unerring judgment of the\\npublic. All that is further necessary to be added,\\nis a flat contradiction of the ridiculous and injuri-\\nous report, so industriously propagated, that it is a\\nposthumous production of Mr. Tobin, whose Muse\\nfirst smooth d the fashionable world ivitli the Honey-\\nmoon, and then prepared to roughen it with the\\nPharo Table. That it cannot be the work of this\\n(late) man is unquestionable first, because it is\\nimpossible that the same author, who descended to a\\ncomedy, coidd rise to an Epic Poem secondly, be-\\ncause his dramas are written in blank verse, whereas\\nthe following piece is composed in rhyme; thirdly,\\nbecause, according to the old and undoubted adage,\\ndead men tell no tales, whereas, in the succeeding\\npages, some tales are told. And lastly, because the\\ndirge of the said Tobin is sung in the following\\npages, and no man was ever heard to sing his own\\ndirge.\\nThe notes, it is needless to add, are by a different\\nhand but of necessity extremely well executed, since\\nthey were paid for at the very highest rate of\\nsheet-work.", "height": "3156", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS TO PART I.\\nOR,\\nTHE FEMALE BOOK.\\nPage\\nM F 14\\nM of A 18\\n22\\nD of G 24\\nL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M P 3 D of R M\\nC D of M D of\\nB\u00e2\u0080\u0094 27\\nL L M 30\\nD of S A 33\\nD of D 35\\nM of S 39\\nC of B 41\\nC of M 43\\nM of A 54\\nM of A 56\\nL H 59\\nV C 66\\nL C C 67\\nD of R 72\\nL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P 83", "height": "3144", "width": "1680", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "COWTFNTS.\\nPage\\nof D 87\\nC CG\\n-M 105\\nCONTENTS TO PART II.\\nTHE MALE BOOK.\\nPage.\\nD of P 120\\nL H P 126\\nS P 142\\nL G 153\\nG C 166\\nG- R 177\\nW W 1 S3\\nR B S 197\\nL E 226\\nL R 234\\nE of H 242\\nE of C 250\\nD of Q 253\\nE of M 260", "height": "3152", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE\\nEPICS OF THE TON,\\nBOOK THE FIRST;\\nBEING\\nTHE FEMALE BOOK.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3152", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE\\nEPICS OF THE TON:\\nTHE FEMALE BOOK.\\nVV hile dull historians only sing of wars,\\nOf hoocUwink d treaties hatching keen-ey d jars\\nOf wily statesmen splitting hairs asunder,\\nOf hills and orators who belch and thunder j\\nOf grinding taxes, and of tott ring thrones, 5\\nOf him who eats up states, and picks the bones\\nSay shall the brightest glories of our age,\\nWho best adorn the cut, and grace the page,\\nLine 4.] The eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. Dr.\\nLawrence, c.\\nLine 6.] This mode of expression, when we consi-\\nder the dimensions and isophagical capacity cf the little\\ngreat man, seems rather more appropriate than the ce-\\nlebrated figure swallowing us up quick.\\nB 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4 EPICS OF THE TON\\nWho on the top of fashion s Ida dwell,\\nAnd gold in showers produce to either Bell j 10\\nO say shall these, who just so bright have shone,\\nEscape remembrance when they quit the Ton\\nTheir laurels wither d, and their name forgot,\\nAs dog on dunghill has been said to rot\\nLine 10.] It is needless to inform my fashionable\\nreaders that La Belle Asstmblee, that ornament of every\\nlady s toilet, is published by Bell the father while Le\\nBeau Monde, that inseparable companion of every man\\nof fashion, is given to the world by Bell the son. But\\nit is necessary to state that a promise on the part of\\nthese gentlemen is the cause why this volume is not\\nadorned with plates. A.s they have advertised their in-\\ntention of giving, the subjects of my song to the public\\nin a series of engravings, of which the first will appear\\nin an early number of their valuable repositories, I\\nthought it unnecessary to increase the price of my pub-\\nlication by embellishing it with plates. The fashionable\\nworld may depend upon it that the elegance of the exe-\\ncution will correspond with their highest expectations j\\nand I would recommend to all lovers of this volume to\\nsecure good impressions, by early ordering La Belle As-\\nsemble and Le Beau Monde for the next two or three\\nyears. Had it not been for this undertaking of Messrs\\nBell, each of the following epics would have been", "height": "3156", "width": "1760", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 5\\nForbid it honour and forbid it shame 15\\nThe love of glory, and the love of game\\nForbid it, Muse, who oft with glowing strains\\nHave rais d sensations in high ladies veins\\nYou who, with Ethredge, roved in royal stores,\\nWhen beauties, like hobnails, were told by scores 20\\nadorned with a cut, exhibiting a striking likeness of the\\nhero or heroine. Note by the Author.\\nLine 19.] Every one knows the author of the Fop\\nin Fashion. His morals were a lesson to the bag-\\nnios his conduct an improvement on his precepts.\\nAt the licentious court of Charles the Second his volup-\\ntuous plays gave a zest to the languid intervals of de-\\nbauchery j and his Dorimant taught the. youth of both\\nsexes to mingle wit with wine, and address with profli-\\ngacy. Half a century afterwards, the elegant pen of\\nAddison could scarcely banish his lewd ribaldry from\\nthe toilet. His end corresponded with his life. After\\nhaving wasted his fortune and his nose in the service of\\nBacchus and of Venus, he tumbled down stairs, as he\\nrose from one of his debauches, and broke his neck in\\nthe very article of drunkenness.\\nLine 20.] It is needless to tell the knowing reader\\nof those rows of female figures, with stiff necks and\\nwry heads, which are usually seen suspended in old", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "6 EPICS OF THE TON\\nOr with poor Smollett, fain for gold to tickle,\\nWrought up with liquorish gust, the feats of Pickle\\nOr, sinning deeper, like repentant Punk,\\nCall d gloating females to abhor the Monk\\ngalleries, and which are known by the name of King\\nCharles s Beauties.\\nLine 21.] Poor Smollett It is lamentable to recol-\\nlect that the author of Roderick Random and of Hum-\\nphrey Clinker should have prostituted his pen to deli-\\nneate the debaucheries of Peregrine Pickle. Does the\\nlatter display genius so much the worse. The prosti-\\ntute, who haunts the way side in rags, only disgusts the\\nloathing eye it is she, whose voluptuous limbs shine\\nthrough the transparent muslin, that lures us to our\\nruin. Peregrine Pickle adorns many a toilet, where\\nAristotle s Master-piece would be thought to carry inde-\\nlible pollution. It is said that my Lord on\\nentering her ladyship s apartment one morning, per-\\nceived the third volume of Peregrine Pickle under her\\npillow. As she was asleep, he gently withdrew it, and\\nsubstituted in its room a Common Prayer Book. One\\nmay imagine her ladyship s surprise, when on awaking,\\nand resorting to her dear morning treat, she found the\\namours of Mrs. B. converted by magic art, into the\\nLitany.\\nLine 24.] It was a good moral thought, to create a", "height": "3156", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 7\\nOr with young Teius sung of am rous blisses, 25\\nWith one eternal round of hugs and kisses\\ngeneral abhorrence of Vice, by producing her stark-\\nnaked before the world. But unfortunately, so tempt-\\ning, so piquant did the fiend appear, that the daughters\\nas well as the sons of Jerusalem began to long after\\nstrange flesh. In short, the developement produced, if\\nit was not intended to produce, the same effect as when\\nAlcibiades bared the bosom of the Athenian courtezan\\nbefore the judges. The dread of the pillory, however,\\non this, as on other occasions, proved an admirable cor-\\nrector of the press and the second edition of the Monk\\nproved a very harmless and a very insipid performance.\\nThe jest was gone and it has left its author only a\\nname.\\nLine 26*.] Such are his never-ending themes as\\nthe everlasting joys of love and wine were sung by the\\nelder Teian. Yet it must be owned, that if he seldom\\nexpresses more than hugs and kisses, he often comes\\nvery near something more substantial. Witness the\\nWedding Ring. 1 And now, O Heaven I am not\\napt to dread much from bad books, but I must own I\\nwas startled when I discovered these salacious lays on a\\nlady s dressing table. Thanks to my happy stars nei-\\nther she, nor Mrs. T. is my wife. There is a consi-\\nderable adaptation to the subject in the following stan-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "8 EPICS OF THE TON\\nFrom next year s Lethe, and oblivion drear,\\nCome save the deeds which you have help d to rear.\\nzas, which appeared in the Morning Herald of the 25th\\nof last October\\nOn certain Lice?itious Poems lately published\\nO listen to the voice of love,\\nWild boars of Westphaly\\nYour pretty hearts let music move,\\nTis Mauro s harmony.\\nYour ear incline, ye gende swine,\\nWhile he extols your loves j\\nFor though from you he learnt to whine,\\nYet he the song improves.\\nListen each bristly beau and belle,\\nAnd leave the genial tray j\\nYou ll rind the poet s song excel\\nFresh acorns and sweet whey.\\nO listen to the voice of love,\\nRam cats on moonlight tiles,\\nThe minstrel of the lemon grove\\nRecords your Cyprian wiles.\\nYe goats that ply your nimble shanks\\nOn ancient Penmanmaur,\\nBleat him your thanks, who sings your pranks,\\nWhile satyrs cry encore,", "height": "3156", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 9\\nShould st thou, my lay, shine splendid as thy theme,\\nLike rushlights to thy sun, all bards should seem: 30\\nThen still might Southey sing his crazy Joan,\\nOr feign a Welshman o er th Atlantic flown,\\nOr tell of Thalaba the wondrous matter,\\nOr with clown Wordsworth chatter, chatter, chatter;\\nAnd all ye Incubi that ride\\nThe night-mare through the gloom,\\nThe chorus swell. Your poet s shell\\nIs strung from Circe s loom.\\nLine 31.] This man, the Blackmore of the age, if\\nwe look at the number of his Epics, might become its\\nDryden, if his fancy were chastened by judgment, and\\nhis taste cleansed from the maggots of the new school.\\nBut, mistaking facility of composition for inspiration,\\nand imagining that to restrain the overwhelming flood\\nof his versification would be to dam up the pure current\\nof genius, his swoln torrent is likely to overflow for a\\nwhile, and then subside into a very pitiful streamlet.\\nBut it is in vain to admonish. Volvitur et volvetur\\nalas that we cannot add in opine \u00e2\u0080\u00a2volubilis cevum\\nLine 34.] Every one knows how meritoriously\\nWordsworth has laboured to bring back our poetry to\\nthe simplicity of nature. In his unsophisticated pages\\nwe discover no gaudy trappings, no blazing metaphors,\\nno affected attempts at poetical diction. Every thing is", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "10 EPICS OF THB TON\\nStill Rogers bland his imitations twine, 35\\nAnd strain his Memory for another line;\\npure from the hand of untutored nature nor do we dis\\ncover a single thought or phrase that might not hav\\nbeen uttered by a promising child of six years old\\nWhat an improvement is this on the laboured conceit*\\nof Pope on the learned lumber of Milton Yet I will\\naver, that there may be found in Wordsworth beauties\\nwhich these poets never reached, nor even dreamt of.\\nProduce me from all their writings any thing to match\\nthe simply affecting tale of Goody Blake and Harry\\nGill or a line in which the sound so well corresponds\\nwith the sense, as in the following description of Harry s\\ndoom\\nHis teeth went chatter, chatter,\\nChatter, chatter, chatter, still.\\nWhat renders the beautiful superiority of this mode of\\nexpression still more striking, is the facility with which\\nit may be employed, with equal effect, on a thousand\\ndifferent occasions. For example, it might be said of\\nGoody Blake, who now wanted the teeth\\nHer gums went mumble, mumble,\\nMumble, mumble, mumble, still.\\nOr of ladies on pattens\\nTheir feet went clatter, clatter,\\nClatter, clatter, clatter, still.\\nOr of the persevering efforts of a dog at a furze bush-\\nHere Lightfoot he made water, water,\\nWater, water, water, still.", "height": "3156", "width": "1776", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. II\\nGood-natured Scott rehearse in well-paid Lays\\nThe marv lous chiefs and elves of other days\\nOr lazy Campbell spin his golden strains,\\nAnd have the Hope he nurtures, for his pains 40\\nLine 35.] There is much in the title of a book j and\\nif there is nothing else for which an author deserves\\npraise, still his ingenuity ought to be applauded if he\\nhas devised a happy appellation for his work. Eveiy\\none feels the pleasures of memory the very words ex-\\ncite a thousand agreeable associations 5 and miserable\\nmust the minstrel be, who cannot chime in a few notes\\nthat will please, when the soul is so fully prepared to\\nenjoy them. On such an occasion, the unoffending\\nstrains of Rogers, soft, delicate, polished, sympathetic\\nyouth could not fail to be interesting but he may\\nthank the blessed powers of verse that Goldsmith lived,\\nand that the Traveller and the Deserted Village were\\nwritten.\\nLine 37.] In former days poets we are told could\\nnot make a bare livelihood of the fruit of their brains.\\nThey might sing like Syrens, and beg like gipsies, and\\nyet after all they could scarcely make a shift to dine on\\none dish, and drink small beer. Times, it would ap-\\npear, are altered. Scott, by producing before us the\\nlays of our ancient minstrels, and by himself bringing\\nup the rear, enjoys large prices of copy-rights, and a\\ncouple of good offices. To his honour be it said, few\\nmen deserve better to thrive in the world.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThou shouldst triumphant mount to distant times,\\nAnd bear aloft thy heroes on thy rhymes\\nWell known to all that soar, and all that crawl,\\nOn every dressing-table, ever} stall,\\nThy circulation should thy worth bespeak, 45\\nAnd thousands still be sold through many a week;\\nLine 35 The first poetical genius of our age\\nbut, unfortunately, more a wit than discreet. With\\nsuch lagging steps were his first efforts, his Pleasures o\\nHope, followed up, that we began to look upon it as\\none of the bright rays which the sun of genius some-\\ntimes darts forth at his rising and afterwards plunges\\nhis head in impenetrable clouds, which never leave him\\ntill he sets. But the Battle of Hohenlinden proved that\\nthe genius of Campbell was still to shine, and to exceed\\nin his noon the promise of his morn. Alas how men\\nneglect the talents by which they are destined to excel\\nhow they waste their efforts in what they can never\\nachieve Campbell must needs be a politician, and write\\na history. He that could soar to the empyreal regions,\\nmust needs lay aside his wings, and attempt, at the\\nimminent danger of his neck, to dance on the slack\\nrope\\nLine 40.] It is now said he has got a pension. This\\nmay relieve his wants, but not retrieve his reputation.\\nIt is miserable to see the man, whose talents might pro-\\ncure him opulence with fame, hold out his suppliant", "height": "3156", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 13\\nWhile tomes thrice learn d, that piled in warehouse\\ngroan,\\nWould but to snuff-shops have their merits known.\\nThen, Muse of Ton, begin and while thy song\\nIn no unmeaning eddies strays along 50\\nWith blank most eloquent, and hint that flames,\\nUnfolds redoubted chiefs, and high-bred dames\\nBids a whole epic upon each attend,\\nWith quaint beginning, middle, and smart end\\nhand, and fawn on a courtier for a morsel of bread.\\nLine 50.] Surely it would be far more gratifying to\\nsee the streams of poetry distributed in all the fantastic\\nshapes known two centuries ago spouted from the\\nmouths of Tritons or Naiads, dashed over cataracts ten\\nfeet high, and tossed by jetties over the surface of a\\nyard-wide pool than to behold them, after the pre-\\nsent fashion, meandring through a smooth shaven lawn,\\nin a channel cut out of the sod, and just so many inches\\nbroad in every quarter, without a single solitary pebble\\nto give a little play to the ever-glassy surface.\\nLine 54.] This admirable and ancient definition of\\nan epic poem (to which the following epics correspond\\nas completely as any that have ever been written) ap-\\npears, as is usual with the beauties of antiquity, to have\\na reference to certain striking analogies in nature such,\\nC", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nI in my buggie, thine advcnt rous Knight, 55\\nThrough Rotten Row will tend upon thy flight;\\nWhate cr thy Sybil voice shall utter, save,\\nAnd now and then myself indite a stave.\\nYe female glories Be it first your turn,\\nWho shine the brightest as ye fiercest burn. 60\\nV\\nM F y\\nWhom shalt thou, midst this full blown garden,\\nchoose,\\nTo form thy first bright wreathe, discerning muse\\nSay, are not her s the most exalted charms,\\nWho lures an H A to her arms\\nAnd hopes to shine the first of r-^-y 1 65\\nNell Gwyns unnoticed then, and Pompadours\\nfor instance, as that of all quadrupeds and many bipeds,\\neach of which has a beginning, a middle, and an end,\\nor in other words, a head, a belly, and a tail.\\nLine 55.] Thus Pope\\nI in my little bark attendant sail, c.\\nLine G6\\\\] Madame Pompadour; one of the most", "height": "3156", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 15\\nWhat though drear wrinkles on her brow be seen,\\nAnd fat alone remains where fair has been\\nWhat though a duskier hue, and flaccid frame,\\nAll out of season speak the rancid game 70\\ninsolent, unprincipled, profligate, and revengeful, of\\nthose harlots who, in France, trampled all virtue and\\ndecency under foot and, by shewing how much mo-\\nrals and religion were despised in the palace of the sove-\\nreign, loosened the hold of these ties over the minds of\\nthe people, and precipitated the throne of France to its\\nruin. How blind are princes, how criminal, when\\nthey endanger their own destruction, and the good\\norder, virtue, and happiness of their people, for such\\nsensual gratifications as would appear despicable in the\\nlowest debauchee Will no warning voice be heard\\nno repetition of examples strike The profligacy of\\nLouis the Fifteenth, was followed by the death of his\\nsuccessor on a scaffold. Happy Britain thy virtuous\\nKing has set a far different example and, amidst all\\nthe temptations of a court, has never once deviated from\\nthe wife of his youth.\\nLine 68.] The reader will readily recollect the cele-\\nbrated toast, fat, fair, and forty.\\nLine 70.] It is needless to descant to my readers of\\ntaste on the rich relish of game when in season.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "10 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThough all that s gross must now be born to please.\\nAnd love be lured by its excessive ease\\nThough toilsome arts and ever-varied charms\\nMust back entice her lover to her arms\\n(Some swains will stray in closure, or in common,; 5\\nWhere er their scent detects a fat old woman,\\nAs late hoar J felt her power to fix,\\nAnd wiser H scorn d at fifty-six\\nWhat though around her sneer her seeming slaves\\nAnd loud and fierce the man of Diamond raves 80\\nWhat though deep groans foreboding parents breathe,\\nAnd turn their eyes indignant to Blackheath\\nLine SO.] When an honest unsuspecting man has\\nbeen deceived by warm professions of friendship, en-\\ntrapped by specious promises, and at length deserted by\\nthose who have caused his ruin, I detest his betrayers, I\\npity bis misfortunes, I would stand forth to proclaim his\\nwrongs to the world, and assert his right to redress.\\nBut when a very sycophant, after having licked the\\nfootsteps of a patron and his whose character\\nhe well knew, is at length cast off, and begins in a\\nhalf-whining, half-angry tone, to remonstrate thus be-\\nfore the world: Was I not the most assiduous of\\nyour slaves Did I not do all your dirty jobs without a", "height": "3148", "width": "1776", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 17\\nIn her barouche while r 1 will roll,\\nOr love between her mountain breasts to loll\\nWhile round the course, or through the shining\\nSteine, 8.\\nTrain d to her side a p y prize is seen\\nTo catch, with smiles, her glances as they fly,\\nAnd search for lustre in her hollow d eye\\nStill crouds will gaze, still Brighthelmstonewill shout,\\nStill titled ladies throng her envied rout QO\\nBy sires who kneel before the rising sun,\\nBy mothers who no shame for courts would shun,\\nStill blooming daughters to her levees led,\\nShall learn betimes to stain the marriage bed.\\nO Britain s Queen accept the tribute due 05\\nTo Virtue, Honour, Modesty, and You\\nmurmur Would I not still have done so, had you not\\nkicked me, spit upon me, left me sprawling in the dirt?\\nWhen I listen to a scene of this sort, I only moralize\\nto myself, that spaniels who snarl deserve to have their\\nears pulled.\\nLine 84.] Hinc atque hinc vastae rupes.\\nVirgil.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "18 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThough this loose age, by French example wise,\\nThe sacred rites of wedded love despise j\\nThough matrons shine, when lost their honest name,\\nAnd with th adult rer proudly flaunts the dame; 100\\nYet her I honour to whose single court,\\nChaste maids may still without a blush resort\\nEven if the lewd should come, they come unknown,\\nAnd Vice itself must here its name disown\\nM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of A~A.\\nBut quit, my Muse, oh quit these humble\\nscenes, 105\\nNor stoop to queens, from feats surpassing queens.\\nA would-be princess thee provokes to scan\\nHer flight from King to Emp ror, Czar, Sultan\\nTo bound with her where Rhone and Danube glide,\\nOr pant for glory by the Neva s side 110\\nBy Dnieper s stream, or rude Crimean height,\\nTo prune thy wing, and emulate her flight\\nLine 95. Here the author himself speaks 3 for the\\nMuse of the Ton is plainly silent.", "height": "3144", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 19\\nThen at the Haram s door her watch to keep,\\nBlest haunt where virgins ne er were known to peep.\\nOr see her thence return d, with bolder fame, 1 1 5\\nThat spurns the vulgar tongue, and treads on shame,\\nTry kings in vain, and after all miscarriage,\\nEntrap a pur-blind M-^^-g e into marriage.\\nAn easier task now, Hymen, thou hast got,\\nA prince may fix her, though a peer could not 120\\nA royal Lord may rein her peccant part,\\nWho, from his foot, picks up her bleeding heart\\nLine 114.] We are assured that no lady is ever al-\\nlowed to enter the Seraglio, without sharing in the ho-\\nnours of the place. This is no more to be dispensed\\nwith than the oaths at Highgate.\\nLine 121.] Peccant part means her head.\\nLine 122.] About nineteen the beautiful dame was\\nled to the altar, and became the mother of several chil-\\ndren 3 by whom, it is not to be questioned, since her\\nhusband was within the narrow seas. Unfortunately,\\nhowever, she in time discovered that there existed be-\\ntween herself and her spouse that great cause of mental\\ndivorce, incompatibility of temper. He was not the\\nbeing with whom her soul had panted to shine through\\nlife, and her eager fancy began to long after brighter", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSooth she ll not part, nor he to snarl begin,\\nGood Germans care not for small slips a pin.\\nHail love of glory passion great and blest 125\\nBut triply noble in a female breast\\nRapt bards have sung thy feats, in days of yore,\\nWith Spartan matrons, and with hundreds more\\nHow thou could st make gay damsels fire the trenches,\\nAnd generalissimos of ostler wenches 130\\nvisions. In this frame of mind, as she one night lay by\\nthe side of her sleeping lord, she fell into a ^ort of rap-\\nturous slumber, and dreamed that lo her heart lay\\nbleeding at her feet All night long she ruminated on\\nthis remarkable vision, and towards day concluded its\\ninterpretation must be that he who should at length\\npick up her bleeding heart would be a personage so\\ngreat, that it must needs roll in the dust before him.\\nIs it to be wondered at that this bright prospect should\\ntempt her to quit a foolish husband, and a bevy of\\nclamorous children, after having drawled through this\\nfatiguing scene (not wholly barren of other pleasures)\\nfor fourteen years\\nLine 124.] See the play of the Stranger, and various\\nfashionable German novels, which teach husbands to\\nbear, with perfect good humour, certain accidents hi-\\ntherto accounted grievous mishaps.\\nLine 130.] Such was the invigorating occupation of", "height": "3156", "width": "1780", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 21\\nYet sure thy power exceeds what poets feign,\\nIf e er thy ruling force these aims should gain,\\nTo Jove s imperial bird convert the raven,\\nAnd Lady Mary make of Lady\\nNor these bright trophies sate the kindling\\ndame, 135\\nShe grasps the lyre, and pants for deathless fame\\nErects a stage, where her own scenes appear,\\nThe poet she, and she the actor here\\nthe Maid of Arc, whom Southey has transformed into\\na moon-struck shepherdess.\\nLine 134.] Such was the secret spring of all the\\nwonderful movements which we have mentioned. To\\nbe another Lady M ry W rt y M nt g ue To\\nshine in the eyes of the present generation, and be\\nequally admired by the next Hence the banks of the\\nHellespont were attained by the circuitous route of\\nWeimar, Paris, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Petersburgh,\\nMoscow, dim Tartary, and the Bosphorus Hence\\nParis,, and Constantinople, and Athens, were be-\\nwritten in letters, and be-printed in narratives. Luckily,\\nat the very moment of return, the forsaken peer kindly\\nquitted this nether world, and left the heroine free and\\nunconfined to mount aloft to her high destiny.\\nLine 137.] In the name of old Father Thames., I", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "22 EPICS OF THE TON\\nHere far above all vulgar flight she soars,\\nSpouts what she dreams, inditing what she roars\\nOf all inglorious rivals makes a riddance, 141\\nAnd shines at once a Centlivre and Siddons.\\nHail rap trous moments hail ingenious dame\\nHer pleasures doubled, as her doubled fame\\nShe hugs in fancy, as the scene she plies 145\\nAnd acting it, she hugs in solid guise.\\nPeace to such venial faults But were it told\\nA woman lived still profligate though old\\nOne who, from youth, at each unhallow d fire,\\nHad glow d and batten *d to her heart s desire; 150\\nAs dead to shame, to every generous thought,\\nAs Mother Win, who long has sold and bought;\\nthank her h s for erecting this antique Gothic Thes-\\npian barn on his banks, to die great delight and edifica-\\ntion of his holiday votaries. Some persons have said\\n(what will not envy say that it is a curious contradic-\\ntion in taste to imprint false marks of antiquity so zea-\\nlously upon this pile, v hile she eft aces the real ones with\\nno less industry from her own person.", "height": "3156", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 23\\nA hacknied gamester who has driven the trade\\nTo snare each unfledg d youth and artless maid\\nIn passion nurtur d, to indulgence bred, 155\\nAnd blest in any but her husband s bed\\nWhile Virtue shudder d, and Repentance wept,\\nA wife, a mother, keeping oft and kept\\nKnown to the general camp, pioneers and all,\\nMy lord above-stairs, Thomas in the hall 100\\nNo sin abridged as life s dark close draws near,\\nAnd quite a wanton in her sixtieth year\\nIs English air defil d by such a hag\\nHaste, shut her up with cat, snake, ape, in bag\\nLine 159.] What though the general camp, pio-\\nneers and all,\\nHad tasted her sweet body.\\nShakspeare.\\nLine 164.) By a law among the Romans, persons\\nguilty of certain atrocious crimes were shut up in a bag\\nwith a cat, an ape, and a serpent, and so thrown into\\nthe Tiber. It is difficult to say what reformation an ex-\\nample or two of this kind might work in the present\\nday.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nNay, lady, frown not at these random hits 165\\nBut let her take it whom the bonnet fits.\\nD of G\\nBawl not so loud nor shake the muse s nerves\\nShe hastes to sing thee as thy worth deserves.\\nO destin d by the fates, in happiest hour,\\nTo shew the triumphs of the love of power 1 O\\nAnd teach the world against what fearful odds,\\nA girl of Scotland may approach the Gods\\nLine l66.~\\\\ Our author, to make the real vices of the\\nage appear trivial, seems to have drawn, from his imagina-\\ntion, a fictitious character of a peculiarly deformed aspect.\\nThis is an innocent artifice to transmit to posterity as\\nfavourable an impression of his own times as possible.\\nWhether he had in his eye any noted character of an-\\ncient days, I am unable to determine, since he has not\\neven afforded room for conjecture, by prefixing any\\nmysterious capitals to the delineation. But certain it i\\nthat no personage of this description can have existed\\nsince the days of Messalina, unless perhaps that fair\\nBorgia, whose knight-errant Roscoe has so gallantly de-\\nclared himself.\\nLine 172.] Not those of Olympus, or the Upper\\nGallery.", "height": "3144", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 25\\nFew nymphs, new fledg d, with eagle eye could\\ntrace\\nThe sudden frailties of his am rous Grace\\nOr move a griping draper with the pledge, 1 75\\nIn one short night to set the peer on edge.\\nFew, in a ten-foot parlour taught to shine,\\nWhere captains sometimes flirt, and parsons dine,\\nCould set the winter circles in a blaze,\\nWhile dowagers with double vision gaze SO\\nFirst at the rout, the ring, the masque, the ball,\\nWhere dice-box rattles, or Signoras squall\\nAt Faro s orgies fam d, with bolder flight,\\nTo win or lose a fortune in a night\\nLine 175.] Such, according to report, was the\\nmanner in which the finery was procured for the ball at\\nwhich this gallant feat was achieved. His grace danced\\nwith the enchanting Miss M and from that lucky\\nmoment conceived an irresistible propensity to conduct\\nher to the altar.\\nLine 180.] I wonder that none of our ingenious ca-\\nricaturists have caught this idea: a dowager shifting\\naround her chair from the card-table, adjusting her spec-\\ntacles, and then intently employing her double vision to\\ncriticise the young thing just produced in public.\\nD", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON I\\nA politician who, with equal case, 155\\nCan twine a courtier, or a parson please\\nShine to the one, the gay, the gallant duchess,\\nWhose passions fly, whose virtue limps on crutches\\nWhile t other, edified by looks so holy,\\nThanks Heaven that greatness now s divorced from\\nfolly 1 99\\nWith mind too noble for her rustic dear,\\nShe takes his tame four thousand pounds a vear\\nIn fashion s circles keeps alive his name,\\nAnd makes him shine (his all) with borrow d fame;\\nDestin d the glory of his house to prove, 195\\nAnd but withhold that trifling thing her love.\\nThus Hanover s bold sons, in mighty power,\\nWear our red jerkins, and our beef devour\\nShake the parade, or make th exchequer light,\\nAnd any thing for Britain do but fight. 200\\nAnd yet a loftier note the muse might swell,\\nOf peers led captive by her magic spell\\nLine 100.] Jt is a current opinion among the wor-\\nthy parsons in a northern province, that there is not such\\nanother theologian in petticoats.", "height": "3144", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. -7\\nDrawn to the altar with a wond ring heart,\\nWhile passion blows upon the stem of art.\\nSee mushroom princes pluck d at, as they shoot,205\\nYet for her vigour prove too firm at root\\nTvvas not a Roman matron s high-born pride,\\nNo Roman virgin would be thus allied\\nSee her the puppet s humbling scorn repair,\\nAnd find a nobler match in R l s heir. 210\\nThus o er the realm her soaring kindred spreads,\\nAnd her fair offspring mount the loftiest beds\\nAmbition bends him from his air-built shrine,\\nHis vot ry cheers, and hails her half divine\\nL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P D\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of R\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of M\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of B\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSay not my epic quill o erflows with gall, 215\\nOr spirts around a venom d juice on all\\nLine 203.] In the days of Republican Rome the\\ndaughter of a Patrician family would have scorned\\nto match with the highest foreign king, and still more\\nwith a prince of Corsica Rome had fallen to the dust\\nD 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "-8 KPICS OF TIJE TO.V\\nEager to praise, where praise can be allow d,\\nI haste to snatch black cygnets from the crowd.\\nFrom vale, from garden, where the lily grows,\\nO bring its sweets, my muse, and join the rose 920\\nThe loveliest wreathe around their temples bind,\\nAnd hold them forth a pattern to their kind.\\nThrough in the giddy rounds of fashion bred,\\nThiough all its follies by example led\\nWith every beauty which the bosom warms, 225\\nWith every talent which the fancy charms\\nThough from the cradle to the altar blest,\\nAdmir d and follow d, flatter d and carest\\nYet them no reigning folly e er has claim d,\\nNo rampant vice amidst her vot ries named 230\\nNo tongue, in this licentious age, has shed\\nIts pois ning slander round their marriage bed\\nBut meekly shrinking from the public gaze,\\nThey court alone the modest matron s praise;\\nbefore even ancient royalty could tempt her high-born\\ndaughters into the arms of a barbarian.\\nLine 2X8;] Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno.\\nJuvenal.", "height": "3156", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 29\\nAnd placed in scenes of glare, of noise, and strife,235\\nSeek for no fame that misbecomes a wife.\\nIn vain the very mother s sought in these,\\nOne half retrench d, and t other purged of lees\\nSo have I seen a mountain torrent pour\\nWith troubled waters, and with angry roar 240\\nThrough noisy cat racts tumble down amain,\\nAnd rush with threat ning billows on the plain\\nBut there arrived, its blust ring waves divide,\\nAnd o er the mead, in gentlest riv lets glide,\\nUpon whose verdant banks sweet violets grow, 245\\nAnd on their surface water-lilies blow\\nSoothed by their gentle murmurs, shepherds dream,\\nOr love to sip from their pellucid stream.\\nLine 248.] The reader will observe that the author,\\nwith infinite good nature, and an anxious wish to give\\nunmingled praise, has here said nothing of the scandalous\\nreports of C 4*^ d Row, the prodigious sum lost in\\none night, the wrath of his G e, the intended sale\\nof plate, equipage, c. c. with several other little\\nmatters among the gossips. But let it be remembered,\\nthat as deserved praise is the choicest meed of virtue,\\nso unqualified applause, where censure is due, becomes\\nthe most bitter satire.\\nD 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 EPICS OF THE TON\\nFrom thy fair stem, what tempting fruits have\\ngrown,\\nLike thee, to every gazing trav ler known 250\\nIn fashion s hot-bed mellow d into prime,\\nOne lovely peach has dropt before its time\\nYet still its sister fruits, from golden stalks,\\nTheir fragrance scatter o er the courtly walks\\nWhile with sweet smiles that might inflame a stone,\\nThe d h ss kindly warms her apple-John. 256\\nO happy mother once a blessed wife\\nO cheery widow in the vale of life\\nSome card for fashion, and some dice for fame,\\nBut wiser he who mingled wit with game 260\\nE en kept the table, pander d to the fun,\\nAnd turn d the penny, whoso lost or won.\\nHence his full coffers pond rous guineas strain\\nHence his bright honours flourish d with his gain\\nHence stands his name inscrib d mid courtly gods,\\nFor teaching English nobles Capuan modes 266\\nLine 266.] A description of the Neapolitan nobles,", "height": "3152", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE EOOK.\\nHence shine his daughters in the foremost place,\\nFor who outvies my Lady, or her Grace\\nwhich will no doubt be very edifying to our imitating\\nhigher ranks, I shall extract from the celebrated Kotze-\\nbue, who, two years ago, visited them The higher\\nclasses of Naples are the savages of Europe. They eat,\\ndrink, sleep, and game. They neither have nor want\\nany occupation but this last. The states of Europe are\\noverthrown they game not the less. Pompeii comes\\nforth from his grave still they game. The earth\\nshakes Vesuvius vomits forth flames yet the gaming-\\ntable is not forsaken. The splendid ruins of Paestum,\\na few miles distant, so glorious a spectacle, are disco-\\nvered only by strangers for the Neapolitans are gaming.\\nThe greatest dukes and princes are keepers of gaming-\\ntables. A Prince Rufando, one of the most considerable\\nnoblemen of the country, keeps the first gaming-house\\nin Naples and besides his, there are twenty others of\\nthe same description. Thither all the great world are\\nseen driving at the approach of evening. Strangers\\nmust be presented by some acquaintance yet this is\\nonly a form. The stranger makes a slight inclination to\\nthe host, who as slightly returns it but it is a rule that\\nnot a word is uttered. In other respects it is like being\\nat a coffee-house, or worse than a coffee-house, for\\nthere one can have what he chuses for money but here\\nare no refreshments, except perhaps a glass of water, after", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nHence his gay widcw in her chariot wheels,\\nAnd counts six tall stout footmen at her heels 270\\nhaving ordered it ten times of the servant. A large but ill\\nfurnished drawing room is the rendezvous of rouge et\\nnoir and faro. A pile of chairs heaped up in a corner\\nof the room proves that a numerous company is ex-\\npected. Scarcely have the gaudy throng rushed in,\\nwhen they seat themselves, with greedy eyes fixed on\\nthe heaps of gold which glitter on the table. These\\nmeetings are called conversaziones, but no one here must\\nattempt to converse. We hardly dare whisper a single\\nword if any thing more is attempted, an universal\\nhiss commands deep silence and attention to the myste-\\nries of the game. Old women, particularly, sit either\\ngathering up money with their long bony fingers or\\nwith their green out-stretched eyes fixed on the rouge et\\nnoir table, lamenting the capricious decrees of fortune.\\nEven handsome young women here degrade the dignity\\nof their sex, setting beauty and the graces at defiance.\\nThe princess N., for example, is a professed gamester.\\nMany others come to make new conquests, or to secure\\nthe old in both which businesses they lay no restraint\\nupon themselves. A stranger is at the first look ap-\\nprized of each lady s favourite. The husbands are ei-\\nther absent, or concern themselves not the least about\\nthe women for of the execrated Italian jealousy here is\\nnot a single vestige. Even divines and children game", "height": "3156", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 33\\nGlad to behold her offspring like herself,\\nAs gay, as painted, and as full of pelf;\\nStill hovering round her former fields of fame,\\nThe ball, the masque, the concert, and the game:\\nSo ghosts their former scenes of pleasure haunt, 275\\nWith eye deep-hollow d, and with aspect gaunt\\nIntrude on human sight at close of day,\\nAnd fright the younglings at their moonlight play.\\nGo finish out thy course as it began,\\nNor break at sixty thy consistent plan 260\\nFor thy keen brows the muse shall holly bring,\\nTo suit the verdure of thy latter spring.\\nD of S\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A\\nHaste, clear the pavement, call the crowd to stare!\\nHer swan -leg d footmen, and bright lacquer d chair,\\nAnd hoop to nose, proclaim S A there 285\\nfor example, the daughter of the Marquis Berio, who\\nis not more than eight years old. The Marquis is one of\\nthe most enlightened noblemen. Some maintain that\\nthis degrading traffic brings the Prince Rufando five\\nthousand ducats a year. Others say that he receives not\\nmore than twelve ducats a day for converting his palace\\ninto a gaming-house", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSay who shall more adorn the courtly scene\\nOr turn aside more gazers from the queen\\nMore through the rooms the general buz create,\\nOr more confound the gapers at the gate\\nMore catch the town, or in the Post next day 29O\\nEngross more lines, more wond rous things display\\nNor be her glories to the world unknown,\\nThese brilliant charms are fairly all her own\\nShe has poor nature veil d with skilful art,\\nThrown rich amendments o er each faulty part; 295\\nAnd colours not vouchsafed the human face\\nCull d from the shrub, the mine, and strow d with\\ngrace,\\nSo nicely touch d her frame from top to bottom,\\nAnd all her charms so alter d since she got em,\\nLine 284.] Every one must be convinced of the\\npropriety of this metaphorical allusion to the legs of\\nswans, unless indeed that these bipeds have not yellow\\nclocks to their black silk hose.\\nLine 2Q1.] The attractions of a newspaper containing\\nthe court dresses, both to those who have been, and\\nthose who have not been to this scene, are indescribable.\\nA beau might win his mistress by being the first, next", "height": "3156", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 35\\nThat with the knowing, tis an even bet, 300\\nIf she or nature s most in other s debt.\\nDii\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of D\\nSuch moons may shine, when thy bright sun is\\ndown,\\nO born to grace the vale, and gild the town\\nOn Chiswick s banks, a flower that woos the sight,\\nIn London s throngs, a dazzling blaze of light. 305\\nNo servile rhymester now begins the lay,\\nAnd sings, like Tom, for favour, or for pay\\nNo rich rewards come glitt ring from the tomb,\\nNo gaping flatt rers seek to pierce its gloom.\\nmorning, to bring her this epitome of every thing\\ncharming.\\nLine 309.] It is rather mortifying to the love of\\nposthumous fame, to observe how much more a person\\nof great celebrity in the fashionable world is greeted\\nwith complimentary poems while alive than by elegies\\nafter death. A Nelson, whose praises every one is for\\na season ready to hear or a Pitt, who has left behind\\nhim a party that may yet be in power, is indeed more\\nfortunate, and bespattered with nauseous applauses in\\nmany thousand hobbling couplets. But the unhappy", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 EPICS OF THE TON,\\nHadst thou still bask d the wing in fashion s beam,\\nThe muse had flapp d thee in thy golden dream 3 1 1\\nOr sung a second to some yelping cur,\\nAnd raked for gold, perhaps, the dirt of S r\\nfashionables, when laid in the dust, are seldom c\\nof producing more than a single Delia Crusca sonnet in\\na newspaper. For the benefit and warning of my read-\\ners of this class, it may not be unseasonable to mention\\nan anecdote of the Earl of Shrewsburj a famous\\ncourtier in the days of Queen Elizabeth. He had, in.\\nhis life-time, erected his own tomb, and caused a long\\ninscription, containing a summary of all his transactions,\\nto be engraved upon it omitting only the date of his\\ndeath, which it was impossible for him to divine. So\\nwell did this courtier understand mankind, that he fore-\\ntold his heirs would neglect to make even this small ad-\\ndition to the inscription and so it happened for the\\nspace which should contain the date of his death remains\\na blank to this day\\nLine 313.] A report was industriously circulated that\\nthis mawkish piece of would-be scandal had actually\\nkilled the illustrious personage it attempted to expose.\\nSurely her thread of life must have been reduced to a\\nsingle hair, if the flap of this moth s wing could snap\\nit asunder But the report had the desired effect and\\nseveral editions of this apology for a novel, were sold\\noff on the strength of an imaginary lady-slaughter", "height": "3156", "width": "1784", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 37\\nOr wept that virtues, form d to bless mankind.\\nShould lose the kernel, and retain the rind 315\\nThat a heart, warm with charity and love,\\nA prey to sycophants and knaves should prove\\nThat nature s softest feelings should be lost,\\nAmidst the waves of whirling folly tost\\nKeen though they were to sorrow or delight, 320\\nAnd sweetly warbled from the Alpine height\\nThat talents dear to genius, mark d for fame,\\nShould still be wasted at the midnight game\\nOr rack d, next day, to find some new supply,\\nAnd bilk a tradesman w^ith a shew to buy 325\\nLine 321.] Re-echoed from the harp of Delille, those\\nstrains have rendered the genius of their author not\\nless known and admired on the Continent than at home.\\nLine 525.] How indispensable are laws what a\\npoor security would mankind derive either from genero-\\nsity, or from shame, if the authority of the magistrate\\ndid not come in aid of these uncertain restraints How\\nstrongly is this evinced by the example of those orders\\nwho, in various countries, are privileged to cheat their\\ncreditors, without being subject either to have their\\nestates seized or their persons imprisoned One should\\nimagine that the proud feelings of birth, the dread of\\nE", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nThat she, of softness, past her sex possest,\\nFelt the mad passions of the gamester s breast\\nstaining a title derived from illustrious ancestors, the\\nconsciousness of being so prominently placed in the eye\\nof mankind, would prevent a noble from acting the\\npart of a mean, .paltry, sordid, knave. Yet what is\\nmore common than to see a titled swindler pledge\\nhis faith and his honour for the payment of debts, which\\nit has never entered his thoughts to discharge. The in-\\ndustrious tradesman is robbed of his property and\\nruined while his plunderer, secure in the privileges of\\na peer, laughs at the misfortune, continues his course of\\nswindling, revels in the most expensive debauchery, and\\ntransmits his estate unimpaired to his posterity. For\\nthe sake of justice, for the sake of their own honour,\\nthe worthier part of the peerage ought loudly to demand\\nthe abolition of this privilege. To the honourable it is\\nuseless it is worse than useless, for it enables knaves\\nto bring on their order unmerited disgrace.\\nWhile I thus address the peers, it may not be amiss\\njust to hint to the peeresses, that it is inconsistent with\\ncommon honesty to give in exchange, for valuable goods,\\ntheir note of hand, which they know to be not worth a\\nfarthing. It is quite as bad as passing a bit of waste\\npaper for a bank-note. Still more disgraceful and wor-\\nthy of Botany Bay it is, to purchase goods of an honest\\ntradesman, and carry them, unpaid for, to the auc-", "height": "3156", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 39\\nOr urged by faction midst the rabble tribe,\\nShould kiss a greasy butcher with a bribe\\nUnskill d, discretion with her warmth to blend, 330\\nNor lose herself through zeal to serve a friend.\\nBut, censure, hush a sacred silence keep\\nLet Loves alone and Graces come to weep\\nLet tears sincere her human frailties mourn,\\nNor flatt ring lies hold up her tomb to scorn 335\\nWhen envy long is dead, and passion calm.\\nHer own soft lines shall best her name embalm.\\nM of S^^f\\nMuse can st thou ride, can st gallop o er the plain,\\nAnd leap a five-barr d gate, and head the train\\ntioneer, to procure a sum for the discharge of a\\ngambling debt\\nLine 329.] It was certainly an ingenious device to\\nheighten the value of a guinea, to place it between the\\nruby lips of a lady of high fashion, and thus let it drop,\\nin the act of kissing, into the liquorish mouth of the\\nchuckling voter. The gentlemen of Newport-market\\nlike it hugely and would not have been without such\\na kiss for twenty guineas.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40 EPICS OF THE TONS\\nScour as, onbroomstick-hunters, ancient witches,340\\nAnd save thy modesty by buckskin breeches\\nOr name the pack, and shout the learn d halloo,\\nAnd do all else, that jolly huntsmen do\\nThen mayst thou come in guise of vig rous spark,\\nAnd kiss thy gallant sister in the dark. 345\\nOr thou may st turn, these brilliant feats to crown.\\nFrom hunting hares, to hunt religion down\\nStill hold thy concerts on the sacred eve,\\nAnd Porteus spurn, and Rowland cause to grieve;\\nLine 349.] It would be injustice to the excellent Bi-\\nshop of London not to take every opportunity of holding\\nup to praise and imitation his zealous efforts to prevent\\nthe day appropriated for public worship from being\\nturned into an interval of licentious revels. It is no dis-\\nrespect to couple with his name that of a man who may\\ndiffer from him in some speculative questions, but who\\ndeserves to rank even with the bench of bishops for\\ndeeds of charity and indefatigable benevolence. The\\nabuse here alluded to, the profanation of the sabbath,\\nis a favourable pastime among our higher orders. I can\\nforgive a laborious mechanic, or a sickly shop-keeper,\\nwho has all the week long been imprisoned in a confined\\nalley, and compelled to breathe unwholesome air I\\ncan forgive him for making an excursion to the country", "height": "3148", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 4 1\\nWhile hundred chariots, rattling round the square,\\nAlarm the choir, and drown the evening prayer; 351\\nAnd big Squallante s notes to soar begin,\\nWhile drabs without list demireps within.\\nC of B\\nYet quit the chace, my muse, however hot\\nPoor Laura s fate it must not be forgot 355\\non Sunday, or enjoying with his friends the recreation\\nof a tea-garden. But when I see persons whose every\\nday is a day of leisure, who seem born only to enjoy\\nthe blessings of their Creator, refuse to devote to his\\npublic service the day which the laws have appointed for\\nit and even ambitiously endeavour to bring contempt\\non the institution, by rendering it the particular season\\nof their revels I feel indignant that such wanton irre-\\nligion should be suffered to pollute the morals of a na-\\ntion. When I see such practices prevalent among the\\nhigher orders of society, I cannot help recollecting with\\na sigh, that the unfortunate Antoinette of France began,\\nby a studied profanation of the day of worship, that\\ncareer which she ended on a scaffold. Long may that\\nconspicuous reverence for religious institutions, which\\ntheir majesties have ever manifested, avert such calami-,\\nties from our land", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42 EPICS OF THE TON I\\nUnhappy Laura Why that heart-broke sigh\\nAnd why that piteous roving of thine eye\\nWhy bear st thou still that care-worn look of woes\\nWhich ever seek, but never find repose\\nHast thou not wealth to tempt the gazing crowd 360\\nHast thou not titles to allure the proud\\nA feeling heart for others woes to grieve,\\nAn open hand their miseries to relieve\\nYet dost thou seem as if the world were glad,\\nAnd thou of all thy human kindred, sad. 365\\nCrowds, noise, and pomp, but barb the mental ail,\\nShe seeks relief in the sequester d vale\\nWhere Scotland s giant mountains threat the skies,\\nAnd half impending o er the trav ller rise\\nWhere gullies deep are fill d with torrents black,370\\nStill thund ring down the endless cataract\\nWhere sombre firs, amid the summer green,\\nA gloomy aspect shed o er all the scene\\nWhere rocks, asunder rent by Nature s throes,\\nTheir horrid shelves in frequent gaps disclose 375\\nWhere to the jutting herb, on crag too high,\\nThe haggart goat uplifts the rueful eye", "height": "3156", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 43\\nThere where the plover s ever dreary lay,\\nStill breaks the cheerless silence of the day,\\nPoor Laura sat beneath the stunted tree, 380\\nUnwilling to be seen, and sad to see\\nThe scene was dismal, and o ercast the day,\\nYet was her heart more doleful still than they.\\nO fortune, where is now thy envied bliss\\nO flaunting titles, are your joys like this 385\\nSorrows there are which riches cannot sooth,\\nNor rank allay, nor tender friendship smooth j\\nWhich wring the heart through every secret hour.\\nAnd midst the busy haunt its peace devour\\nWhich only fly when life and joy are flown, 390\\nWhich only rest beneath the silent stone\\nThere shall her sorrows cease, her cares be o er,\\nWho adds to misery s list one Laura more.\\nof M-\\nI love to find a woman that can spend\\nAn evening chearful with a single friend 305\\nE en by herself, not quite her soul devour,\\nAnd half a day work pleased on half a flower", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nNor from her books have every hour to spare,\\nNor, mad for knowledge, to Count s Lounge repair\\nThat haunt where ladies catch new themes for tattle,\\nAnd learned grow by S dn y s pretty prattle, 401\\nOr, with the rage of science deeply bit,\\nHear D^vy oxydate poor S^-dn y s wit\\nLine 39\u00c2\u00a3).] So called from the title of its founder,\\nand from the uses to which it is applied.\\nLineAOl. This gentleman had the unrivalled merit\\nof reducing Moral Philosophy to the level of a fashion-\\nable audience, and of converting metaphysics into capi-\\ntal fun. For some time nothing was talked of at the west\\nend of the town but his witty sayings j and had not a\\nrich living, the just reward of his merits, stopt his\\nmouth, he might in time have borne away the palm\\nfrom Joe Miller. It is certainly a very happy faculty to\\nhave the power of being facetious on all occasions j and\\nof witticizing, with equal felicity, while lecturing on the\\ndoctrines of Reid, or reviewing a volume of sermons.\\nLine 403.] The boldness of the attempt was not equalled\\nby its success. Chemistry, it would appear, is not so\\npromising a subject for humour as metaphysics and\\nit is not every one that is born a wit. It is not every\\nday that Astley can pick up a Grimaldi, or Harris a\\nMunden, or B- rn d a S\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3156", "width": "1776", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 4 5\\nThe flaws of science with a fiddle botch,\\nAnd haste from chemistry to Dr. Cr-G-teh 405\\nOr self- applauding puffs both hear and see,\\nWhere dun-skin d oils from water-colours flee;\\nAnd still to aid the lecture tame and vague,\\nTh example comes, and shouts twas done by\\nC-g!\\nO give him setters fee d for half a crown, 410\\nTo catch him rich admirers o er the town\\nLine 405.] An experimental lecture on music cer-\\ntainly forms a very delicate accompaniment for experimen-\\ntal lectures on metaphysics and chemistry. Dibdin, at\\nhis Sans Souci, in Leicester Square, first introduced\\nthe fashion of spouting, playing, reciting, strutting, de-\\nmonstrating, diverting all in a breath and it would\\nhave been strange indeed if the proprietors of the Rev .I\\nyuMiu n had not adopted so successful an expedient\\nfor collecting an auditory.\\nLine 411.] This is a hint not to be omitted by\\nartists. A friend stationed in a coffee-house may ap-\\npear to be there for pleasure as well as for business the\\nconversation may naturally enough turn on the subject\\nof portrait-painting; and without exciting suspicion,\\nL or M or N or O may be men-\\ntioned in the highest terms of applause, as the first ar-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46 EPICS OF THE TON\\nOn this bright shrine of science deck d so gay,\\nMuse, turn to place thy tributary lay\\nThis shrine, where ladies wits on flame are taken,,\\nAnd offer d up red hissing hot to Bacon. 415\\nIn times now quite from modern mem ry flown,\\nIn days before our grannam s beards were grown,\\nThe fair who boasted any thing to know,\\nBut just to toss a fan, or sport a beau,\\nSelect a bonnet, or a ribbon match, 420\\nCompose a simper, or adjust a patch\\nThese wiser fair, with knowledge drawn from book,\\nCould shame the butler, or astound the cook\\nTwixt spice and gravy trace each choice alliance,\\nThe Kitchen Guide their sum of nat ral science. 425\\ntist of this sort in the universe. A visit to the reposito-\\nries of the said initials,, and a subsequent order for a\\nvery fine (but not very laborious) picture may be the\\nconsequence. In such a case, it can be but a trifling\\ndiminution of the profits, to put a guinea into the hands\\nof so useful a friend.\\nLine 4 \\\\5.~\\\\ It may be questioned how far suck hu-\\nman sacrifices are acceptable to this grey-bearded deity.", "height": "3152", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 47\\nStill at their needle were the hussefs seen,\\nStill at those works which now but grace a queen;\\nThe flowret rose beneath their fost ring hands,\\nAnd lovers were secured in netted bands.\\nIf nobler themes caught some sublimer soul, 430\\nShe learnt those truths which passion s heats controul;\\nLine 425.] A treatise on cookery, well known about\\nhalf a century ago.\\nLine 427.] While ladies of fashion, in the present\\nday, are almost as much unacquainted with the use of\\ntheir needle, as with baking of bread, cooking dinner,\\nand weaving broad cloth, which, as we learn from\\nHomer and Virgil, were the common employments of\\nprincesses and ladies of quality, in the time of the Trojan\\nwar it is not a little to the credit of the queen of Great\\nBritain, that she is not less dexterous at needle-work\\nthan any of her royal ancestors. I have seen ladies,\\nwho had scarcely wherewithal to buy their finery, ex-\\ntremely proud of having never hemmed a frill, or em-\\nbroidered a handkerchief for themselves. It appeared\\nto them an indisputable mark of gentility that they had\\nnever been taught to employ an hour, cheerfully and\\nusefully, in those works which become a woman. If\\nthey were capable of feeling it, tis a bitter satire on\\nsuch pretenders to fashion, when their foolish vanity is\\nreproved by an example from the throne.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "48 EPICS OF THE TON 1\\nImbibed the duties of the wedded life,\\nTo guide, the mother, and to bless, the wife\\nHow in the highest paths unenvied shine,\\nSee wealth and splendour pass, and not repine; 435\\nHow suit her actions to a frail abode,\\nAnd meet, at length, with hope and love her God.\\nLine b3~.~\\\\ It is curious to observe the difference\\nwhich existed in the education and pursuits of learned\\nladies of fashion in the barbarous days of King Henry\\nthe Eighth, and in the present times. The Lady Jane\\nGrey, before she was twelve years old, was mistress of\\neight languages. She wrote and spoke English with\\nelegance and accuracy. French, Italian, Latin, and\\neven Greek, she possessed to remarkable perfection\\nand she had made some progress in Hebrew, Chaldaic,\\nArabic. Yet in the pursuit of these extraordinary ac-\\nquisitions, she did not fall into any neglect of those\\nuseful and ornamental arts, which are peculiarly desirable\\nin the female sex. The delicacy of her taste was displayed\\nin a variety of needle-works, and even in the beauty and\\nregularity of her hand-writing. She played admirably\\non several musical instruments, and accompanied them\\nwith a voice peculiarly sweet. Though of noble and\\nroyal descent, she did not think herself excused from\\nthe performance of any of her duties, and her cultivated\\nmind enabled her to think, speak, and reason, with", "height": "3152", "width": "1780", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 4()\\nBut modern fair ones, with a nobler pride,\\nThese paltry means, and silly ends deride;\\nDash with advent rous aim through Physic laws,440\\nAnd find for each effect a nat ral cause.\\nastonishing propriety, on the most important subjects.\\nWith these qualities, her good humour, mildness, and\\nhumility were such, that she appeared to derive no\\npride from all her acquisitions. One day when her fa-\\nther and mother, the Marquis and Marchioness of Dor-\\nset, with all their attendants, were hunting in the park,\\na learned gentleman, who came on a visit to the fa-\\nmily, was astonished to find the Lady Jane at home,\\nreading Plato in the original. On his enquiry why she\\nomitted sharing in the pastime which the others were\\nenjoying in the park Alas, said she, these good\\nfolks never felt what pleasure is. Their sports do not\\ndeserve the name, when compared with the enjoyment\\nfurnished by Plato. At sixteen, this beautiful young\\ngirl performed the duties of a wife with the same ex-\\ncellence as she had previously done those of a daughter.\\nAt seventeen, condemned to die by the sanguinary\\nMary, she laid her head on the block with composure,\\nand died like a Christian. It is needful to apologize for\\nintroducing this aukward old story; but it is done mere-\\nly to shew how well our modern ladies of fashion have\\nsucceeded in rubbing off the rust of former times.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "50 EPICS OF THE TON\\nHear them descant on Carbon s varied use,\\nAnd o er the pudding talk of gastric juice\\nShew boils and gout to be, with all their pains,\\nCaloric s vacillation in the veins 445\\nHysterics but some hydrogenic frolic,\\nAnd chyle coquetting bile the cause of cholic.\\nWhen Sancho scents the room, no prancing Sir\\nStarts up in haste to oust the whimp ring cur\\nThe blest occasion seize the anxious fair 450\\nTo snuff the properties of phosphate air.\\nLine 445.] According to the new and prevailing\\ntheory of the day, gout and other similar inflammations\\nare produced by an accumulation of caloric, or fire, in\\nthe part affected and hence the very natural remedy\\nhas been adopted, of pouring cold water on the part, to\\nextinguish the distemper. Query, whether boiling\\nwater would not do as well It certainly extinguishes\\na common fire quite as rapidly.\\nLine 447.] It is also a late theory that pains in the\\nbowels result from the chyle refusing to mix properly\\nwith the bile a very rational theory, and very fit to be\\nunderstood by the ladies.\\nLine 451.] The author has here taken some liberties\\nwith chemical language, probably from discovering its un-", "height": "3140", "width": "1776", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 51\\nFrom Davy s dapper feats, so quick to view,\\nConverting red to green, and green to blue,\\nNow burning gases, and now quaffing air,\\nTilJ tipsy quite he sinks beside his chair 455\\nWhen Flora s pores distend with vernal pith,\\nNow haste the fair to catch the laws of S h\\nTo know if charming Darwin they may trust,\\nWho sung the feats of vegetable lust\\nAnd learn if true it is that nature droll 460\\nShould perk thus in our face the queer corol.\\ntractability in poetry but all his learned and fair readers\\nwill readily perceive what he means. But if they\\nfind fault with his poetical licence, candour will\\noblige them to applaud his delicacy, since he li n s\\nonly talked of snuffing up, without alluding to the more\\nfavourite experiment of producing a beautiful fire-work\\nby holding a lighted candle to when\\nLine 452.] This gentleman is the well known inven-\\ntor of the celebrated invisible liquor termed the oxyge-\\nnated oxyd of azote. Only a few ladies of the first\\nrank have been admitted to the honour of getting muddy\\nwith this liquor j and for the sake of appearances, even\\nthose have been introduced only one by one, at conve-\\nnient time and place.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "33 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSay, noble count, why not enlarge thy plan\\nAnd to the sex unfold superior man\\nOn table spread, with weapon anatomic,\\nRipt up from head to foot, from back to stomach,\\nHow many a secret would the scene disclose 466\\nHow many a cause whence vast effects arose\\nOf moral science are the sex devoid\\nNo here their thoughts are grand, their knowledge\\nwide\\nThey know th* attractive, the repulsive force, 470\\nWhich through all naturehold their sov reign course;\\nWhich wed the acid with the alkali,\\nAnd make the magnet now embrace, now fly\\nWhich spring the mushroom, and which grow the\\nman,\\nThe appearance varied with the varied plan. 475\\nLine 467. It is to me inexplicable why the proprie-\\ntors of the R flV Kft^-n, have omitted to introduce a\\ncourse of anatomical lectures for the fair sex. It would\\ncertainly be productive of far more entertainment than\\neither moral philosophy or botany, and would attract\\nmuch larger audiences.", "height": "3156", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 53\\nMoved by these powers men long to eat and drink,\\nAnd learn at length that strange odd thing to think\\nThe air in eddies, words yclep d, propel,\\nAnd now good subjects make, and now rebel.\\nDo these strong powers the bosom kindly move ?4SO\\nAll reason thaws, all melts the heart to love.\\nAct they in concert Virtue joys our eyes\\nBut do they quarrel The result is vice.\\nWhile these inform our organized pipe- clay,\\nAnd in our bosoms hold their genial play, 485\\nThen are we said to live but should they fly,\\nAnd quit their vibrating disport, we die.\\nFor life and death, vice, virtue, conscience, reason,\\nThese forces make, and end them all in season.\\nThe dreams which fools indite of Heaven and Hell,\\nThe curse of crimes and bliss of doing well j 4QI\\nOf Gods and Devils, fables of old women,\\nAre made to suit such bedlamites as Boehmen.\\nRepelled, attracted, still we live and when\\nThis motion ceases, we are clods again. 4g5\\nLine 405.] My learned readers are not unacquainted\\nwith the fashionable modern theory that all the phen 5=\\nF 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "54 EPICS OF THE TON\\nGo on ye fair your learned course pursue,\\nAnd do as nature s impulse bids ye do\\nMay fate your labours crown, make famed your life\\nNay, make you any thing if not my wife.\\nM\u00c2\u00b1\u00e2\u0080\u0094-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of A\\nWhat joys of wine make th art ry throb so high,\\nAs rapture trembling in the female eye? 501\\nWhat ills so deep the manly bosom move,\\nAs woman s anguish mix d with tears of love\\nOn the bleak beach before the gazing crowd,\\nTo hear these piercing plaints, these shrieks so loud\\nmena of being, all the actions and motions both of body\\nand soul, result entirely from various modifications of\\nchemical attractions and repulsions, acting on inert\\nmatter. This is a charming theory for besides that it\\nfully accounts for every thing, it fairly gets rid of all\\nthose foolish notions of future responsibility, heaven,\\nhell, and so forth, which have so long annoyed the ima-\\nginations of men, and converted many a delicious attrac-\\ntion and repulsion into horrible sins.\\nLine 504.] This tender scene took place some years\\nago, on the pier at Ramsgate, during the embarkation\\nof our troops for the continent.", "height": "3156", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 55\\nTo see that bosom, white as bolted snow, 506\\nHeave, as twould burst, by swelling pangs below,\\nO er that fine brow the dews of death to trace,\\nWhile all his lurid hues o erspread that face;\\nTo see those polished limbs convulsive start 510\\nTill fainting nature fails to do her part\\nTo know that all these agonizing woes\\nAre barb d by feeling, and from love arose;\\nWho would not weep her tears, and sigh her moan,\\nAnd wish her tender sorrows half his own 6 15\\nYet stay These tears no mother s love bespeak,\\nAnd for no husband seems that heart to break\\nNo early friends mishap, or parents ill,\\nThese limbs convulse, that face with anguish fill\\nHer babes, her husband, could that tender dame\\nUnmoved abandon for a wanton flame 521\\nCould pant with rapture in th adulterer s arms,\\nAnd feed the guilty riot with her charms.\\nLine 506.] The fanned snow\\nThat s bolted by the northern blast\\nthrice o er.\\nSlIAKSPEAREi", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56 EPICS OF THE TON I\\nNow her gay paramour is call d to wield\\nAnother armour in another field; 525\\nFor amorous stratagems in Venus wars,\\nTo meet Bellona s wrath and bloody scars\\nExchange, for dank morass, the wanton s bed,\\nWhile hostile glances seek his tempting red 529\\nHence heaves her breast, and hence her colour dies\\nFor now, what lips shall drink her glowing sighs\\nWhat panting breast shall on her bosom pant,\\nRaise each desire, and satiate every want\\nMake all her widow d nights with transport burn,\\nAnd shame and guilt to rapt fruition turn 535\\nFor thee, fond fair, let kindred fair ones feel,\\nTheir sorrows mingle, and their joys reveal\\nGloat o er their pleasures for some passing years,\\nThen waste their harrowing age in penitential tears\\nThe child that sees another soundly whipt 5\\nIs near as frightened as if he were stript\\nAnd shuns, lest he a like mischance should feel,\\nTo rob the orchard^ or the cheese-cake steal.", "height": "3156", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 57\\nBut our grown children see their fellows stray,\\nAnd sad correction meet them on their way 545\\nFrom wealth to penury, fame to scorn descend,\\nMock d while they live, unpitied in their end\\nYet unregarded is the warning given,\\nAnd all unheard the voice, the acts, of Heaven\\nNew vot ries still the fatal joys entice, 550\\nStill gay and thoughtless, folly sports with vice.\\nShe, that once held her name, the theme of scorn,\\nDoes the thought move the sprightly\\nThe Abbey, sees it now a calmer day,\\nIts guests less numerous, or its sports less gay 555\\nThere is high luxury less profusely quafFd\\nAre those who drink less madden d with the draught?\\nOr the fair hostess less be-paragraph d\\nLine 558.] It is to be apprehended that Cobbet, the\\npolitical executioner of our age, will put this practice\\nof be-paragrap/iing in the newspapers out of counte-\\nnance, or at least that he will render the encomiastic effu-\\nsions insufferably tame and spiritless. His comments on\\ntwo famous dinners, the one given in honour of an\\nactress, the other given by a company of actors in ho-\\nnour of their manager, have done much to shake the\\nnerves of more than one candidate for fashionable fame.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "5 S EPICS OF THE TON\\nNo .\u00e2\u0080\u0094Scenes more costly now enchant the hall,\\nAt midnight concert, or at morning ball 560\\nA Thespian temple here, bedizen d o er,\\nNow oft receives a whole dramatic corps\\nWhere mushroom warriors learn to strut their hour,\\nAnd Buonaparte, snug at home, devour\\nLine 564.] There is nothing in which the officers of\\nour guards have so remarkably evinced their superiority\\nover the troops of the line, as by their great excellence\\nin enacting of plays. It is astonishing how genteely\\nsome of these gentlemen can play the hero with what\\na terrible swagger they shake their foils and how man-\\nfully they drive the enemy behind the scenes. Although\\nthey should not be able to prevent Buonaparte s march\\nto London, yet assuredly if he can be prevailed on to go\\nto a private theatre, and see these mighty warriors\\nfrown, bellow, stamp, and shake the boards, it cannot\\nfail to frighten him back over the channel. Admirable\\nschool for valour Excellent plan for raising the dignity\\nof the army But private theatres are not a less admi-\\nrable seminary for female chastity than for male he-\\nroism 5 and therefore we cannot sufficiently applaud\\nthose parents who permit their daughters to exhibit their\\npretty limbs betimes in tempting attitudes, in these pub-\\nlic-private resorts of the loving and languishing.", "height": "3156", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 59\\nWhere high-bred dames, more given to deal in fact,\\nCon o er betimes what they eftsoons enact 566\\nWhere grace and gambol mix a thousand ways,\\nAnd Kemble spouts in state on holidays\\nWhere verdant laurels deck the lustrous scene,\\nAnd quite eclipse the greybeard M g e. 5 70\\nGo on, fair dame, enjoy thy summer hour,\\nNor think of snows that chill, or skies that lower\\nNor to your lord his manlier pleasures grudge,\\nWho now a hunter blows, and now a judge;\\nWhile monkeys wear a tail, or stags a horn, 575\\nThou shalt be talk d of with thy\\nH-\\nWhen lovely E quitted first her cot,\\nIn honest way to seek her future lot\\nBy frequent curtsey humbly won renown\\nAnd nicely plaiting of her lady s gown 5\\nEven then her rival beaux were seen to vie,\\nThe coachman bluster, and the valet sigh.\\nWhen next, promoted, (near that lofty fane\\nWhere stamp the mimic gods of Drury Lane,)", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nShe by a fuming altar stood so dight 585\\nIn gown with sleeves abridged, and apron white\\nThe fragrant slice dissever d from the loin,\\nThe trencher warm d, or pour d the barley-wine j\\nIn wedgewood bason dealt the smoking soup,\\nAnd, trippling, cast a leer upon the groupe; 590\\nWith knowing smile return d the leer or jest,\\nNor veil d her ankle fine, or swelling breast\\nHow many a swain in love and luxury wallow d,\\nGazed as he chew d, and gloated as he swallow d\\nOr while his eyes and tongue would play the fool,\\nForgot his joint, and left his steak to cool 5Q6\\nWould drink in rapture with his nut-brown ale,\\nAnd count the cost that surely might prevail\\nNow, in this temple, once where bucks ne er fared,\\nAnd but hard-finger d tradesmen once repair d, 600\\nLured by the priestess, rhyming templars whine,\\nAnd players spout, and chuckling brokers dine.\\nNor wonder man, frail man, was here undone,\\nWhere woman s charms were all combined in one\\nLine 585.] In common discourse, the dresser of a\\ncook s-shop.", "height": "3156", "width": "1760", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 61\\nHere tempting lips with tempting bosom strove, 605\\nHere polish d limbs with eyes that wanton rove\\nHer body suited to her beauteous face,\\nEach smile was love, each motion was a grace\\nHere might the eye an endless banquet steal\\nFrom what the kindly folds but half conceal 610\\nAnd with well-suiting soul that scorn d the prude,\\n(Here prudery was too much for flesh and blood)\\nWhen sighing, panting, Strephon warmly prest,\\nHer gentle nature made her Strephon blest.\\nSome scenes there are which all unveil d should lie,\\nSome joys too sacred for the vulgar eye j 6 1 6\\nThese no unhallow d artist e er must shew,\\nBut those who taste them, those alone must know\\nThe vagrant muse, eves-dropping late at night,\\nShall ne er reveal them to the garish light 6*0\\nWith wary hand she draws the curtains close,\\nAnd lovers safely on her faith repose.\\nBut say what eye discerning found the gem\\nThat well might sparkle in a diadem\\nLute 6*24.] Thy liberal hand, thy judging eye,\\nThe flower unheeded shall descry\\nG", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62 EPICS OF THE TON\\nBrush d it from rubbish, polish d and new- set,\\nWhence yet a brighter destiny it met, 626\\nLodged in old Virtuoso s cabinet\\nNow E s polish d limbs, and motions fine,\\nHer mien majestic, and her step divine,\\nPlaced in their proper sphere, at court display d, 630\\nMake longing nobles haunt the glowing maid\\nWhile the more favour d sons of blest virtu,\\nHer charms, like mother Eve s embellish d, view.\\nShall raise from earth the latent gem,\\nTo glitter in the diadem\\nGray.\\nLine 627-] Whether this jewel of the first water was\\nsold for a great sum, or given as a present, is not agreed\\namong historians. The latter, however, seems most\\nprobable, as it was only among friends.\\nLine 6 l 29.] There is no one to whom these poor un-\\nhappy hacknies have been so often applied\\nGrace was in all her steps heaven in her eye,\\nIn every gesture dignity and love.\\nLine 630.] Mistake not, gentle reader, it was not\\nthe antiquated court of Great Britain.\\nLine 633.] And is, when unadorn d, adorn d the\\nmost.", "height": "3156", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 63\\nHere hacknied sculptors strange emotions own,\\nAnd on this study gaze themselves to stone 635\\nHere sunk-eyed painters check the mounting blood,\\nAnd catch, with trembling hand, an attitude\\nThe embellishments here alluded to are such as the fair\\nEve wore before *he saw the necessity of the fig leaf\\nor such as decked the beauteous queen of the foolish\\nPhrygian prince, when he exhibited her to the entranced\\neyes of Gyges. It is said that the great superiority of\\nthe Grecian sculptors and painters in the delineation of\\nthe female form, proceeded from their studying the\\nliving subject in this most elegant attire; and the vir-\\ntuoso alluded to was too great a lover of the fine arts,\\nnot to employ his mistress or his wife thus innocently\\nfor their promotion.\\nLine 635.~\\\\ It is curious to observe the effects of\\nhabit in blunting the edge of our most unruly propensi-\\nties. An accoucheur daily approaches the finest women\\nwith as much indifference as a grocer s apprentice looks\\ninto a hogshead of sugar. It is the same with those\\nmeagre-faced sons of the fine arts, who are daily gazing\\non, and nightly dreaming of the beauties of nature.\\nThey study a fine woman, with the same emotion, whe-\\nther she be formed of flesh or marble and it is perhaps\\nan exaggeration to suppose any beauties so luxuriant as\\nto excite in them the emotions of ordinary men.\\nG 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64 EPICS OF THE TON\\nNow in some tempting posture view her near,\\nAs once she lay to blinking M sq r r 5\\nNow as a sleeping Venus all confest, 640\\nWhile wanton Cupid sports around her breast.\\nLo high in state, and near the sceptre seen,\\n(Fear d by a court, embosom d by a q\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nE shews talents far beyond her kind,\\nAnd, great in fortune, shines more great in mind j\\nState-secrets now she wins by state intrigues, 6iO\\nAnd enmities conceal d, and treach rous leagues\\nKnows how to bribe the most unbending wight,\\nAnd, if she fails by day, succeeds by night j\\nCan sift a counsellor, unlock a king, 650\\nAnd lead a captive court in magic string\\nCan act the patriot, warn her native state\\nOf lucky seasons, or of threaten d fate\\nBy well plann d hits a double purpose gain,\\nEnact a heroine, and a hero chain. 655\\nMinds, to bear away, must suit the state they\\nhold,\\nGrave in the church, and in the navy bold\\nKeen at Change-alley, vent rous still at Lloyd s,\\nAnd most discreet where G nv e all bestrides.", "height": "3156", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 65\\nThus a soft creature, touch d by courtly air, 660\\nCould wield the scourge, and laugh at mute despair\\nLet loose hell-furies on a people s head,\\nNor shrink when fathers, mothers, husbands, bled\\nMake the pale hero aid the murd rous scene,\\nAnd e en outdo a scepter d heroine 665\\nHer private vengeance sate mid public strife,\\nAnd think it kind to spare her victim s life\\nAh what avails, with soul like this, to find\\nSuch charms of person with such powers of mind\\nCould heaven-born love approach these bloody stains,\\nCould feeling melt where vengeance fires the veins\\nScandal may still reproach the hero s name, 672\\nWho left his wedded love for thee and shame\\nOr modern virtue may deride the charge,\\nAnd hold a heart, when profligate, is large 675\\nIn vain they palliate, needlessly they blame,\\nSuch deeds, bright fair, must fix a deathless fame.\\nHer name all gone, departed all her dears,\\nPoor E sinks into the vale of years\\nSometimes, by starts, produced to public view, 680\\nWith crazy G or obscene old Q", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66 EPICS OF THE TON\\nOr, match d with big Squallante, strains her throat,\\nWhile sister-sympathies attune the note.\\nSometimes new-gifted by the public tongue,\\nWith titled lover, or with husband young j 685\\nYet soon these rumours, like her beauties, fade,\\nAnd scorn conducts her to the wintry shade\\nWhat picture should we say were drawn to life,\\nA promis d peeress, and a statesman s wife\\nA portly figure, not quite six foot high, 69O\\nNor twixt the shoulders three, yet very nigh\\nWith full bare bosom that defies the wind,\\nWell-suiting breast-work to the tower behind\\nWith open count nance, that disdains to hide,\\nEye proudly rolling, and majestic stride 6Q5\\nLimbs such as huntress Dian once did own,\\nWith fair round flesh upon no spindle bone\\nWho scorns to shrink from our inclement air,\\nArms, ancles, bosom, neck, and shoulders, bare j\\nWhose voice her inward greatness not belies, 7OO\\nNot speaks but thunders, lightens, and defies 5", "height": "3156", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 6?\\nWho in all scenes supports an equal name,\\nHigh struts at court, high ventures in the game\\nSuch is the picture, truly drawn to life,\\nA promis d peeress, and a statesman s wife 5 705\\nE en such is she who stoutly holds the rein\\nO er him whose double strings had burst in twain.\\nL- C ^C-a diU\\nFrom Scotia s mountains, heralded by fame,\\nYoung, noble, beautiful, Belinda came;\\nThan her s no brighter lineage graced our isle, 710\\nHer sire the great, the good, the loved A**j* e\\n(A patriot race, who mid all perils stood,\\nAnd seal d their country s freedom with their blood 3\\nPluck d from a recreant prince the diadem,\\nAnd saved for Brunswick s much-loved race the gem;)\\nHer sire still oped his hospitable door 716\\nTo glad the stranger, and relieve the poor\\nFair rose his palace, nobly spread his lawn,\\nYet seem d as much all others as his own\\nLine 707.] One of them, indeed, is knotted again\\nfor the present) but most people are of opinion that\\ntis a running knot, which will slip at the first pull.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68 EPICS OF THE TON\\nIn grove or grotto play d the village train, 720\\nAnd every stranger trod the cultured plain\\nHis happy tenants bore th unwrinkled brow,\\nAnd live for ever was the gen ral vow.\\nThus nobly sprung, Belinda s charms unfold\\nMore than is given to birth, or bought with gold\\nThe rose and lily blending in her face, 726\\nAnd all expression beaming through all grace\\nHer peerless figure such as poets feign,\\nWhen Venus first ascended from the main\\nSee how her motions vibrate to the heart, 730\\nSee every limb a master-piece of art\\nNot Venus self knew more alluring wiles,\\nOr more bewitching, more eternal smiles.\\nNo damp, no cloud, o erhung her opening day,\\nStill witty, wanton, frolicsome, and gay 735\\nThe ground she tript seem d livelier from her tread,\\nThe hearts she pierced throb d sprightlier as they\\nbled.\\nNo prudish mopish arts she deign d to try,\\nNor grudg d her beauties to the kindling eye\\nStill seen where fashion held her trophied court\\nStill known the foremost in the throng d resort #41", "height": "3156", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 69\\nNo vot ry sought a smile, and sought in vain\\nNone praised unheard, unnoticed told his pain\\nAverse her bounteous soul to hide a charm\\nWhich nature gave so many hearts to warm, 745\\nHer ling ring foot, the chariot mounting slow,\\nDisplayed the ancle to the circling beau\\nThe welcom d eye perused her melting shape,\\nAnd half forgot the intervening crape.\\nThat season past, when, on the natal day, 750\\nPoor Pye still labours through his annual lay\\nLine 74$.] It was rather too liberal to exhibit with\\nsuch a pellucid fig-leaf in the drawing roomj and how-\\never mortifying it must have been for the surrounding\\nyouths to be deprived of the spectacle, yet certainly a\\ngreat personage acted consistently with decorum, in de-\\nsiring the naked to be cloathed before appearing in\\npublic.\\nline 751.] We read of a wretched poet who was\\nemployed by Alexander the Great to sing his praises, on\\nthe condition that for every good line he was to receive\\na hundred pieces of gold, and for every bad one a hun-\\ndred lashes. Tradition says that the poor poet did not\\nlong survive the bargain, which proved as bad for him as\\nthe sentence of a modern court-martial. Had the same\\ni", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70 EPICS OF THE TON\\nWhen hoops and farthingales in great distress\\nHigh bolt upright are seen amidst the press\\nNow all, but splay-foot cits from London, strain.\\nTo brace their nerves against the next campaign\\nThe gay Belinda seeks her native shades, 756\\nAnd shines the fairest of the Grampian maids.\\nHere joyous summer spreads so bright a hue,\\nThe meads so green, the distant hills so blue\\nSo glassy clear expands the inland lake, 76*0\\nSo rich in varied charms the forests shake\\nSo chearful Nature gambols o er the plain,\\nIn youth s first bloom, just freed from winter s\\nchain\\nThat southern climes may boast their double spring,\\nAnd fruitage cull d through every season bring ;7G5\\nbargain been struck with our Poets Laureate the country\\nwould hare saved many an annual hundred pounds.\\nLine 752.] It is inexpressible how much the dignity\\nof the court is supported by retaining these pieces of\\nancient deformity in dress. Will the nature of real\\ngrandeur never be understood", "height": "3156", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 71\\nTame, listless, dull, their changeless scenes appear,\\nNor know the varied joys of summer here.\\nHere too Belinda, sick, of London toys,\\nFound fresh delights, and brighter-blooming joys\\nAn honest steward, from her sire s domains, 770\\nWith thrifty hand had cull d no trivial gains\\nHis thousand pence had swoln to thousand pounds,\\nAnd rich and ample rose his purchased bounds\\nBright vvheel d his chariot, fair his mansion stood\\nNone but a Celt had guess d his want of blood. 775\\nA son he had, and thereby hangs a tale,\\nA manlier youth ne er trod a highland vale;\\nWith stately figure and with shoulders broad,\\nThat well might ease old Atlas of his load\\nHis well-made limbs, health, strength, and vigour,\\nbraced, 7S0\\nHis open count nance bloom and courage graced j\\nBy youths like these fair ladies hearts are won/\\nThough dapper elves may squire them through the\\nTon.\\nBelinda saw him Need the rest be said\\nBelinda sigh d that she was still a maid j 735", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "7 EPICS OF THE TON\\nAnd when the youth, who fear d to look so high,\\nPerceiv d, yet durst not read her speaking eye,\\nShe felt twas folly thus unblest to prove,\\nGrow green and yellow, and not tell her love\\nThe Gordian knot she cut and then with pride 790\\nThe wond ring youth embraced his high-born bride.\\nWith him she d bear the knapsack, scorn the crown,\\nAnd pleased forsakes the follies of the town.\\nD of R-\\nAs youthful monarchs grace an ancient realm,\\nAs sapling vines adorn the ripened elm 795\\nAs yearling shoots, in aged trunks new set,\\nSap from their pith, strength from their vigour get j\\nAs slender woodbine, join d to moss-grown walls,\\nNew beauty gives, and fattens as it crawls\\nLine 780.] She never told her love,\\nBut let concealment, like a worm i th bud,\\nFeed on her damask cheek She pined in thought,,\\nAnd with a green and yellow melancholy,\\nic She sat, like Patience on a monument,\\nSmiling at grief*\\nSlIAKSPEARE-s", "height": "3156", "width": "1776", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 73\\nSo ancient widows match d to youthful spouses, 800\\nAnd bringing with them store of lands and houses,\\nNew deck the beaux, themselves new deck d appear,\\nThe youth full pockets gets, the dame fresh cheer.\\nNo wedded ills their wiser hymens know,\\nTo teaze the gamesome belle, the frolic beau 805\\nShe ne er shall mourn for splendid fetes declined,\\nSix months deformed, and six weeks more confined\\nLine 807 To a lady of taste and fashion this is a\\nmatrimonial grievance altogether insupportable. What\\ncan there be in a silly bantling a source of vexation\\nwhile young, and perhaps a rival when it grows older,\\nto recompence such a vacuity in life, such a separation\\nfrom every thing delightful, such deformity, such\\nlongings\\nMatri longa decern tulerunt fastidia menses\\nFortunately that same round of enjoyments, which\\nrenders the evil insupportable, also tends powerfully to\\nits prevention. A high-born, high-bred, high-fed lady\\nis rarely troubled with too numerous a brood, Were\\nshe to litter like the wife of a peasant, good heavens\\nthe thing would be past endurance j and the advertizing\\nquack near Temple Bar would have to strike out an-\\nother private entrance.\\nH", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThe mother s dire dilemmas ne er shall know,\\nTwixt saving shapes, and humouring Rousseau.\\nLine 800.] Most of my readers are not ignorant cdf\\nthe violent perturbation which this officious and wild en-\\nthusiast excited, about twenty years ago, among the\\nhigher female circles of Paris and London. He was po-\\npular, he was universally read his opinions were the\\nguides of the times, the rage of the fashionable world.\\nHe seized this opportunity to expose the shameful apathy\\nof mothers, the cruel dereliction of babes. With his\\nglowing pencil he depicted the miseries to which the\\nunhappy infant is abandoned, when delivered over to the\\ncare of a hireling nurse. He shewed the absurdity of\\nsupposing that a mother, who has strength to bring a\\nchild into the world, is not also provided with means\\nand power to afford its natural nourishment. If mothers\\nwere deaf to the calls of humanity, and unmoved by\\nthe softest appeals of nature, he called upon their self-\\nlove not wantonly to throw away that filial tenderness,\\nthat delicate plant which they ought to nourish from\\ntheir breasts, and which would prove the shade, the\\nsolace, and the pride of their declining years. To the\\nunnatural dereliction of infants, he traced that total\\ndisregard of parental authority, which diffused licentious-\\nness almost from the cradle, and rendered the ties of\\nparent and child the chain of lasting wretchedness.\\nTo these sentiments the name of Rousseau forced at-\\ntention. His reasoning was sound, his eloquence pa-", "height": "3156", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 7 5\\nShe, sweetly lapt in John s encircling arms, SIO\\nShall ne er be waked by bantlings night alarms\\nthetic, his satire poignant and irresistible. Mothers now\\nbegan to perform, from shame, the duties which they\\nhad refused to the voice of nature and the Parisian\\ncircles of fashion soon saw the miraculous spectacle of\\nyoung women, lovely, gay, and noble, suckling their\\nown children. Britain in time imitated an example,\\nwhich her boasted morality ought to have set. The\\nDuchess of Devonshire, who, with many human fail-\\nings, possessed a warmth of heart, and a vigour of mind\\nrarely found in her sex, and still more rarely in her rank,\\nled the way in this honourable reformation and shewed\\nthat the duties of a mother could be performed without\\ndisgrace, and that the life and happiness of a child were\\nto be purchased even with a temporary derangement of\\nthe bosom.\\nUnfortunate Rousseau Let not this verdant wreathe\\nbe scattered from thy tomb. Thy failings were many,\\nthy errors not a few yet thy frailties may be palliated\\nby thy education and thy distresses and even over thy\\nvices a veil may be thrown by the most cruel malady in-\\ncident to human nature. Thy vhtues ought not to\\nperish, nor thy services to mankind be forgotten. Let\\nthose moralists who would hoot thee from society, lay\\ntheir hands on their hearts, and say what social benefit\\nthey have conferred equal to that now related. It was\\nH 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76 EPICS OF THE TON\\nNor daily forced maternity to feign,\\nAnd all her feelings fore each guest to strain.\\nShe ne er, sequester d from the courtly throng,\\nShall meditate her schemes the woods among, 815\\nWith what old trunk her blooming grafts to join,\\nWith manor vast, and much be-quarter d line\\na vice which seemed incurable a vice the mother of a\\nthousand vices\\nHac fonte derivata clades\\nIn patriam populumque fluxit.\\nLine 812.] This is another terrible piece of constraint\\nunder which the effects of Rousseau s doctrines have\\nlaid fashionable mothers. It is not enough that they\\nsuckle their infants they must also have them near\\nthem, caress them, amuse them, shew an interest in\\ntheir welfare. To render this drudgery more sup-\\nportable, ingenious mothers have thought of employing\\nthe occasion as no bad opportunity to make a display of\\nfeeling. The children are accordingly produced before\\nall guests the fond mother is seen hanging round their\\nnecks, dropping tears into their little bosoms, casting\\nher eyes to Heaven, giving thanks for these dear pledges,\\nand for a heart that can feel the blessing This new\\nfashion has a new name it is called maternity and is\\nat present accounted one of the prettiest modes in which\\na lady of the Ton can display her sensibility.", "height": "3156", "width": "1764", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 77\\nOft ponder o er the wily, vent rous plan,\\nTo hide her purpose, and entrap the man\\nHow from seclusion her ripe fruits to draw, S20\\nAnd burst upon the town with most eclat\\nLine 82 i The following description includes the\\nmost improved plan of procedure for a woman of fashion\\nwho has a daughter. The plague of having her conti-\\nnually in the way, from the time she quits the nurse s\\narms, till she can be produced in form to the world, is\\nbeyond all patience, if one is placed in the region of\\nlife, and new pleasures every moment press to be en-\\njoyed. Besides, the creature, if at home, must often\\nbe seen by visitors in this interval her face becomes\\nfamiliar to every one, and she is quite stale before she is\\nintroduced, or published, as it is termed. Her debut at-\\ntracts no attention it is but as an old play revived.\\nTis a miracle if the thing takes and if she does not\\nhang on one s hands for five or ten years to come.\\nQuite as bad is it to send her to a boarding-school the\\naukward ignorant baby returns at sixteen, Mrs. Chapone\\nin her head, and her feet a la d Egvillej the oddest\\ncompound ever huddled together and no more fit for\\na drawing-room than a donkey for Rotten-row. Be-\\nfore such an animal knows how to manage her eyes and\\nfingers, her freshness is quite gone, and all the world\\nafter a new phenomenon. In this dilemma, it was a\\ngallant thought of the Marchioness to let her town-house\\nH 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78 EPICS OF THE TON\\nHow, quaintly turn d, the paragraph to frame.\\nJust hint the talk, and half produce the name\\nfor a term of years, immure herself resolutely in the old\\ncastle undertake, with the aid of a Parisian governess,\\nto mould her growing daughter into something human j\\ngive her a glance of every accomplishment and teach\\nher to play them off to the best advantage: then, the\\nnecessary period of her durance expired, cause her house\\nto be repaired, and new furnished, have her preparations\\nfor return blazoned abroad, and then re-appear in the\\nworld like a comet from the outskirts of its orbit. The\\nscheme succeeded to her wish the beautiful Maria cap-\\ntivated all men, and was carried off in three weeks by\\none of the first peers of the realm. Nor did the Mar-\\nchioness lose by her long captivity her face had all the\\ncharms of novelty as well as her daughter s and the old\\nMarquis having died during her recess, she soon tasted\\nthe sweets of a new honey-moon. Her example has\\nsince been the guide among women of spirit, as may be\\nyearly seen in the columns of our fashionable news-\\npapers.\\nLine 822.] This is a circumstance which ought to\\nbe carefully attended to as few things are of so much\\nimportance as the announcing paragraphs. They\\nshould be inserted in the Post or Herald at some of\\nthose fortunate intervals of public attention, when there\\nis nothing so singular as to be talked of by every one.", "height": "3156", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE PEMALE BOOK. 79\\nWard off, with pious care, and eye so wary,\\nThe lacquey, captain, gard ner, pothecary 825\\nThe following form of a paragraph for announcing the\\nre-appearance has met with approbation\\nIt is with infinite satisfaction that the fashionable\\nworld have learnt the arrival of Lady D with her\\nlovely daughter. No one had forgot the shining figure\\nwhich her ladyship made, when she yielded to the feel-\\nings of maternal tenderness, and sacrificed all the joys\\nof splendour and admiration, to devote herself to the\\neducation of the beautiful Louisa. That delicious\\nblossom is now matured and the fruit is as rich as it is\\ndelicate. Nor are the merits of Lady D without\\nreward. Besides the inexpressible pleasure of seeing\\nher daughter all-accomplished, the fresh air and tranquil\\npleasures of the country have given a tint to her com-\\nplexion, and a lustre to her eyes, as captivating as they\\nare uncommon. We do not wonder that such a crowd\\nof expecting youths attended at the door to see the\\nlovely pair alight.\\nThe following paragraph, announcing an intended\\nunion, appeared lately in the papers, and is certainly a\\nmodel\\nWhatever our contemporaries may have said, we\\ncan, from the best authority, contradict the reported\\nunion of the Earl of and Lady D s beautiful\\ndaughter. Such indeed is the enchantment of that be-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON J\\nTill, to a spouse consign d her troublous charge,\\nAt length the weary guardian s set at large.\\nwitching creature, that we do not wonder his lordship\\nshould have adventured., among so many others, for the\\ngolden fruit. She, however still smiles to all, favours\\nto none extends yet we could name a noble and gal-\\nlant marquis who has caught some glances which so\\nmany would have died to gain. Should his success be\\nas marked at the bonny duchess s grand party of fashion-\\nables, where the charming pair will this evening meet,\\nhe will cause many a noble swain to wear the willow.\\nLine S25.] Instances have lately occurred in which\\npersons of all these descriptions have carried off Right\\nHonourable fair ones in triumph. Nor ought this to\\nexcite our surprise. That education which teaches the\\nyoung mind to regard external shew and splendour as the\\nsupreme good, and the arts of catching a man of rank\\nand wealth as the only useful acquirements, imparts no\\nreal dignity to the character. The female becomes de-\\ngraded in her own estimation, and is conscious of no\\nmeanness where appearances can be saved. But the\\nheart will have its longings as well as the eye and\\nwhere a fine coat, and a fine fellow, are fairly balanced\\nagainst each other, it is ten to one if opportunity does\\nnot turn the scale. An education which should inspire\\nreligious and moral principles, and impart real dignity to", "height": "3156", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. bl\\nTo him, the pressing claims of custom s duns,\\nA snug provision for the younger sons^\\nA tempting dower to gain the daughters love, 830\\nShall ne er the stud displace, or game reprove.\\nHe ne er with body curv d, and cap in hand,\\nBefore the Premier s strutting form shall stand j\\nRecount his members, and his votes recall,\\nAnd represent his boys are now grown tall 835\\nBeg him his fortune s gaping wounds to heal,\\nAnd fix his leeches on the common weal.\\nthe mind, would be a surer guardian of female virtue,\\nthan the watchful dragon of the Hesperian gardens.\\nLine 837.] I have often wondered at the absurdity\\nof those persons who call out for an abolition of sinecure\\nplaces and pensions, and represent them as useless in-\\ncumbrances. Useless In the name of common sense,\\nif these were abolished, how is it possible that the\\nyounger branches of our noble families should be de-\\ncently provided for It is impossible for the most\\nwealthy nobleman to provide for a number of sons and\\ndaughters, without impoverishing the family fortunes,\\nwithout wounding the aristocracy to the quick, without\\nendangering a lamentable decay of the most flourishing\\nbranch of our glorious constitution. But by means of", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82 EPICS OF THE TON\\nOn one long level road of bliss unbroke,\\nThis joyous team shall draw the silken yoke\\nThe same delights which bound them first together,\\nShall still remain untouch d by time or weather ;841\\nWhile bloom her fields, her dividends are paid,\\nHer yearly board with large rack-rents are spread,\\nWhile to his purse a full supply is brought\\nHe gets whate er he seeks, whate er he sought; 845\\nAnd while in equal plenty shines her gold,\\nWhat is t to him although she grows more old\\nNor are her joys with liberty eloped\\nShe shines one winter more than once she hoped\\na large supply of pensions, and of places befitting the\\nhabits of a nobleman, these evils are averted. The\\npeer is enabled to expend his whole income in maintain*\\ning his splendour he transmits his estates unimpaired\\nto the heir of his honours and the nobility are pre-\\nserved in their ancient predominancy over the rest of the\\ncommunity. To procure such transcendant advantages,\\nis it not proper that a large portion of our taxes should\\ngo to maintain the younger branches of noble houses\\nIs it not expedient that, to use the energetic language of\\nMr. Fox, the lower classes of the society should be\\ndriven from the parlour to the garret, and from the\\ngarret to the cellar", "height": "3152", "width": "1756", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 83\\nThe fashion leads from scandal s shafts exempt,\\nStill bears the honour of the power to tempt S51\\nAnd sure till all her wishing days are past,\\nHer Strephon s charms, and vig rous port shall last.\\nIn ancient Troy, a town well known to fame,\\nA hero liv d, Sir Pandarus his name, 855\\nTwas his, when warriors loosed the chariot team,\\nOr courtly dames threw by their wool to dream,\\nLine 855.] So called by Shakspeare.\\nLine 856.] In the times of the Trojan war, as\\nHomer informs us, all the great warriors went to battle\\nin chariots, and generally acted both as postillions and\\ngrooms to themselves. It is probably in imitation of\\nthis ancient and renowned custom, that our modern he-\\nroes are so frequently found mounted on the coach-box\\nin the appropriate dress, and intermingled with their\\nundistinguishable lacquies in the stable.\\nLine 857.] The ladies of the same age were em-\\nployed chiefly in preparing .woollen stuffs for the men j\\nand, strange to tell the fair ones of Priam s court were\\nuncommonly notable wool-combers, spinsters, weavers,", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84 EPICS OF THE TON I\\nTo read the wishful look, the longing eye,\\nAnd whisper soft of blest occasions nigh,\\nOf mutual flames, of interviews conceal d, 860\\nAnd dear delights to Nox alone reveal d.\\nTwas his through lanes untrod, and alleys dark,\\nAt noon of night to lead th advent rous spark,\\nWhere in disguised attire, unseen convey d,\\nAll-tuned to rapture glowed the panting maid. 865\\nand tailors. It appears, however, that Cupid was no-\\nwise deterred by a distaff: but as there were, in that\\nage, no routs, balls, gaming-tables, operas, masque-\\nrades, at which one could meet another, the good offices\\nof such kind-hearted gentlemen as Sir Pandarus must\\nhave been of uncommon utility.\\nLine 86*1.] It is pleasing to see traces of the rites of\\nancient times still preserved. The goddess Nox was, in\\ndays of old, peculiarly favourable to all the votaries of\\npleasure and freedom, and was hence the particular ob-\\nject of their admiration. In our days, such is the grati-\\ntude of the whole world of fashion, as well as of sharp-\\ners, that they scarcely perform any of their mysteries\\nunless under her influence.\\nLine 863.] The moon\\nRiding near her highest noon.\\nMilton,", "height": "3152", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. Sj\\nIf deathless laurel round his temples shines,\\nSuch wreathes as Cyprus rears, and Shakspeare\\ntwines\\nWhile warriors vast like nameless donkies rot,\\nAnd Troy itself is sought where Troy was not\\nThough midst a colder race, and colder clime, 870\\nWhere frost-bit pleasure scarce e er gained its prime,\\nO ne er the genial dome forgotten be,\\nWhere love unbinds the zone, and revels free\\nWhere, from hot suppers, titled dames repair,\\nNor all-work hacknies seek, or curtain d chair 875\\nLine 86*7.] See the play of Troilus and Cressida, in\\nwhich the feats of Pandarus are held forth to the admi-\\nration and imitation of all posterity.\\nLine 86*9.] Vide the researches of Mr. Gell, c. c.\\nLine 875.] It may here be necessary to remark that\\nladies, once admitted into the circles of fashion, and\\nwho afterwards so far save appearances as to live on cer-\\ntain terms with their husbands, and to avoid a prosecu-\\ntion in a court of law, may be, and are, visited freely,\\nand without any danger of scandal. This consideration\\nought to be most seriously weighed by all females of dis-\\ntinction. They have ample latitude allowed them by\\nI", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86 EPICS OF THE TON\\nAll loose to joy in nature s charms confest,\\nUnheard embracing, and unseen embraced j\\nNor dreading ought that not with love accords,\\nThe lash of sland ring tongues, or jealous lords.\\nHere, under cover, billet doux convey d 880,\\nNor fear the careless page, or prying maid\\nThrough hands well-skill d the assignations speed,\\nFresh blooming heirs to barren beds succeed,\\nAnd gentle maids from leading apes are freed.\\nSage sophs of old have labour d to attain 885\\nThe happiest point of mingling joy with gain\\nA vain pursuit for dolts like them to think of,\\nWhoscarce felt pleasure oft ner than the chin-cough\\nour generous customs; and surely it cannot require\\nmuch skill, in the present state of things, to avoid\\nbeing found out. In former times, unsuspected hack-\\nney-coaches, and close chairs were resorted to as the\\nmeans of concealment Now the affair is much more\\nsecurely managed under the protection of a privileged\\nname.\\nLine 886 i* Omne tulit punctual, qui miscuit utile\\ndulci.\\nHorace.", "height": "3156", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 87\\nA wiser Pandara of modern time,\\nAs scandal tells, made bliss with profit chime 890\\nHere set the dice, enkindled there the flame,\\nAnd still, from mantling pleasure, cull d the game.\\nDoes fortune smile, and does she win the bet\\nThe happy lover hastes to pay the debt\\nDoes fortune frown No avarice Cupid knows\\nHis claim the joyful paramour foregoes. S96\\nThus, never losing, still the hostess wins,\\nAnd plenteous guineas spring from teeming sins.\\nof D-\\nThough sweet its odours, and though bright its\\nhues,\\nBy kindly suns matured, and summer dews, 900\\nHow many a flower puts forth the bloom, and dies,\\nUnknown to fost ring hands, or wond ring eyes\\nHow many a virgin, like the desert flower\\nCondemned to distant vale, and silent hour,\\nAll unregarded, wastes her blooming prime, 0,05\\nAll unregarded, yields her charms to time\\nI 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "88 EPICS OP THE TON\\nThough never cheek disclosed a softer die,\\nThough never beam d a more alluring eye,\\nThough never bosom with more am rous swell,\\nInflamed the gay, or made the saint rebel 910\\nThese all in vain benignant nature rears,\\nAn Ex ter comes not in a hundred years.\\nNo eye to read, no scene to shew her charms,\\nSome clown receives her in his callous arms;\\nHer humble office, mid neglected shades, 915\\nTo tend her younglings, ply domestic trades,\\nTo keep the keys, and scold the loit ring maids.\\nBut happy she, by brighter stars design d,\\nTo shine in public and attract mankind\\nLine 912.] This nobleman, as report says, deter-\\nmining to procure a woman, whose heart dissipation\\nhad not debauched, and who should love him entirely\\nfor his own personal merits, disguised himself like a\\npeasant, and in this attire betook himself to the labours\\nof husbandry in a distant part of the country. Here,\\nby happy chance, he met with the object which he\\nsought 5 and in his blooming bride found innocence\\nwithout affectation, love without avarice or ambition,\\nand beauty fresh from the hands of nature.", "height": "3144", "width": "1800", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 89\\nAnd all her charms to all advantage seen, 920\\nNow smile the goddess, and now step the queen\\nNe er from her lips, the accents, faltring, slow,\\nLike miss from boarding school s ungraceful flow\\nFull, free, matured, the notes sonorous rise,\\nAnd plaudits loud are mix d with silent sighs. 925\\nCast in the shade, by other objects crost,\\nNo motion fine, or witching leer is lost\\nCaught by a thousand eyes, borne on bright feather,\\nTalk d with the news, and ponder d with the weather.\\nTo scantling nature, here does licensed art 930\\nA richer hue, and mellower shape, impart\\nBy neighb ring rouge, the brighter eyes convey\\nMore brilliant glances to their panting prey;\\nLine 928.] Borne on bright wing.\\nMiltox.\\nLine 933.] This is the modern justification for wear-\\ning rouge, as black patches were formerly worn to set\\noft the whiteness of the skin. I confess it would be\\nunjustifiable to deny this ornament to the ladies of the\\nstage, whose glances have to shoot athwart the gloom\\nprofound of Drury Lane theatre only, as a friend, I\\nwould advise them not to daub it on so abominably", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "QO EPICS OF THE TON\\nWhile floating robes, from fashion s newest mould,\\nJust what she wills, and as she wills, unfold. 935\\nHence little Nell o er Charles bore sovereign sway,\\nWhile crowds of rival beauties pass d away\\nthat each cheek reminds the people of the galleries of\\nhung beef painted on a sign-board. As to other ladies,\\nI have nothing at present to say to them. Let those,\\nwho are curs d with wall eyes, e en rouge to give them\\nsomething like lustre. But it shall ever be my opinion,\\nthat countenances, which have any thing to express,\\nwill always express it and that the eyes will always\\nsparkle when the heart expands with gaiety and good-\\nhumour.\\nLine 935. Vide Parisot, c. c.\\nLine 536.] Nell Gwyn, the celebrated mistress of\\nCharles the Second, maintained a considerable sway over\\nhim, in spite of that licentious monarch s unbounded\\npassion for variety. She was a person of infinite good-\\nhumour, and bore the rubs incident to her situation with\\nperfect composure. It is told of her coachman, that,\\nbeing one day insulted by a brother-whip with the jeer\\nthat he served a w he stript and asserted his\\nhonour in a sound bruising match. Nell was attracted\\nby the noise of the scuffle and on learning the affair\\nfrom her coachman, Pugh said she, why do\\nyou get yourself bruised for what eyery one knows", "height": "3144", "width": "1816", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 91\\nHence Polly Peachum, with her smirking face\\nShone first a Duke s sweet friend, and then her\\nGrace.\\nZ ds, ma am, replied the coachman, every one\\nmay know that you are a w but every one is not\\nto say that I serve a w To the honour of this\\nfrail sister be it told, she was almost the only patroness\\nof the unfortunate Otway. We find, by his lamenta-\\nble dedications to her, that the hereditary nobles, those\\nchosen guardians of merit, saw this fine genius sinking\\ninto the grave from the pressure of poverty, while he\\nturned his fainting eyes to the bounty of an actress and\\na prostitute The times, it may be said, are changed\\nAlas within our own memory, such was the fate of\\nunhappy Savage. Deserted by the nobility to whom he\\nwas allied, abandoned to profligacy and hunger, the rem-\\nnant of his miserable life was protracted by a pension\\nfrom Mrs. Abingdon.\\nLine 939.] The celebrated Polly was first mistress to\\nthe late Duke of Bolton, and, after the death of his\\nwife, became his duchess. Nor must we here omit an\\nanecdote of the late famous critic and divine, Dr. Joseph\\nWharton, as it reflects so much honour on the liberality\\nof the Church, in countenancing the poor frailties of the\\nage. The Duke s first wife had long been sinking under\\na lingering illness, and every day was fondly expected\\nby the lovers to be her last. During this sickening in-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nHence stale G i, saw her very floor 940\\nWith Tyrian purple quite bedizened o er\\nterval of hope deferred, his Grace and Polly resolved to\\ntravel but as he was anxious to raise his fair compa-\\nnion to the honour of his legal bed-fellow, as soon as\\nthe course of nature should free him from his present\\nburden, he thought it proper to be accompanied by a\\nchaplain, who should perform the ceremony without\\ndelay as soon as the departure of the old duchess should\\nbe announced. For this honourable purpose Dr. Jo-\\nseph Wharton was selected, and made no scruple to\\nquit a small living and his pastoral duties, for an agree-\\nable tour and the hopes of future preferment. Some\\noccurrences, however, made him sensible that there\\nwere some little inconveniencies incident to a clergyman\\nfollowing promotion in the train of a chere amie and\\ntherefore, after dancing attendance for some time, and\\ndespairing that the wished for event would ever arrive,\\nhe took his leave, and returned to England. But\\nscarcely had he set his foot on his parsonage, when the\\nunlucky Doctor learnt that the Duchess was dead He\\ninstantly wrote to the Duke, humbly requesting that he\\nmight be permitted again to wait on him, and tie the\\nhappy knot. But the impatient lovers had already bor-\\nrowed the aid of the chaplain to the English embassy at\\nParis, and poor Wharton had nothing for his pains but\\nthe recollection of his tour and his honours.", "height": "3144", "width": "1836", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 93\\nSaw to her arms a pr ly lover given,\\nWhom M y could not bind, nor vows of heaven.\\nHence hoyden J n rears her triple brood,\\nAnd decks the last with gouts of r 1 blood; 945\\nHence to her fetes a princely host repair,\\nAnd Cobbet sounds abroad the bill of fare,\\nWhile saints look blue, and sinners cry, O rare\\nLine 941.] Tyrian purple is, in plain English, scarlet.\\nAs it formed the celebrated dress of a certain noted lady\\nof Babylon, it is with uncommon propriety applied to\\nornament all females of a similar description.\\nLine 044.] The epithet hoyden is applied here in ho-\\nnour of the personage in question, since it is from the\\nrepresentation of this character that her brightest laurels\\nhave sprung. I have applauded her in the Romp, and\\nadmired her in the cobler s wife, but how she acts the\\nprincess I cannot say, for I have never seen her in that\\ncharacter.\\nLine 947.] I cannot conceive why Porcupine should\\nhave been so very indignant at a great personage handing\\nthe fair maid with many children to her seat of ho-\\nnour. Does he not think that she is perfectly good\\ncompany for or or Or, in\\ntruth, can he allege that she is not every way quite dig-\\nnified enough for the station which she holds", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "9 i EPICS OF THE TON I\\nHence still some peer S L r s livery wears,\\nWho o er the pit her large bare bosom rears; 950\\nThrows wide to every eye the gates of bliss,\\nTill e en the chimney sweeps begin to hiss.\\nHence stately B n boasts her warlike lord,\\nEv n one who struts in red, and wears a sword\\nWhile hinting paragraphs, with varying carriage,\\nNow sink to settlements, now rise to marriage. 956\\nHence lively M n brisk and gay by trade,\\nMakes fickle fortune serve a waiting-maid\\nStrange luck indeed so many turns to nick it,\\nAnd win a thousand with each lottery ticket 96O\\nLine 952.] There is a degree of indecency from\\nwhich even the vulgar revolt, and which the most pro-\\nfligate cannot tolerate. It is indeed not less foolish than\\nshameful in a woman, if she imagines that, by such\\nimmodest exposures as are here alluded to, she does not\\nrather disgust than allure. It is some consolation to mo-\\ndesty, that offences against her are resented even in the\\nplayhouse. I could hear the upper gallery hiss, and the\\nvery rakes in the side-boxes cry out Tis too bad\\nLine 96O.] It was rather a strange coincidence of\\nlucky hits, that this sprightly damsel should get ten or\\ntwenty thousand pounds by eighths and quarters of", "height": "3144", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 05\\nHence F n, tall by nature, train d by art\\nTo swim the motions of a tonish part,\\nNow acts in truth the part she feign d a while,\\nAnd shines the best bred c nt s of our isle.\\nO boast of fashion, arts half deified, 965\\nClaim d by the great their birthright and their pride\\nHow quickly learnt How little chang d you shew,\\nCaught by the mean, and mimick d by the low\\nA well-made sharper, in a well-made dress,\\nShines quite as fine a gallant as his Grace 970\\nNew phrases sports, new attitudes devises,\\nStrikes with a bow, or with a frock surprises.\\nA player s girl, not much by nature gifted,\\nBy some strange chance to court from green-room\\nshifted, 974\\nShines in the groupe, who shone erewhile so high,\\nThat her s and their s seem d quite a different sky\\nHer mien more graceful, and her dress more choice,\\nAnd, harder still more known to public voice.\\nlottery tickets and that the simple humble thing\\nshould have kept the secret to herself for two years after-\\nwards. Such a diing is rarely heard of between Mile-\\nEnd and Grosvmor Place,", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a76 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThus on the gay parterre, by art-wove bower,\\nEach gazer s eyes attracts the favour d flower; 98O\\nA thousand sweets its site conspicuous yields,\\nUnknown to lovelier wreathes that deck the fields.\\nBut from the dunghill see the gard ner chuse\\nA plant of statelier stem, and brighter hues\\nFast by the bower the vig rous scyon stands, 985\\nAnd fresh in leaf, and full in bloom expands\\nNo more the passing gazer turns aside\\nTo those which shone before in matchless pride\\nUnmark d their puny stalks, and colours lie,\\nThe dunghill plant alone attracts the eye 99O\\nTwas but the place which made their hues so fine,\\nlis. beauties wanted but a place to shine.\\nL C-\\nCome, knowing Muse, some moving themes im-\\npart,\\nSome strains more grateful to the female heart\\nSay how the polish d belle, the finished dame 995\\nMay farthest spread, and most sublime her fame\\nHow o er the crowd the gay gallant may rise,\\nAnd pairs, that pant for glory, touch the skies", "height": "3144", "width": "1832", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 97\\nYoung, blooming, gay, to fashion formed by rule,\\nAnd quite accomplish d from a London school, 1000\\nLine 1000.] When the education of a London board-\\ning school is brought forward in a public court of justice,\\nby a learned counsel, as a sufficient cause for suspecting\\na young lady s moral principles, it is surely time for pa-\\nrents to look to it. I do not mean to insinuate that the\\npersons who keep such houses are themselves vicious,\\nfar less that they have any intention (o corrupt the morals\\nof their fair pupils. The late discoveries of the Society\\nfor the Suppression of Vice, concerning the delectations\\npresented to one sense, have, indeed, raised a hue and\\ncry, and made my neighbours in the country look upon\\nthese seminaries as little better than preparatory schools\\nfor the bagnio. But the idea is incorrect especially if\\nit intimates that the governesses have any intentions to\\nlead their pupils astray. They are willing enough to\\nkeep all things to rights for their own reputation.\\nThey only know not how it is to be effected.\\nIgnorance is, in some circumstances, as bad in its\\nconsequences as a vicious intention. This is more espe-\\ncially the case in regard to the education of the young.\\nHow often do we see children, from the mistaken views\\nof the fondest parents, ruined in their nonage, and ren-\\ndered incapable either of knowledge or virtue The\\nmistresses of boarding schools are certainly anxious that\\ntheir female pupils should make as fine a figure as possi-\\nK", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nWith fine effect Dorinda play d her charms,\\nThe glance that catches, and the smile that warms,\\nble but as to moral education, mental improvement,\\nc. why if you talked of such a thing the good ladies\\nwould simper, and ask if you thought the geography-\\nmaster could teach it\\nTo compound drugs requires a long course of instruc-\\ntion and to make pins a seven years apprenticeship\\nbut to keep a boarding school is not an occupation that\\nis supposed to require any preparation. It is the usual\\nshift of every decayed gentlewoman, every ill-provided\\nwidow, who can scrape together money enough for the\\nspeculation. No matter for her disqualifications, she is\\nwell enough for the mistress of a boarding school. That\\nthe pupils should be improved is desirable enough, for it\\nbrings reputation.- But assuredly the mistress of the\\nschool can attend but very little to this business. She\\nmust look to the main object, the making of a little\\nmoney. She must put in practice the numerous arts for\\ncatching pupils she must receive and cajole their rela-\\ntions she must keep a watchful eye after her perquisites.\\nBut indeed, however well qualified the governess\\nmight be, she would neglect her own interest sadly, if\\nshe did not pay all her attention to the showy accom-\\nplishments. For what is a young, lady sent to school,\\nbut to learn a manner, and to make a figure at the\\npiano, or in the dance And is not the applause be-", "height": "3128", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 99\\nThe sprightly motion, or the languid role,\\nWith all those nameless things that touch the soul.\\nNor play d in vain A youth of noble race 1005\\nBeheld with kindling soul her early grace,\\nTo willing ears his rapt rous passion sigh d,\\nAnd with a title crown d his happy bride.\\nWhile youth, around, her gayest pleasures shed,\\nWealth bless d their lot, and mutual love their bed\\nGiven to their vows the wish d for offspring came,\\nAnd heap d new incense on the nuptial flame. 1012\\nstowed on the governess exactly in proportion to the\\nprogress of the pupil in these attainments No matter\\nwhat morals she has learnt, or what pictures she has\\nseen, if she be only an elegant woman. On passing a\\nvery elegant mansion, not far from Portland Place, a\\nlady who accompanied me observed that it was the most\\nfashionable boarding school in town, and that nothing\\ncould exceed the elegance of the education. I was\\nanxious to know the particulars Ah Sir, said she,\\nthey have not only masters for the usual branches of\\neducation. They have even masters to hand them in a\\nfashionable style from the drawing-room to the dining-\\ntable, and teach them to step into a carriage with grace\\n..cTG. K 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "100 EPICS OF THE TON\\nFull of his bliss, the gen rous lord confess d\\nThe golden treasure which his love possess d\\nWealth, splendor, pleasure, scatter d at her feet,1015\\nAnd strove each wish, ere scarce conceiv d, to meet.\\nMore stately rose his palace, spread his halls,\\nThe artists pride adorn d his spacious walls j\\nHis park s fair paths more gaily taught to rove,\\nThe myrtle arbour, and the scented grove; 1020\\nTo bless her hours bright social joys are stored,\\nAnd frequent guests shine brilliant round her board.\\nBlest in a wife, the crown of j6ys to lend,\\nHis bounteous fortune bless d him with a friend\\nA man who knew the world, with wit at will,1025\\nWho either sex could charm with varying skill\\nThe days of youth together had they pass d,\\nThe hours of frolic, hours too sweet to last\\nTogether shared their serious thoughts, or toys,\\nTheir nameless pains, and dreams of future joys.\\nThe friend, more gay than rich, was oft beset 1031\\nWith aking forecast, and the fiends of debt\\nThese frequent ills the generous lord repair d,\\nAnd nobly free the gifts of fortune shared", "height": "3152", "width": "1820", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 101\\nWith liberal bosom threw his coffers wide, 1035\\nImprov d his pleasures, and his wants supplied\\nWell pleas d th unequal lot of wealth to mend,\\nAnd by his favours fix. a faithful friend.\\nThus long endear d, long aided, and carest,\\nHis roof at length receiv d the welcome guest; 1040\\nGlad he display d the sweets that bless d his life,\\nHis blooming children, and his beauteous wife\\nTold his fair partner of his friend s desert,\\nAnd bade her love the man that shared his heart.\\nWith kindling bosom, and with scheme half\\nplan d, 1045\\nDorinda s charms Lothario deeply scan d\\nHow great the bliss to win so bright a prize\\nHow vast the glory in the public eyes\\nHow proud the triumph over vulgar ties\\nPoor were the victory o er some careless dame, 1050\\nWhose bosom scarce e er warm d the nuptial flame\\nWho ne er a husband s generous kindness felt,\\nNor at the mother s name was taught to melt.\\nBut here, through bands so strongly form d to break,\\nWhile love s first blushes yet inform d the cheek\\nK-3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "102 EPICS OF THE TON\\nTo burst the ties a husband fondly wove, 1056\\nBy deeds of kindness, and by words of love\\nWhile prattling infants round the mother twined,\\nAnd cast their golden fetters o er her mind\\nMore brilliant still, the ear of Fame to rend, 1060\\nThe conqu ror s self the husband s inmost friend,\\nWith trust still honour d, still with favors crown d,\\nWon by his love, and by his bounty bound\\nHow would th exploit adorn Lothario s name,\\nAbove the common hope, the vulgar aim 1065\\nSweet were his tones, his features ever mild,\\nStill with her cares he sigh d, her joys he smiled;\\nStill met his eye her eye, his thought her thought,\\nStill words congenial looks congenial caught.\\nDorinda well had learn d to move with grace, 1O70\\nDisplay her figure, and adjust her face;\\nTo guide her snow-white fingers o er the wire,.\\nOutvie the rival, and the gallant fire,\\nAnd force the brightest circle to admire.\\nThus taught to shine, and leave despis d behind 1075\\nThose arts which chasten and exalt the mind\\nWhich arm the heart against the treach rous elf,\\nAnd teach fair woman to respect herself", "height": "3156", "width": "1832", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 103\\nThe touch, the look, to meet with proud disdain,\\nWhich point to ends that Honour counts a stain\\nWith secret joy the glowing dame survey d 1081\\nThe rapid conquest which her beauties made\\nFirst heard his sighs, then listen d as he vow d,\\nHis looks return d, and his embrace allow d,\\nForgot her honour, yielded up her charms, 1085\\nAnd blest Lothario revel d in her arms.\\nWhat though a husband, from his dream awoke,\\nPierced to the heart, and madden d with the stroke,\\nBemoan d with anguish d looks, and accents wild,\\nHis bed dishonour d, and his race defiled, 10 0\\nHis friend a traitor, and his love undone,\\nAnd hope no more his lot beneath the sun\\nWhat though the infant, climbing by his knees,\\nWith piteous look its father s anguish sees,\\nStrives with its arts his sorrows to compose, 1095\\nAnd calls its mother to relieve his woes\\nWhat though the fair, her short-lived vision fled,\\nSees endless horrors crowd around her head,\\nA generous husband sinking in despair,\\nAn offspring left without a mother s care, 1100", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "104 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nWith grief in age her tender parents torn,\\nCompell d to curse the day their child was born\\nUnpitied she, the scoff of public fame,\\nDoom d through long years to weep her lasting\\nshame,\\nHer very children shudd ring at her name 1 105\\nSuch trivial ills must wait on feats so bright,\\nNo mighty vict ry e er proved harmless quite;\\nIf petty miseries high-soul d heroes weigh d,\\nNo field were fought, no conquest e er were made.\\nNow o er the crowd sublime, Lothario s name 1 1 10\\nRanks with the foremost in the lists of fame\\nWhere er he goes, the greybeard mothers shake,\\nAnd e en his name makes wedded brows to ake.\\nAnd shall not glory soothe her idle moan\\nWithout such feats the fair had died unknown,1115\\nNor at the assize, nor in the epic shone.\\nLine 1113.] I should imagine that the hero here al-\\nluded to has nearly attained that climax of fame in the\\nannals of gallantry, which the younger Lord Lyttleton\\nseems to have reached, when he informs a friend, that\\nhis successes among the sex had rendered him so formi-\\ndable that no modest woman would now be seen in his\\ncompany.", "height": "3152", "width": "1876", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK.\\nH M-\\nOur morning ride, my muse, begins to close,\\nAnd nature calls us to a short repose,\\nEre, still more daring, our bold verse aspire\\nTo raise a song of flame to men of fire. 1 120\\nYet ere we check the flight, or pull the rein,\\nTogether let us tune a prouder strain\\nNo longer sportive, but sincerely pay\\nTo nobler themes a tributary lay.\\nShall Fashion s fleeting offspring claim the song,\\nAnd generous notes their little date prolong, 1 126\\nYet, from the Muse, to her no tribute rise,\\nWhose influence gilds our fields, and cheers our\\nskies\\nBlest is the bard, whom Truth shall not disown,\\nWhile swell his notes to celebrate a throne 1130\\nWho sings, with honest pride, and heart elate,\\nThe first in virtue as the first in state;\\nHis subject chosen by a people s choice,\\nHis lays the echo of the public voice", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "105 EPICS OF THE TON I\\nWho never dreads lest his suspicious style 1 133\\nWith loud applauses should provoke a smile\\nWith pure approval secret sneers should raise,\\nA bitter satire under seeming praise.\\nSay, shall the censor read th historic page,\\nAnd search the secret annals of our age 1 140\\nNo whisp ring plots, or fraudful arts he ll find\\nBy thee to mar a people s peace design d\\nNo private ends pursued by black intrigues,\\nWon by pernicious war, or perjur d leagues\\nWith bold deceits that misbecome thy sex, 1 145\\nThou ne er wer t known the statesman to perplex\\nTo shake the court, to sheath or draw the sword,\\nConfound the council, and disgrace thy lord.\\nLine 114S.] Such practices have, fortunately for this\\ncountry, been more common in the council of France\\nthan the cabinet of Great Britain. Yet even in this\\ncountry, they have occasionally been felt, and perhaps\\nno reign, that of King William scarcely excepted, has\\nbeen freer from them than the present. The Stuarts\\nwere not the only princes who sacrificed the honour of\\ntheir country, and their own safety, to the intrigues of\\ntheir wives and mistresses. How honourable is it for a", "height": "3144", "width": "1800", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 107\\nOnce in thy life and then, how blest the zeal\\nThat led thee to assume the public weal 1 150\\nWhen yearning factions bore allegiance down,\\nAnd near bereft thy husband of a crown\\nThou, with a spirit high, and dauntless mien,\\nThat spoke the wife, and well announc d the queen,\\nDidst justice, honour, public virtue, bring, 1155\\nTo save the state, and help an injur d king\\nTo scare those wolves, that, prowling for their prey,\\nLong d for the dark, and strove to drown the day.\\nOr let the censor to thy court repair,\\nHe ll find no rampant vices foster d there; 1 l6o\\nNo lewd debauch the nightly vigil keep,\\nNo Sunday revels make the pious weep.\\nNo husband s feelings there th adult ress shocks,\\nAnd bravely gay his shame and anguish mocks\\nNo knavish courtier falls a willing prey, 1 1 65\\nAnd courting fortune throws his all away,\\nTo catch the royal favour loses still,\\nqueen to forego that influence which she might have\\nattained, and to sacrifice vanity and passion to the good\\nof her country", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "lOS EPICS OF THE TON J\\nIn hopes far richer draughts of wealth to swill,\\nAnd from the bleeding nation quaff his fill.\\nOr turn thee, censor, view her private life, 11 JO\\nAttend the mother, and observe the wife\\nHere duty, honour, temp rate virtues shed\\nTheir verdant wreathes around a fruitful bed\\nA happy husband feels her cares bestow\\nDomestic joys which monarchs rarely know 1 175\\nMaternal cares a blooming offspring own,\\nAnd cottage pleasures spring around the throne.\\nRare virtues even in vale remote from town,\\nMark d in the low, and honour d by the clown\\nBut oh how rarely found to grace a crown 1 180\\nLine H69.I This was, in former times, an usual ex-\\npedient by which courtiers brought themselves into fa-\\nvour, and the kings and queens procured a supply for\\ntheir extravagance. Those who made their way to\\noffices in this manner could not be supposed to possess\\nany yearnings of a disinterested patriotism, and the pil-\\nlaged nation repaid, in ample measure, the losses of the\\ngaming table. How degrading were such practices to\\nroyalty How deplorable for this country should they\\never be renewed", "height": "3156", "width": "1856", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 109\\nNor fortune here incurs her wonted blame,\\nAnd leaves to merit but an empty name j\\nTby virtues meet their well-bestow d reward,\\nHeaven sends its blessings, sends its power to guard.\\nFree from those ills which oft attend the great, 1 185\\nAnd make them envy ev n the humblest state,\\nThy happy years in peace have pass d away,\\nAnd beams still bright adorn thy verging day.\\nBy brilliant prospects from thy home convey d\\nTo shores where Honour dwells in Freedom s shade,\\nTo meet thy kindred, meet a husband there, 11 91\\nThou for a welcome didst not find a snare\\nNor all unknowing, all unknown, behold\\nA train deceitful, and a husband cold\\nThy bridal transports, and thy virgin charms, 11 93\\nNext morn deserted for a wanton s arms\\nNo friend to guide, no guardian to protect,\\nBy fears opprest, and wounded by neglect\\nTo a lone mansion, to thy grief consign d\\nWith solitude to feed thine aching mind 120O\\nTo dream of former hopes, of courtly scenes,\\nThe joys of state, and equipage of queens\\nL", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "110 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nTo waste thy days unconscious of delight,\\nAnd bathe in tears thy solitary night\\nWhen led by nature s counsel to impart 12.05\\nThy secret sorrows to a parent s heart,\\nTo find this wretched solace ev n denied,\\nThe seal of honour broke, its laws defied\\nWhile he who vow d thy weakness to defend,\\nIn joy thy partner, and in grief thy friend, 1210\\nTo other cares, to other pleasures fled,\\nDeserting thine to share another s bed,\\nMock d at thy woes, and scoffing at thy pain,\\nHad joy d to hear thy heart had burst in twain\\nFrom ills like these kind Heav n has set thee free,\\nHow sad the doom if such a princess be! 121(1\\nUnheeded, save by those who deeply feel\\nFor private sorrows and the public weal,\\nThou didst not in a lone, obscure retreat,\\nPeruse the vaunting records of the fete, 1 220\\nWhere rank with graces, wealth with beauty strove,\\nTo fix the gazer, and provoke to love\\nWhere brilliant gems profusely shone in pride,\\nWhere eyes more brilliant all the gems outvied", "height": "3156", "width": "1876", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 1 1\\nWhere branching lustres pour d around the hall\\nMeridian brightness to illume the ball 1226\\nWhere youthful lords and dames, their country s\\nboast,\\nPaid homage to the hostess and the host\\nWhere, famed for manners, much by nature graced,\\nThy royal husband far outshone the rest, 1230\\nHimself the host, himself the banquet s pride\\nBut in thy place another did preside\\nSuch pangs from thee did heaven benign avert,\\nNor with such insult poignarded thy heart.\\nLeft by the father, thou didst not behold, 1235\\nIn tears, yet pleas d, thy infant s charms unfold\\nAnd, sighing, in the little smiler s face,\\nWith mournful pride the sire s own features trace\\nIn wonder that this image could not move\\nHis melting soul to soft returns of love, 1240\\nOr joys more grateful to a parent shed,\\nThan bolster d beauties and a barren bed.\\nThou didst not with maternal anguish mourn\\nThine only babe from thine embraces torn j", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "1 1 2 EPICS OF TH\u00c2\u00a3 TON\\nFear lest affection s filial germ should die, 1245\\nSnatch d from thy fost ring hand, and watchful eye j\\nAnd sadly weep lest thy hard fate should prove\\nA daughter s duty like a husband s love.\\nFar other scenes in wedlock didst thou find,\\nAn offspring numerous, and a husband kind. 1250\\nLed for a respite to thy frequent tears,\\nTo chear thy widow d, more than widow d years\\nBy some poor pastimes that might call to mind\\nThine early scenes while fortune yet was kind\\nBy deeds of bounty to the wretch distrest, 1255\\nDeeds rarely practised by the great, or blest\\nBy friendship s soothing converse to beguile\\nThe tedious hours, and teach thy grief to smile\\nThou didst not find a lurking adder dart\\nIts secret venom to thy trusting heart j 1260\\nThe sycophant that now, with fawning look,\\nThy bounty courted, and thy state partook,\\nLured by some selfish end, some damning bribe,\\nBecome the basest of the lying tribe,\\nPervert thy motives, and thy deeds defame, 1265\\nAnd strive to fix dishonour on thy name;", "height": "3156", "width": "1872", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 113\\nSearch in thy pleasures, scanty, humble, rare,\\nFor deeds to blacken, and for words to snare\\nEv n in the orphan whom thy cares did save\\nFrom pining want, and an untimely grave, 1270\\nBy dev lish art, the wish d occasion feign\\nTo blast thine honour and thy truth to stain\\nO malice hard to bear, and keenly felt,\\nWhere black ingratitude is join d to guilt!\\nWhere many a former pang the bosom knew, 1275\\nAnd piercing slander tears the wound anew\\nSuch venom d ills far banish from thy fate,\\nA generous husband, and a guardian state.\\nForlorn, deserted, sicken d, and distress d,\\nBy slander harrow d, by neglect oppress d, 1280\\nThy fancy led by present ills to roam,\\nWhere honour d parents bless d thine early home\\nThou didst not sink to hear the tale of woe,\\nA father slaughter d by a barb rous foe;\\nWhile bravely struggling with o erwhelming fate,\\nAnd nobly falling to support a state 1286\\nYet ere the final stroke of death was given,\\nYet ere his soul had wing d her flight to Heaven,", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nLeft for a while to learn his country s fall,\\nHis people spoil d, his children reft of all 12Q0\\nTo think of her, once seeming blest and great,\\nThe promis d sovereign of the noblest state,\\nNow in a foreign land forsaken quite,\\nWith no protector to assert her right\\nThen finding nought on earth to sooth his woes,\\nA hero s struggles like a martyr s close 1296\\nHis very bones denied their native soil,\\nHis very ashes sentenced to exile\\nThou didst not hear how deep this killing dart\\nHad torn thine anguish d mother s bleeding heart*\\nWhile all distracted o er the bier she wept, 1301\\nAnd guardian reason scarce his station kept\\nThy hapless kindred scatter d far from home,\\nA stranger s land with grief-worn steps to roam.\\nThou didst not o er such sorrows weep alone 1305\\nSigh to the winds, and to the midnight moan\\nAmidst a people famed for generous deeds,\\nFor softer natures, and for purer creeds,\\nNot see one comforter thy gates attend,\\nOne noble own himself in grief thy friend, 1310", "height": "3156", "width": "1872", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE FEMALE BOOK. 115\\nOne prouder soul the frowns of vice despise,\\nAnd o er unfeeling meanness greatly rise\\nFar from such ills and ever be they far\\nA fate how different rules thy happy star\\nFrom friends perfidious, and the foes alarms, 1315\\nThy Britons shield thee with their guardian arms\\nWith ready vengeance marshal round thy throne,\\nAnd hold thy safety dearer than their own.\\nShould any grief upon thy peace intrude,\\nFor griefs will find the prosp rous, vex the good,\\nThy rising care shall early solace chear, 1321\\nA people join, a husband wipe thy tear", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3156", "width": "1816", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE\\nEPICS OF THE TON,\\nBOOK THE SECOND.\\nBEING\\nTHE MALE BOOK.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3156", "width": "1800", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE\\nEPICS OF THE TON:\\nTHE MALE BOOK.\\nV^o.me, listen to my strain, for I am he\\nWho sung erewhile of female A and B\\nCome, for you know me not, though I have strung\\nMy lyre to themes in prose or verse unsung\\nTo woman s glory blown the trump of fame, 5\\nTales yet untold, and deeds without a name\\nNow louder blasts aloft triumphant rise,\\nAnd waft the mighty male ones to the skies,\\nWho still at White s, or at St. Stephen s late,\\nNow shake the dice-box, now hold fast the state;\\nLine 6\\\\] A deed without a name.\\nShakspeare.\\nLine 8.] ff Terrarum dominos evehit ad deos.\\nHorace.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "120 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSwear at Newmarket, swagger at reviews, 1 1\\nAnd now recruit the forces, now the stews j\\nIn side-box glitter, gild a birth-day train,\\nEat, drink, and die Come, listen to my strain\\nD of P\\nWho s in? who s out a question hard as vain,\\nBefore we speak, the outs are in again 16\\nLine 14.] Were it not that great geniuses, of a si-\\nmilar mould, are apt to hit upon the same thoughts and\\nexpressions, we should suspect that this commencement\\nwere little else than an imitation of the inimitable exor-\\ndium of Madoc, which so strikingly displays the feel-\\nings of conscious genius\\nCome, listen to a tale of times of old\\ne Come, for ye know me I am he who sung\\nOf Thalaba the wild and wond rous song.\\nCome, listen to my lay, and ye shall hear\\nHow Madoc from the shores of Britain spread\\nThe adventurous sail, explored the ocean ways,\\nAnd quell d barbarian power, and overthrew\\nf The bloody altars of idolatry,\\nAnd planted in its fanes triumphantly\\nThe cross of Christ. Come, listen to my lay 5", "height": "3156", "width": "1884", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 121\\nWe see our error while we turn about\\nTo mend the phrase, good lack the ins are out:\\nThus all by turns enjoy the sweets and sorrow,\\nThey re hereto day, and they are gone to morrow. 20\\nBlest be my bounteous fortune that in grace\\nNo statesman made me, gave me not a place\\nIn Downing- street, sad wailings heard by night\\nMay sound the dirges of the parting sprite\\nThe badge, sweet fleeting relic may the eye 25\\nOft view mid saltest tears, and groan-like sigh;\\nWith humble will the placeman may resign,\\nMild as the felon in the fatal twine 5\u00e2\u0080\u0094\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSnug in my Cot, the Courier I peruse,\\nMy coffee quaff, and chuckle o er the news 30\\nOr, quaintly moral o er the doleful fun,\\nObserve that nought is fix d beneath the sun.\\nThe wise and good shall ever, in my eyes,\\nOr out or in, be held the good and wise\\nAnd perch d in office, or a patriot brave, 35\\nA fool s a fool, and every knave s a knave.\\nDoes selfish Helluo boast his wealthy charge,\\nAnd rest secure on bottom broad and large\\nM", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 EPICS OF THE TON I\\nOr does dame Fortune slily kick the stool,\\nUpset the breech, and Helluo, proved a fool, 40\\nBawl for those rights on which he just had trod,\\nWhile mole-ey drabbles shout their molten God?\\nFull o er his back my honest lash shall swing,\\nFull in his ears my epic notes shall ring. 44\\nDescends the state-coach from hard rock to bog\\nIs Premier Hydra changed for Premier Log\\nWell pleas d but careless I ll behold the pother,\\nElude the one, and leap upon the other.\\nLine 38.] A broad-bottom d administration seems,\\nfrom repeated experience, to denote exactly the same as\\nan administration without any bottom at all in the same\\nmanner as a wide conscience, and no conscience is just the\\nsame thing. In short, the stool of state appears to be a\\nvery narrow, tottering seat, and the broad-bottom, pro-\\ntruding beyond its verge on every side, if not well-ba-\\nlanced, is in terrible danger of upsetting. It is rather\\nan awkward circumstance for an administration to be\\ncharacterized as the broad-bottomed. It seems to indi-\\ncate that their chief virtue consists in taking a very\\nsolid position in their places if not that their talents\\nbear some fundamental analogy to the appellation.\\nWhen shall we have the long-headed administration\\nLine 48.] All my little readers, and some of my\\ngreat ones, will remember the fable in Esop.", "height": "3156", "width": "1860", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 123\\nDoes G rear his officed head on high.\\nAnd seem to shake the spheres, and touch the sky\\nWith equal compass shall I mete the wight, 5 1\\nAnd clip some twenty cubits from his height.\\nDoes drowsy P o er the treasure dream,\\nAnd deeply ponder, or to ponder seem\\nOf the state- wain appear the reins to guide, 55\\nWhile ten smart lacquies lash on either side\\nI ll leave the head-piece to his sweet repose,\\nAnd ply my Epics, while he plies his doze.\\nThough H y smooth me, R e with ledgers\\ncram,\\nThough C\u00e2\u0080\u0094 g scratch me with an epigram 60\\nStill on my muse I ll call with courtly ease,\\nAnd tune my lyre to figures such as these\\nWith votive tablets thus, in times of yore.\\nThe branchless trunk was seen bedizen d o er\\n(The gifts were hung by seamen s grateful hand, 65\\nWho, least expecting, touch d the wish d for land\\nLine 65.] It was the custom among the ancients,\\nwhen caught in a storm at sea, to deprecate the wrath\\nof Neptune, and intreat his assistance to reach the shore", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 EPICS OF THE TON l\\nThe goodly sight the trav Ier stopt to see,\\nAnd all, twas said, to view the votive tree\\nBut while each tablet caught the wond ring eye,\\nWith golden lines, and arms emblazon d high, 70\\nWho e er regarded the suspending stock,\\nAn useful support, but a shapeless block\\nThus Britain s colours on the standard float,\\nThus may- day wreathes around the pole are wrought\\nThere glory shines, here mirth in gayest mood, 75\\nWhile all they hold by is a piece of wood.\\nWhere hair-skill d swains their oily fingers twirl,\\nThe scissars flourish, and invade the curl,\\nin safety. If the prayer was granted, they shewed their\\ngratitude by hanging, upon the branches of some con-\\nsecrated tree near the shore, a piece of armour, or some\\nmore splendid trophy, with a tablet containing a suitable\\ninscription. Those who are caught in a political storm,\\n(i. e. the minority,) pay abundance of vows to every\\nwatery god some speedy aid to lend but having once\\ntouched the wished-for harbour, who ever hears of their\\ngrateful remembrances One is conveyed ashore in the\\nlife-boat of the people, another on the rafts of the\\nchurch and they recal these obligations just when they\\nare caught in another storm, and have fresh occasion for\\nassistance.", "height": "3188", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 125\\nThus powder d peruques, placed in rows so dight,\\nAttract the gazer, and the poll invite, 80\\nAnd hide the block that holds them to the light.\\nThus though the staffof state where towers the head,\\nBe made of timber and congenial lead,\\nWreathes, colours, tablets, wigs, around it hung,84\\nThemselves though naught, while round a work-\\nshop flung,\\nFixt on a prop, aloft in air may shew,\\nAmaze the great ones, and astound the low\\nLine 82.] In this country, we have had several pre-\\nmiers of this description, who have been found to serve\\nthe purpose exceedingly well. Who was at one time\\nmore popular than the Duke of Newcastle The people\\nwho stood at a distance, and were unable to distinguish\\nthe lofty colour-staff from the jack and pendant that\\nfloated around it, thought the thing truly magnificent.\\nIt was a good joke to the efficients^ who under the mighty\\nshade securely stuffed themselves with the loaves and\\nfishes. The Marquis of Rockingham was almost too\\ngood for a mere colour-staff, as his successor is almost\\ntoo The proportion between the qualities of the\\nhead and the limbs is, however, pretty well preserved.\\nF\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W as to R pretty nearly as C or P\\nor H or M is to P", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 EPICS OP THE TON\\nSeem something brilliant, swell with conscious pride^\\nAnd on the car of state triumphant ride.\\nL-_ H P\\nWhen mighty foes, now mightier than before,9Q\\nTurn all their wrath on our deserted shore\\nWhen many a king dethroned, and plunder d state\\nWould seem to warn us of approaching fate\\nWhom should we seek to snatch the wav ring helm,\\nAnd through the shoals conduct the plunging realm\\nThe man who oft, mid tempests loud and dark, 96\\nHas seen the breakers clash around the bark\\nWho proudly resolute, and sternly brave,\\nSeems to require no second hand to save\\nPlans for himself, and what he plans performs, 100\\nAs deaf to prayers as to the raging storms\\nWho stout in words, nor less in count nance bold,\\nConfirms the timid, animates the cold\\nAnd seems prepared, when all at length is lost,\\nStill to stand up, and perish on his post 105\\nSuch is the man for this dark season fit,\\nSuch once we had, for such a man was Pitt,", "height": "3184", "width": "1888", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 127\\nPeace to his shade Be all his faults forgot J\\nComplete perfection is no human lot.\\nHe was a statesman from his cradle bred, 1 10\\nAnd high and lofty tower d his youthful head\\nHis idol glory, matchless power his pride,\\nAll meaner ends were thrown with scorn aside\\nWhile wealth and honours on his nod await,\\nHe lived a commoner, and died in debt 1 1 5\\nA debt his grateful country pays in tears,\\nAnd counts it little of her vast arrears.\\nLine 117.] The poet has spoken the language of\\npanegyric Be it the task of the critic to speak impar-\\ntial truth. The historian, who gives his name to the\\npublic, labours under insuperable disadvantages in deli-\\nneating the character of cotemporary statesmen. If\\nconnected with their partizans, he must maintain his\\nconsistency by resolutely praising them throughout If\\nassociated with their opponents, he must find nothing\\nbut defects, even in their greatest virtues. In short,\\nthe biographer, thus circumstanced, must always look\\nthrough one end of a telescope and see the virtues or\\nvices of his subject either swoln to a mountain, or\\ndwindled to a mole-hill. I am under no such restraint.\\nI can shew both the good and the bad in their proper\\ndimensions, without any risk of losing my place or pen-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nWhen Europe sunk, and Britain stood aghast,\\nAnd Freedom trembled at the sweeping blast\\nsion. In sooth, I long to hear my friend A on the\\none side, and my friend B on the other, rail at the\\nimpertinent scribbler who has written to indulge his own\\nhumour while they know not that the man stands be-\\nfore them. Receive, therefore, the true Mr. Pitt at my\\nhands j and let me indulge the fond hope that posterity,\\ndisgusted with the sturdy declamations of Belsham, the\\nill-assorted newspapers of Bisset, the lick-dust enco-\\nmiums of Adolphus, or Gifford, and Mc Arthur s pro-\\nmised waggon-load of gazettes soaked in train-oil may\\nseek for fair truth in the annotations of an Epic\\nMr. Pitt derived every advantage from his birth and\\neducation. He was son to the most celebrated states-\\nman of the times. He was the darling of his father\\nand designed to support, not the name and honours, but\\nthe fame and power of his family. Tutored by the\\npenetrating observations of the once-great Commoner, he\\nwas an adept in politics, even in his nonage, and an ac-\\ncomplished statesman before the laws regarded him as a\\nman.\\nHe came into political life with every advantage. The\\npeople adored the representative of the great patriot\\nwho had breadied his last in the cause of freedom and\\nthey fondly invested him with all the talents and virtues\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which they had long associated with the name of Pitt.", "height": "3156", "width": "1896", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nThou ne er wcrt known, with dangling, petty grace,\\nAt Lady Bab s to shew thy simp ring face 3 2!\\nEven the court beheld him with comparative favour, and\\nwere willing to escape from the dreaded yoke of the\\naristocracy, by the efforts of the people and the son of\\nChatham. The coalition of the aristocracy with the\\nousted tools of the court, whom they had hitherto\\nbranded as the basest of reptiles, overwhelmed all his\\nadversaries with infamy and when the dissolution of\\nparliament had manifested the national sentiments, he\\nset forward in his political career, with the brilliant as-\\nsurance that the court and the people were equally his\\nfriends.\\nAn unpopular war was just concluded. Men return-\\ned with eagerness to the pursuits of peace. Agricul-\\nture, manufactures, and commerce, began to flourish\\nanew, and to shoot forth blossoms more gay and fruitful\\nthan they had hitherto borne. The taxes became more\\nproductive, yet were less felt and while the necessities\\nof the government were relieved, the people were visibly\\nenriched. When men compared this happy state of\\nthings with the grievances and discontents from which\\nthey had just escaped, they naturally referred their new\\nblessings to the presiding spirit who now stood at the\\nhelm of government. And while they estimated his\\ntalents by their own prosperity, and compared his years\\nwith his abilities, they concluded that so much wisdom", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON:\\nAt routs to flutter, or at hops to trip,\\nA bow to study, criticize a dip,\\nand conduct could be found in one so young, only by a\\nmiracle, and that Providence in mercy had now vouch-\\nsafed them a heaven-born minister.\\nAs his career proceeded, his good fortune kept pace\\nwith it. The flourishing state of the finances, arising\\nfrom the rapid increase of national prosperity, enabled\\nhim, under better auspices, to resume the plans of Wal-\\npole 5 and to hold forth to the nation a prospect of re-\\nlief from that accumulation of debt, which was re-\\ngarded with the most fearful apprehensions. The plan\\nof the sinking fund was neither new nor complicated\\nbut it had a splendid and most gracious appearance and\\nhe had the virtue to excel his predecessors in abstaining\\nfrom the fund thus appropriated, even under his greatest\\ndifficulties.\\nThe war of the French Revolution presented him\\nwith a new scene, but with circumstances not less fortu-\\nnate. On the one hand, by persevering in the course\\nwhich he had hitherto pursued, he had before him the\\nreputation of preferring the real felicity of a nation to\\nthe glittering temptations of ambition of guiding the\\nvessel of the state with skill, through shoals and quick-\\nsands, in which others were perishing of rendering his\\ncountry rich, powerful, and happy, while neighbouring\\nkingdoms were ravaged by intestine convulsions, and", "height": "3156", "width": "1872", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nConsult with Hoby on the newest boot,\\nAnd hear Floriche upon a birth-day suit\\nruined by external wars. On the other hand, the ca-\\nreer of ambition was thrown wide before him the\\nglory of subduing enemies, of ruling allies, of calling\\nforth the valour of his countrymen, and shining, in the\\neyes of posterity, with the accompanying lustre of con-\\nquests and victories. He chose the latter, and the\\nfeelings of the nation went along with him.\\nThe atrocities of the French Revolution, and the ex-\\ncesses of some infatuated persons in our own country,\\nwho were fitter subjects for Bedlam than for Newgate,\\nthrew the people into a general panic. The great trem-\\nbled for their honours the wealthy for their riches j the\\nnumerous dependents of the court for their places and\\npensions. Every one seemed to feel the dagger of an\\nassassin in his back, and the hand of a robber in his\\npocket. Every one felt himself called upon, with his\\nlife and fortune, to assist the minister who had the cou-\\nrage to encounter these terrible calamities. He might\\nequip the most expensive armaments he might under-\\ntake the most fruitless expeditions he might chastise,\\nwith a rod sharper than the law, the insolent murmurs\\nof discontent he might accumulate tax upon tax, and\\nloan upon loan. He was met with full support, and\\nencouraged by acclamations. When a due lapse of time\\nhad dispelled the panic, and men, venturing to look", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON I\\nThy trappings more than taxes to debate,\\nAnd more thy motions study than the state\\naround, found no dagger at their back but the dagger of\\nnew penal statutes, no hand in their pockets but the\\nhand of the tax-gatherer, they were amazed at their\\nown security. They thanked heaven for their miracu-\\nlous escape and prostrated themselves before the sa-\\nviour of his country\\nSuch were the favourable gales which swelled the\\nsails of Pitt, throughout his long course. But we must\\nnot undervalue the talents which could take advantage of\\nthem. He knew the people of England he could ap-\\nply suitable arguments to their heads, and proper stimu-\\nlants to their prejudices and passions. He could make\\nthem regard a disaster as a fortunate escape and a\\ngalling tax as a blessed expedient. No statesman ever\\ntook a firmer hold on the minds of the people and at the\\nmoment this is written two thirds of the nation still re-\\nvere him as the greatest minister England ever possessed.\\nHis oratory was the grand pillar of his reputation.\\nHis deep-toned voice j his warm and forcible utterance\\nhis slow, distinct, measured enunciation his elevated\\nand ornamented style his long, involved, and seem-\\ningly premeditated sentences impressed the hearers\\nwith an opinion of his profoundness and dignity. Every\\nperiod was delivered with pomp; every sentiment\\nbreathed an air of importance. His declamation waa", "height": "3156", "width": "1872", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 133\\nOr still at H 11 d House to smirk and dine,\\nAnd charm my lady by your looks so fine\\nalways suited to the feelings of his audience and was\\nalways received with bursts of applause. Their atten-\\ntion was still more forcibly attracted by the pointed sar-\\ncasms in which he delighted. His irony was keen, di-\\nrect, and cruelly persevering. He never left his victim,\\nhowever contemptible, till he had broken every limb on\\nthe wheel\\nThe impreshion produced by the striking qualities of\\nhis oratory, made its defects pass unperceived. Thd\\ntritest idea acquired importance from the pomp with\\nwhich it was enounced and the distance of the com-\\nmencement of the period from the conclusion, caused\\ntheir want of correspondence to escape unobserved.\\nAmidst the miserable and abortive attempts at harangu-\\ning, which usually disgrace the House of Commons; half-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2sentences, stammerings, sir-ings, provincialisms, tasteless\\nrepetitions, muttering whispers, occasionally interspersed\\n5 This disposition was remarkably exemplified in the\\nterrible blows which he inflicted on poor Sir John Sin-\\nclair, amost inoffensive agriculturist, who isnomore capa-\\nble of injuring a great minister than is one of his sheep.\\nThe baronet, in evil hour, would needs bs a politician\\nand an opposition orator an ambition which he dearly\\natoned by the loss of his great glory, the presidentship\\nof the board of agriculture, and by such chastisement\\nin the House of Commons as exceeded the utmost\\nwrath of an infuriated pedagogue.\\nN", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134 EPICS OF THE TON J\\nAccept her box to snuff the country air, 130\\nAnd waste your many hours of leisure there\\nwith ear-rending ebullitions the oratory of Pitt shone\\nlike a comet, amidst the twinkling stars.\\nAs a minister of finance, his dexterity was unrivalled.\\nHe had a peculiar penetration in discovering where\\ntaxes might be imposed, and a still greater skill in ren-\\ndering the most obnoxious acceptable. His reputation\\nin this department was greatly increased by his dexterity\\nin arithmetical calculations, and the rapidity with which\\nhe caught up and appropriated the ideas of those with\\nwhom he conversed. The practised accountant was\\namazed to see himself surpassed in those operations\\nwhich had formed the business of his life and the mer-\\nchant, the manufacturer, and the mechanic,, who con-\\nversed with him, reported with admiration that he un-\\nderstood their respective callings better than themselves.\\nBy these arts he led the monied world.\\nIn his principles with regard to commerce he was the\\navowed follower of Adam Smith but he durst not,\\namidst the difficulties in which war involved him, enter\\ninto an open contest with the prejudices of the commer-\\ncial system and he could only venture to weaken a few\\nlinks in the chain of the navigation laws. There are also\\ninstances in which his ideas fell short of his master.\\nAs a war minister, his lustre shone far less bright.\\nThe naval achievements, indeed, were such as we might", "height": "3156", "width": "1872", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 135\\nPolitely pliant or to dine or dance,\\nAnd but in council give a thought to France\\nexpect from the superior maritime commerce and skill\\nof Great Britain. But all the enterprizes by land were\\nill-conceived, and, with one exception, worse executed.\\nThe commanders were ill-selected the troops ill-ap-\\npointed the points of attack chosen without judgment 3\\nand secrecy never preserved even when most essential.\\nHe meditated great enterprizes but his means were\\nnever equal to his ends. Defeat and disgrace were the\\nportion of his armies and his expeditions became the\\nridicule of Europe. The gigantic successes of Buona-\\nparte produced the most uneasy sensations in his mind\\nand his most intimate friends assure us, that he actually\\nfelt those apprehensions of invasion which he attempted\\nto infuse into his countrymen.\\nThere was a sternness and obstinacy in his character,\\nwhich often subdued opposition, but always excited ene-\\nmies. It exasperated while it overawed the court and\\nit converted his political contests into private animosi-\\nties. To those at a distance, it bore the appearance of\\nfirmness but several transactions dictated by this spirit\\ndrew on his character the reproach of boyish obstinacy\\nand pitiful revenge.* While his firmness bound to him\\nSuch were his conduct to the unfortunate hawkers j\\nand his expulsion of his old antagonist Home Tooke,\\nunder the unjustifiable and ridiculous pretext that a man\\nN 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 EPICS OF THE TON\\nOr, in the senate, quite as brilliant grown,\\nAnd quite as pliant, swell, in gentle tone,\\nbis partizans, his harshness often disgusted them and it\\nwas observed that no man had more political or fewer\\nprivate friends.\\nYet he could become submissive and pliant, when\\nthe interests of his ambition, his ruling passion, were\\nat stake. He could be gracious and affable when he\\nhad any particular end in view. His original principles\\ndropt from him as he entered the threshold of the court j\\nand all men smiled at his attempt to preserve an ap-\\npearance of consistency, by leaving to his dependents\\nthe task of overthrowing some popular questions, while\\nhe himself remained in the minority. He carried\\nthrough his favourite measure, the Union with Ireland,\\nby promising emancipation to the Catholics and when\\nthe court refused to make good his word, he could not\\nbut resign. But the want of power was intolerable\\nand he quickly gave up his pledge to recover his station.\\nThis last step caused his sun, long so brilliant, to set\\namidst impenetrable gloom. Untaught by his father s\\nsorrows, he quarrelled with his most respectable friends,\\nand threw himself defenceless into the arms of the\\ncourt. Bereft of his independence, forsaken by the\\nonce in orders can never become a member of the House\\nof Commons. Why do the still more sacred bishops sit\\nin the other House of Parliament", "height": "3156", "width": "1836", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 137\\nThe smooth round speech, whose lubricating phrase\\nAims at some pretty thought a thousand ways\\nconfidence of the nation, unsupported by the miserable\\ndependents with whom he had surrounded himself, and\\nunfortunate in all his dearest enterprises, the agitations\\nof his proud spirit overpowered the feebleness of an ex-\\nhausted body 3 and he fell, at an early age, amidst the\\npangs of disappointed ambition.\\nHis figure was tall, his bones large, his habit spare.\\nHis features were prominent and coarse and his mouth,\\nwhich was always open as he walked, expressed to those\\nwho met without knowing him, any thing rather than\\nthe qualities of a great minister or a wise man. His\\ngestures were ungraceful. Even when he harangued, he\\nchiefly moved his head and his right arm, which he\\nbrandished with great violence, but in the same uniform\\ndirections.\\nHis private life was little remarkable, yet had consi-\\nderable effect on his political reputation. Of a cool\\ntemperament, he felt little inclination towards the fe-\\nmale sex, and was considered wholly free from the vice\\nof incontinence a circumstance which procured him a\\nhigh character for unspotted morality, and rendered him\\nthe idol of grave and religious persons throughout the\\nnation. In his latter years this impression was some-\\nwhat diminished by the discovery that he was intem-\\nperately addicted to the pleasures of the bottle. But\\nN 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "EPICS OP THE TON\\n(Soft its meander, save where Vandal force\\nOf crabbed figures cross its limpid course\\nmen were willing to transfer the blame of this defect to\\nthe bad example of an intimate political friend. He in^-\\ntrusted the whole management of his private fortune to\\nhis servants and their careless profusion always left\\nhim entangled in necessities. After his resignation, he\\nexpressed to some of his confidential friends his resolu-\\ntion of returning to his original profession, the bar, and\\nof endeavouring to retrieve his ruined fortune. Had he\\nexecuted this intention, instead of again accepting his\\npolitical station on degrading terms, he would have been\\nrecorded to posterity as an unrivalled model of magnani-\\nmity, and would have re-aseended his former elevation\\nwith redoubled splendour.\\nAt college he excelled in mathematics and delighted,\\nthrough life, to employ his leisure intervals in the peru-\\nsal of the Latin Classics, but his early and incessant ap-\\nplication to business prevented him from acquiring a\\nprofound knowledge of any branch of learning. His\\npublic declamations in favour of religion were ardent\\nbut his private convictions were never sound, and his\\nexpiring moments were not those of confidence.\\nThe talents of Pitt were great; and his station among\\nstatesmen eminent but the comparison of his abilities\\nwith those of his successors has erected the loftiest mo-\\nnument to his fame.", "height": "3144", "width": "1872", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE MALE HOOK. 139\\nThose imps which make the senses reel, and, zounds\\nMistake a cypher for a thousand pounds 141\\nLine 131.] Last year this pretty little villa served\\nfor recreation amidst the terrible fatigues of office. This\\nyear it may do for the enjoyment of philosophic ease.,\\nafter this hopeful sprig of science and politics has re-\\nsigned his unwelcome cares.\\nLine 141.] The troublesome things, figures, are\\ngreatly below the notice of a fine gentleman or a philo-\\nsopher j but to attain some knowledge of them is rather\\na necessary evil to a Chancellor of the Exchequer. It\\nsomewhat hurts one s feelings to see a minister stand up\\nin his place, and after a very pretty exordium to the\\nbudget, take up a bundle of papers from the table, gaze\\nat the incomprehensible calculations before him, stammer\\nout a few confused numbers, and then, wirh a rueful\\nface, look over his shoulder to V ns rt for assistance.\\nHow often have I grieved to see unhappy A\u00e2\u0080\u0094 d+ftg n in\\nthis lamentable predicament How did my heart yearn\\nfor explanation, while a young and noble statesman in\\nvain tortured his brains to decypher the mighty plan of\\nfinance which he had so very very prettily announced\\nBut it has been said that this knowledge of figures is a\\nvulgar acquirement a thing within the reach of every\\nclerk. Be it so it is the more disgraceful for our orato-\\nrical politicians to be devoid of it. Nothing is more\\ndisgusting than to hear a man stammering through a", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 EPICS OF THE TON\\nWhile pitying friends excuse thy stammering jaw,\\nBy humbly pleading thou wer t but cat s-paw\\nOr shrinking hear the loud denouncer s call,\\nAnother Felix fore another Paul; 145\\nQuit thy crude measure without shame or sorrow,\\nTo day propose it, and retract to-morrow\\nContent, though crowds should sneer, and Cobbett\\nteaze,\\nTo hold thy station, and be quite at ease.\\nSuch wer t not thou. By great ambition led, 150\\nTo rule in Britain, and on France to tread\\nNo silly joys, the fluttering crowd that fire,\\nPossess d thy heart, or waken d thy desire\\nOne play seem d quite enough in fourteen years,\\nAnd women s smiles were pass d like actor s tears.\\nJong detail of numbers, which he cannot even read, far\\nless connect, or make intelligible to any human under-\\nstanding. There was nothing which brought Mr. Pitt\\nmore credit, or in which he more decidedly excelled all\\nhis cotemporaries, than the perspicuity and fluency with\\nwhich he detailed the most complicated calculations.\\nThere are few men, indeed, in parliament who can now\\nbe heard with patience on any financial topic.\\nLine 154.] When Mr. Pitt went to the political play", "height": "3152", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 141\\nStill, full of Britain s fame and Europe s fate, 156\\nDays spent in business, nights in strong debate,\\nBy thee no sports were sought, no tasteful hours,\\nTill nature mourn d o er thine exhausted powers\\nSaw thy griev d spirit part with many a groan, 160\\nMore pierced by Europe s ills than by thine own.\\nIn days of yore, when statesmen slowly grew,\\nAnd circling seasons brought them forth to view\\nThey studied men, the nation s temper felt,\\nAnd deeply search d where public interest dwelt.\\nNow politicians spring like hot-bed fruits, 166\\nWe place the dunghill and the mushroom shoots\\nSoak d for a while in Cam, or Isis stream,\\nWhere sport the fishes while the draught?men dream:\\nOr warm d with keener rays of northern light, 1 70\\nWhere youths, like pretty dancers, flash and fight;\\nWhere wrangling wits dispute of Nature s laws,\\nAnd find, ye gods effects without a cause\\nof Pizarro, it was stated to have been the first time, for\\nfourteen years, that he had visited the theatre.\\nLine 1?0.] This is the usual denomination and ap-\\npearance of the rays of the Aurora Borealis.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142 EPICS OF THE TON\\nProp d by young friends who take the hint for shouts.,\\nAdmire his talk, and cheer him when he spouts\\nGaze on his dress and eulogize his toes, 176\\nAnd snatch the crumbs which, pleased, around he\\nthrows\\nSee the young statesman o er the treasure tower,\\nAnd, like his fellow-insects, shine his hour.\\nBut cease, my muse, forbear another blow, 180\\nO spare thevanquish d, north o erthrown o erthrow!\\nLine 173-] Most of my readers are acquainted with\\nthe famous controversy about effect and cause, which\\nlately set the clergy and the philosophers of Scotland\\nby the ears. Had the new scheme of finance been the\\ninvention of its propounder in the House of Commons,\\nwe might have supposed it to have been a germ of this\\nnorthern school for there we found a very great effect\\nno less than the payment of the national debt and the\\nabolition of taxes about to be accomplished without\\nany discernible cause.\\nLine 179-] Butterflies and others, which have splen-\\ndid wings and short lives.", "height": "3156", "width": "1888", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 143\\nLet Cobbett still employ Pancratian law,\\nAnd thrash the ashes of the man of straw\\nLike Falstaff give the slain another wound,\\nAnd dash full pails upon the mouse that s drown d:\\nAs Spartan famed, I stoutly keep the field, 1S6\\nBut scorn, beyond, to chace the rout that yield\\nOr, lion-like, bestride them in disgrace,\\nAnd pour my full compassion in their face.\\nLine 1S2.] The Pancratia was a method of fighting\\nmuch in use among the ancients, and, indeed, is still\\npractised among all nations, the English only excepted.\\nThe generous method of deciding quarrels by boxing,\\nwhere no one is attacked at a disadvantage, and where\\nthe vanquished are always spared, is peculiar to our\\ncountrymen, and affords one of the most distinguished\\nproofs of their superior civilization. In the pancratia,\\nthe antagonists did not fight with fists at a distance, but\\nengaged at once with hands,, feet, teeth, and nails\\nmanibus el pedibus, unguibus et rostro. When the van-\\nquished was thrown down, he was still allowed no\\nquarter the conqueror knelt upon him, pelted him,\\ntore him till he was quite disabled from renewing the\\ncontest. Do not our declaiming politicians seem to\\ndeal rather in the pancratia than boxing Cobbett only\\nlays on more sturdily and effectually than the rest.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "\\\\41 EPICS OF THE TO\\nWhen unfledg d statesmen drop in middle height 1 90\\nAnd souse, confounded, from their vent rous flight,\\nKindly I ll lift from earth the callow brood,\\nAnd give them worms and flies their proper food.\\nBut say, what forms in Banquo s seat arise\\nWhat new-hatch d spectre strikes my wincing eyes\\nNo light of heaven, or flame of hell it bears, 196\\nAll dark as Chaos past the solar spheres.\\nSuch have I seen, where tedious robesmen drawl\\nTheirill-toned wranglings to the echoing hall\\nWhere wits are strain d to implicate the cause, 200\\nAnd old traditions patch the rents of laws.\\nSuch have I seen, from Hall to House translated,\\nPrompt, as to brief, whate er the point debated\\nLong, forward, pert, strive hard for mere thread-\\nends,\\nDistract his foes, and weary out his friends. 205\\nThe full-bred cobler many a year has pass d\\nApprentice, journeyman, and master last\\nLong o er his- warp and woof the weaver pored,\\nLong has the tailor squatted on his board,\\nEre by keen hussefs, or gallants of note, 210\\nThey re sought to weave the web, or shape the coat.", "height": "3132", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 145\\nBut, blest the star that watches o er the great,\\nNo craft s required for ministers of state\\nThe man who brings ten votes well train d and tame,\\nWho dare not take in vain their maker s name; 215\\nOr he whose admiration bursts all bounds,\\nAnd still the virtues of the court resounds\\nOr he who taught at spouting club, or bar,\\nTo marshal breath, and wage the wordy war,\\nSpeaks against time, gainst reason, law, and sense,\\nAnd looks above for well-earn d recompence\\nProudly may rise, for any station fit, 2-22\\nWhich Fox aspired to, or was held by Pitt.\\nLine 223.] It seems rather singular that the business\\nof a statesman, the most difficult and complicated of\\nany, should alone be thought to require no reparation\\nwhatever. We have long apprenticeships for the mean-\\nest mechanical trades, and we have colleges for instruc-\\ntion in the more liberal professions. The divine, the\\nphysician, the lawyer, are appointed to go through a\\ncertain course of education, and to undergo some trials\\nbefore they are accounted qualified for the exercise of\\ntheir callings but every one, whatever may have been\\nhis previous studies and pursuits, is held competent for\\nthe office of a minister, if he can attain it. Such is the\\nO", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 EPICS OF THE TON\\nDomestic interests, all the abyss of trade,\\nHe knows profoundly, when their umpire made\\ncause of those miserable counsels which prevail in a na-\\ntion otherwise enlightened. We see vast discoveries\\nand improvements made in other arts and sciences but\\nif a statesman does not absolutely precipitate the nation\\ninto some terrible calamity, and if he at times throws\\na sop to the mob by some trifling change, we admire\\nhim as a person of great excellence, and exceedingly\\nqualified for the government of nations. Nay, accord-\\ning to our institutions, a man is born a statesman, and\\nfed a statesman} and the capvt mortuum is thought abun-\\ndantly well prepared for the assigned occupation, though\\nno vivifying ray of knowledge has ever pierced it.\\nWhile we see an illiterate noble, an addle-headed squire,\\na loquacious lawyer, an obsequious dependant of the\\ncourt, daily occupying stations, and transacting affairs,\\nto which vigour regulated by prudence, and knowledge\\nimproved by experience, are alone equal, we are asto-\\nnished to see fatality, as we call it, confound our coun-\\nsels, when every thing goes on in its old way. As for the\\ntrue cause of the evil, we never dream of it 5 but justly\\nlook upon it as a judgment of Heaven upon our sins and\\nfollies. Were that ancient maxim of wisdom Ne\\nsutor ultra crepidam carefully kept in view, I may\\nfairly compute that not ten of our ministers, during the\\nlast century, would have crossed the threshold of the\\ncabinet.", "height": "3148", "width": "1832", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "IHIi MALE BOOK. 14T\\nOur best allies, their views, their strength, and\\nlove, 226\\nThe way to fix them, or to action move\\nTo meet the Italian s wiles with equal art,\\nAnd in the council conquer Buonaparte\\nAll these he knows, at once in all complete, 230\\nSoon as he treads the dust of Downing Street.\\nGive him the War He ll plan vast expeditions,\\nAnd bravely buy tremendous coalitions\\nGrant him the Treasury though he ne er before\\nDevis d a tax, or counted past a score, 236\\nTo Pitt or Walpole he might now prescribe,\\nAnd e en his merits need another bribe.\\nLine 236.] Nothing can more completely demon-\\nstrate that the capacity of a minister for his office is\\nwholly overlooked in his appointment, than the manner\\nin which the offices are distributed among the members\\nof the party that gets in. Every different department\\nin the government relates to very different objects, and\\nrequires very different talents the Home department,\\nthe Foreign, the War, the Colonial, the Treasury, the\\nAdmiralty, each presents a routine, and demands a ma-\\nnagement wholly distinct. But when a party rushes in,\\nthese considerations are wholly out of the question.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nBlest be the choosing system which supports\\nThe rights of patronage, and pride of courts\\nEvery one sets forward in the scramble and the best\\nthing he can lay his hands fast upon becomes his own.\\nHence we have at the head of our Admiralty successive-\\nly, a Noble Lord, a true Sea Captain, a Lawyer be-\\ncome a thorough bred courtier, a Sea Lord of eighty,\\nand two Squire orators. In the Treasury we have\\nseen a Financier, a Speaker of the House of Commons,\\na Noble Lord and a lord by courtesy, and finally an At-\\ntorney General The Foreign department, upon which\\nall our relations with Europe depend, has undergone\\nnot less queer revolutions and after having been occu-\\npied by Fox, has at length been consigned to a maker\\nof epigrams. As to the War department, to which the\\nColonial, an odd enough appendage, is added, it might\\nseem to have remained in one hand, from that consistent\\nsuccession of blunders, which has rendered our expedi-\\ntions the butt of Europe but it has in fact passed\\nthrough as great a variety of occupants as any of the\\nrest, (all however, it would appear, equally qualified,)\\nand after soaring to the upper regions, in the form of a\\nPegasus, under the daring jockeyship of Mr. W\\nhas at length become a very tame mule, bestrid by Lord\\nC I do not mean to say that all the personages\\nalluded to are not very able men, very admirable ge-\\nniuses but I mubt doubt whether they are fitted for a", "height": "3156", "width": "1888", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE MALE EOOK. )49\\nWere skill and worth the only road to place, 240\\nHow oft might greatness mourn the want of grace\\nsingle occupation which they have never learned. Some\\nof them have nearly run the gauntlet of all the higher\\noffices in the state and I may surely affirm that if, in\\nthis career, they sometimes occupied their proper place,\\nthey were as often not better suited than if a blacksmith\\nwere set with a pair of scissars to cut out fashionable\\nfrocks. Perhaps it may be judged a very easy matter to\\ncarry on the business of government, and that almost\\nany man is competent to it 5 and, in truth, as the affair\\nis managed, it cannot be attended with much difficulty.\\nBut to have a full and distinct idea of the business of the\\ndepartment, and to execute it skilfully for the benefit\\nof the nation, is not a matter of such ease. I also have\\nlooked into our public offices, and can affirm that not\\nonly to surmount their unavoidable difficulties, but even\\nto unravel that maze of confusion and perplexity in\\nwhich ignorance has entangled them, would require the\\ndeep attention of years. I can safely assert that there\\nare not two ministers at present in office who thoroughly\\nunderstand the objects, powers, detail, or requisite skill\\nof their respective departments. How is it possible\\nthey should Amidst the passion, and bustle of party\\nand intrigue, which perpetually divert their attention,\\nand distract their thoughts, how is it possible that men,\\nduring a precarious elevation of a few years, or rather\\no 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nThe deep-read scholar, in his closet then\\nPrepared to read the world and study men,\\nMight purblind practice by keen science aid,\\nAnd tread the paths by Benevento made; 245\\na few months, should become deeply conversant with\\nan intricate business, which they never studied before,\\nand have now no time to study In short, what Ho-\\nrace says of poetry in his days may be applied to politics\\nin ours\\nNavim agere ignarus navis timet abrotonum aegro\\nNon audet, nisi qui didicit, dare: quod medico-\\nrum est,\\nPromittunt medici tractant fabrilia fabri\\nDucimus indocti doctiqne politico, passim.\\nLine 237.] This is not the least curious circumstance of\\na late transaction. All the independencies were at once\\nsnatch d by the most forward, and held with such a death-\\nlike gripe, that itwas impossible to unloose the hold, with-\\nout catting off the fingers. It was a mortifying thing\\nto become jack-boot to his Grace and yet there was\\nnothing else to be had. The honied sauce of a sine-\\ncure was applied to make the dry morsel go down\\nsweetly and if a villainous hue-and-cry had not been\\nraised, it would have sweetened his mouth for life.\\nLine 245.] Charles Maurice Talleyrand, created by\\nUs master Prince of Benevento, has contributed to the", "height": "3184", "width": "1868", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nAnd with new maxims, from no vulgar school,\\nYet teach Old Britain o er the world to rule.\\ngreatness and success of Bonaparte, not less than his\\nmost formidable armies. He studied the science of\\npolitics in his closet and he came on the theatre of\\npublic affairs, fully prepared to apply his solid conclu-\\nsions to practice. The most strange concurrence of cir-\\ncumstances presented nothing perplexing to him for\\nthey originated in principles which he understood, and\\nled to consequences which he knew how to regulate.\\nBonaparte was in war what his minister was in politics.\\nBoth proceeded upon ascertained principles, and not\\nupon those crude conjectures so absurdly called expe-\\nrience. Hence their plans appeared always consistent,\\nyet were wholly incomprehensible to their enemies j\\nand the nations of Europe found themselves conquered\\nalmost before they had prepared to meet an attack. It\\nis in vain that their stupified antagonists have attributed\\nthese unrivalled successes to some mysterious and mira-\\nculous intervention of Providence, to hidden treachery\\nand to inexplicable enthusiasm. The only magic of Bo-\\nnaparte and Talleyrand was a thorough knowledge of\\nhuman nature, which could not but easily triumph over\\nthe profound ignorance of their enemies. The political\\nwritings of Talleyrand readdy distinguish him from the\\ncommon herd of statesmen. Here we find none of that\\ntechnical and mysterious jargon of office, which is em-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152 EPICS OF THE TON\\nBut then alas great titles would be vain,\\nAnd those who nothing know would nothing gain\\nThe man with many votes, or much of tongue, 250\\nWho with his patron s eyes sees right or wrong\\nFit for all places, save the poor and small,\\nAnd fit alike for any one, or all\\nThen left to crawl unknown with brother worms,\\nWould curse the change, and rail at mad reforms.\\nKind Heaven for moon-struck Britain s sake,\\ninspire 256\\nThis bust of statesman with a statesman s fire\\nFor inspiration can alone impart\\nWhat still to him remains a hidden art.\\nployed to confound the understandings of men, and give\\nto trifles an air of profundity. He reasons like a philoso-\\npher, and deduces undeniable conclusions from indubi-\\ntable fact6. And why should not British statesmen, for\\nthe glory and salvation of their country, imitate this\\nexample It is not necessary to imitate the profligacy\\nand perfidy of Talleyrand, in order to attain his other\\nqualities. Virtuous intentions, and pure affections,\\nwhen united with equal skill and knowledge, always\\ntriumph over vice.", "height": "3184", "width": "1868", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 133\\nLet briefs to budgets turn nor in his brain 260\\nSupreme o er truth let legal fictions reign\\nNor f/ro and con alike his judgment please,\\nNor laws and taxes bear the mark of fees.\\nG-\\nWhen great ones shake the head, and roll the eye-,\\nLike frowning meteors in the troubled sky 265\\nLike Gog and Magog swell in civic hall,\\nAs fierce, as callous, motionless and tall\\nHow shrink the souls of little men with dread,\\nHow quakes the bosom, and how droops the head\\nBut oh when human feelings melt the great,\\nWhen human kindness shines in lofty state, 271\\nWhen winning smiles the reverenced features wear,\\nWhen soothing sounds the words of greatness bear 5\\nLike genial beams that gild the April morn,\\nThat crown the mountain, and the vale adorn, 275\\nThe rays of favor from the noble shoot,\\nWith hopes of summer, and of golden fruit.\\nStill as their sun ascends, their brightness sheds\\nMore grateful blessings round the humbler heads", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nTheir kindly influence gives contentment birth, 280\\nAnd mortals own these imaged gods on earth.\\nAnd such thy nature, Fox whatever cloud\\nO ercast thy honours, and thy glory shroud\\nLine 282.] The poet, with an impartial hand, dis-\\nplays the most noted virtues of the rival statesmen\\nthe commentator shall tell the whole truth, with equal\\nimpartiality.\\nCharles James Fox derived from nature a vigorous ca-\\npacity, which was early improved by a liberal education.\\nHis conceptions were rapid, his fancy brilliant the in-\\ndulgence of his father gave him an open and fearless\\naddress j and a continual intercourse with the circles of\\ngaiety and fashion, rendered his expression fluent, un-\\nconstrained, and elegant. He seemed born an orator,\\nand destined by nature to shine in the political sphere,\\nHis temper, frank, candid, and generous, was calcu-\\nlated to gain him many friends, and to disarm the ani-\\nmosity of every enemy. There was nothing in it to in-\\nspire awe, or to excite mistrust no one was thrown to\\nan uncomfortable distance. He seemed born to live with\\nease and good humour, and to communicate these\\nagreeable feelings to all around him.\\nHis more advanced education tended to blast the\\nfruitful plants which shot up in so rich a soil, and to\\ngive room and luxuriance to every weed. His youth", "height": "3184", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nThou ne er wert known, with words of awful sound,\\nTo shoot amazement through the states around\\nwas a continued course of dissipation. Those hours of\\nvigour and ardour, which ought to have been spent in\\nthe labours of the closet, were devoted to the gaming\\ntable, the amour, the midnight debauch. The habits\\nthus contracted gradually became irresistible. He could\\nonly by starts confine himself to serious studies he\\nneeded dissipation to refresh his mind he became inca-\\npable of that steady attention to business, without which\\nit is impossible to conduct the affairs of a great and ac-\\ntive nation.\\nHis introduction into political life was not peculiarly\\nfortunate. His father, indeed, enjoyed the reputation\\nof abilities, yet he had sunk under the talents, and still\\nmore under the integrity of Chatham. But if Fox deri-\\nved some stain from his parentage, his own conduct seem-\\ned not likely to remove the blot and while men admired\\nthe brilliancy of his parts, they wondered and lamented\\nthat so much genius should be united to so little pru-\\ndence or virtue.\\nThe unfavourable occurrences, which crossed his po-\\nlitical career, might spring from accident but they de-\\nrived new force, from the warmth, or the facility of his\\nown temper. During the American war, he had derived\\nmuch popularity from his resolute and violent opposition\\nto Lord North but when this nobleman and his friends", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 EPICS OF THE TON\\nHaste resolution with a thund ring blow, 286\\nAnd raise from wavering friends the rankling foe\\npassed over to the party of Fox, and were by him re-\\nceived with his usual facility and frankness, the people\\nlooked upon their patriot as guilty of the most unprin-\\ncipled dishonesty in thus cordially coalescing with the\\nmen whom he had just pursued with the most opprobri-\\nous invective. The odium of the coalition continued\\never afterwards to hang, like a noxious vapour, upon his\\nbrightest beams.\\nWhen Great Britain interfered to put a stop to the\\nconquering arms of Russia, the friends of monarchy\\nwere alarmed and incensed, when they saw Fox not\\nonly oppose administration at home, but even carry his\\nzeal so far as to send abroad an accredited agent to\\nthwart the views of government. During the lamented\\nillness of the sovereign, his activity drew down upon\\nhim a new load of indignation. Men could not look\\nupon the warmest friendship for the son, as a sufficient\\nexcuse for deserting his duty to the father.\\nThe French Revolution followed close. Fox, in con-\\nformity with his principles, applauded the first move-\\nments of freedom, and the nation united in his senti-\\nments. The excesses which ensued altered the general\\nfeelings the best principles became abhorred, when\\nfound in the mouths of atrocious villains and in the\\nideas of the multitude, Fox became associated with", "height": "3188", "width": "1884", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nStride o er the weak ally with sword in hand,\\nAnd hid them ruin seek at thy command\\nthose who spoke the same language, however different\\ntheir intentions and actions. The consternation after-\\nwards diffused throughout the kingdom, and the vast\\npopularity of his great political antagonist, gave a still\\ndeeper hold to these impressions and no one seemed\\nworthy of public trust., who did not revile Fox as an\\nenemy to his country. His own imprudence was, in-\\ndeed, scarcely less fatal to his interests, than were the\\narts of his adversaries. He gave too free access to men\\nof profligate characters and dark designs He uttered\\nexpressions too violent at any time, but foolish in the ex-\\ntreme amidst the ferment which then prevailed He\\neven degraded himself to a level with the lowest dema-\\ngogues, by haranguing motley mobs in the fields around\\nLondon. His patriotism became more suspected, when\\nhe declared his country to be in extreme danger, and\\nthen took the unmanly resolution of abandoning her\\ncouncils, and consigning himself to ease and retirement.\\nThese acts are indeed attributed to a facility which led\\nhim to yield to men whose opinions he should have des-\\npised But this is only to defend his heart at the expence\\nof his head.\\nThe same lamentable facility suddenly eclipsed the\\nrays which began to break forth at his decline. After\\ntwenty years of opposition, he came into power with-\\nP", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON*:\\nThe torch of war o er shudd ring nations raise, 290\\nAnd shout delighted at the spreading blaze\\nout sacrificing his honour j but his first act, in the House\\nof Commons, as a minister, was the introduction of a\\nbill to enable a colleague to possess at once two impor-\\ntant, rich, and incompatible offices. He seemed to feel\\nhis own degradation He seemed conscious that he was\\nsetting at defiance all his former professions, and tramp-\\nling to dust all the gloiy of his life. His countenance\\nreddened, and his voice became choaked, with shame\\nand anger, when his adversaries reminded him of what\\nhe wished to forget, and reproached him as the tool of\\niniquity and avarice. With this initiation, his former\\nprinciples seemed to have vanished. The worst measure\\nof his predecessors, the property tax, which he had\\nlately reprobated as the most impolitic, unjust, and op-\\npressive, of all exactions, he now supported as an inge-\\nnious device, and defended an increase of its injustice\\nand oppression.\\nMorality is too often neglected by the ambitious, as\\nuseless to their advancement but experience shews\\nthat the want of a good moral character cannot be com-\\npensated to a statesman by any fame of talents. The\\ngeneral opinion of Fox s licentiousness was perhaps the\\ngreatest obstacle to his fortunes, and the glue which\\nmade calumnies so readily adhere to him. He was even\\nbelieved to be the principal instrument in polluting that", "height": "3184", "width": "1888", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 159\\nChastise the dastard fools who, dead to shame,\\nWould damp and smother out the glorious flame;\\nspring, from which the nation expected its future hap-\\npiness to flow nor was this surmise confined to the\\nvulgar. So confirmed was the general opinion of his li-\\ncentiousness, that his adherents, especially in certain dis-\\ntant quarters of the Island, seemed to have assumed it as\\nthe distinguishing badge of their party 5 and youths who\\nprofessed contempt for religion, and practised an un-\\nbounded libertinism, were there almost the only acknow-\\nledged Foxites. The moral act, by which he closed\\nhis gayer career, excited scarcely less reprehension\\nHowever reclaimed and meritorious might be the ob-\\nject of his choice yet it seemed too shocking to deco-\\nrum that the wife of a great statesman should be an im-\\nproper companion for any honest matron.\\nThe mind of Fox was naturally open and liberal j and\\nhis principles bore the stamp of his disposition. He\\nseemed from conviction the assertor of popular rights,\\nand a decided enemy to arbitrary government. Yet his\\nprinciples could not at all times resist either his facility\\nor his warmth and some portion at least of his con-\\nsistency may be attributed to his permanent situation as\\nleader of opposition. He was accused of rank demo-\\ncracy j but with much injustice. He entered political\\nlife among the aristocracy, and with them closed his\\ncareer. It was by their prevailing influence against the\\nP 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "J 60 EPICS OF THE TON\\nKeep peace-struck crowds by traitors pains in awe.\\nAnd loudly call for vigour past the law, 295\\ncrown that he twice became a minister and by them he\\nwas supported throughout. He was a friend to extensive^\\nsuffrage 5 but he knew that the votes of the lower orders\\nmust ever be at the command of the higher. In power,\\nhe had always the interest of the aristocracy in view.\\nHe endeavoured to throw the whole patronage of India\\ninto the hands of the parliament He supported the\\nproperty tax on the principle that men ought, as far as\\npossible, to be retained in the station which they have\\nonce occupied j and that it is quite as reasonable the\\nlower orders should be starved, as that the higher should\\nbe deprived of their usual enjoyments.\\nThe knowledge of Fox was chiefly of that description\\nwhich may be drawn from conversation, or from books\\nof easy perusal. In a country whose prosperity hinges\\non the arrangement of its industry, whose govern-\\nment depends on the skilful support of public credit,\\nhe acknowledged himself ignorant of political economy\\nand finance. He was not deeply versed in official bu-\\nsiness nor had pursued any subject with the accuracy\\nof scientific investigation. But in the political history\\nof his country, in the laws relative to its constitution,\\nin the dispositions and views of foreign powers, in the\\narts which conciliate and lead mankind, his knowledge\\nwas perhaps unrivalled by any modern politician.", "height": "3180", "width": "1876", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nThou, like a fire-tail d comet in the heaven,\\nAbove our trembling heads wert never driven,\\nHis eloquence was the grand foundation of his fame.\\nHe had to straggle with the disadvantages of appear-\\nance. His figure was unpromising, his motions un-\\ngraceful, his voice shrill, and his enunciation, at the\\ncommencement of his speech, indistinct and hesitating.\\nEvery thing announced that all was unpremeditated, and\\nthat the hearer had nothing to expect but the effusions\\nof the moment. But as he proceeded, this circumstance\\nbecame a source of admiration. As he grew warm,\\nhis words began to flow his enunciation became clear\\nand forcible his countenance glowed with ardour, and\\nevery motion spoke the force of his feelings. He\\nhastened directly to his subject It seemed to occupy\\nhis whole soul, to call forth every power of imagination\\nand judgment He was irresistibly hurried on by his\\nemotions, and his hearers were hurried along with him.\\nIn whatever he said there was an air of candour and ear-\\nnestness, which carried in it scarcely less persuasion than\\nhis words. By the rapidity and strength of his concep-\\ntions, he was enabled to place his subject in the clearest\\nlight and he had an unusual facility in calling to his\\nassistance the resources with which books or conversa-\\ntion had supplied him. His wit was very successful,\\nand his sarcasms peculiarly poignant they were not de-\\nP3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON i\\nThy foes and worshippers dismayed alike,\\nAnd all thy glory to confound and strike\\nlivered with bitterness, and they seemed always to fall\\njustly on the head of their object,\\nYet his eloquence was not free from the vices to\\nwhich it was naturally subjected by his habits. His ora-\\ntions were never regular, never skilfully arranged. The\\nhearer, borne along by his warmth, did not discover his\\ndesultory transitions but on recollection, he found it\\ndifficult to retrace the maze which he had traversed.\\nAs he always trusted to the moment, his exhibitions de-\\npended much on the state of his spirits 3 and it was not\\nuncommon to see him labour through a hesitating, de-\\nvious discourse, which scarcely retained the attention af\\nhis hearers.\\nEven those;, who disliked his politics most, admired his\\ndisposition. His friends felt towards him a personal at-\\ntachment and the open frankness of his manner often\\ndisarmed political animosity. He was regarded as the\\nvery model of a true Englishnan.\\nHis early dissipation and the narrowness of his private\\nfortune involved him in perpetual difficulties, which em-\\nbarrassed his mind, and often engaged him in a disagree-\\nable dependence. The expedient of a general contribu-\\ntion of his friends, by which he was at length extrU\\ncated, gave an irrecoverable blow to his respectability,", "height": "3156", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 163\\nNor less the statesman s praise, who seems to feel\\nA heart-touch d interest in the public weal 301\\nThose especially at a distance felt a strange revolution\\nof sentiment, when the idol of their admiration became\\na suppliant for their alms. Some of his enemies had the\\ncruelty to mortify him by their ostentatious subscriptions.\\nHis inviolable attachment to peace was the noblest\\nfeature in his public character. Even his most deter-\\nmined enemies lamented his death, when they saw the\\nnegotiations which had owed their birth entirely to him,\\nexpire as our only Minister of Peace expired.\\nLine 2S9.] It is said that, at the commencement of\\nthe last war, our ambassador at the court of T sc y\\ndemanded an audience of the G d Duke, and, laying\\nhis watch on the table, informed his Highness, that un-\\nless he consented, within a quarter of an hour, to de-\\nclare war against France, he should be considered as at\\nwar with England. Such was the policy to which the\\nkings of Sardinia and Naples, and the unhappy republic\\nof Holland, owed their destruction. It is cruel policy\\nto force into war feeble allies whom we cannot protect.\\nSurrounded by the ocean, and defended by a triumphant\\nnavy, we ought to view with human feelings the mise-\\nries of weak and defenceless states. To make them,\\nthrough terror, draw forth their poor contingents, may\\nbe glorious sport to us, but it is death to them. It has\\nbeen said a poor excuse for injustice that the French", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "164 EPICS OF THE TON\\nWho loves to see a nation s coffers groan\\nWith shining hoards, and but neglects his own.\\nThou, Fox, didst never quaff the public springs,\\nAnd richly batten on the goodly things; 305\\nFrom loaves and fishes seek thy fortune s cure^\\nAnd rather fleece the people than be poor.\\nThou ne er, with strong prudential grasp, didst\\nstrain\\nTo prop thy glories with substantial gain\\nBid law and honour wink the while aside, 310\\nWhile two tall posts thy full-stretch d legs bestride.\\nThou, by example, ne er didst teach the crowd\\nOf public leeches to resound aloud,\\nBlest is the state whose servants are well fed,\\nPlump, sleek, and jolly, rich and warmly clad\\ndo the same by their dependent allies. But we ought\\nto recollect that the French, having their strength by\\nland, are able to protect their allies on the continent.\\nSuch measures might be justifiable if our allies were\\nislanders. Where it is otherwise, we can only witness\\ntheir miserable subjugation, and hear their indignant\\nimprecations on the original authors of their calamities,", "height": "3156", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. l6j\\nW They not disgrace their lords with faces lank, 316\\nWith lantern jaw-bone, and with spindle shank\\nThe nation s glory, forth to view they stand,\\nAnd proudly show the fulness of the land.\\nA count nance frank, a tongue with candour\\nfraught, 320\\nUntouch d by guile, by no self interest caught,\\nPour d round thy very failings such a gleam,\\nThat motes they seem d amidst the noonday beam\\nWhile friendship warm thy darkest days attends,\\nThy public foes were still thy private friends 325\\nAs social converse round the table ran,\\nThey lost the statesman, and retain d the man.\\nThy soul, which o er dark deeds of state arose,\\nAnd spurn d th assassin as the worst of foes,\\nLine 329.] The conduct of Fox towards the pro-\\nposed assassin of Buonaparte gave a glorious refutation\\nto the calumnies which had been propagated in France\\nagainst the statesmen of England. They had been ac-\\ncused of hiring assassins, of contriving infernal ma-\\nchines, of countenancing the most flagitious designs for\\nthe destruction of their enemies. But no sooner did an\\nassassin present himself to Fox, than he caused the", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "166 liPICS OF THE ton:\\nHalf made the ruthless tyrant s hatred cease, 330\\nAnd half had lull d the fever d world to peace.\\nNeglected Peace, who now uprear d the head,\\nHung with mute anguish o er thy dying bed\\nAs closed thine eyes, beheld the closing gloom,\\nAnd stopt on earth to tend thee to thy tomb 335\\nThe with ring olive placed upon thy grave,\\nAnd left the realm she now despair d to save\\nAs late by Jones unfinished pile I pass d,\\nA sullen cloud the noon day skies o ercast\\nwretch to be secured, and sent immediate information\\nto the bitterest foe of Great Britain. I should not, per-\\nhaps, have adverted particularly to this circumstance,\\nhad I not heard some persons, a-kin to the assassin,\\nallege with a sneer, that Fox might have made a less\\nboast of magnanimity that he might have simply dis-\\nmissed the fellow, without becoming guardian to the\\nmortal enemy of his country.\\nLine 33S.] Inigo Jones drew a magnificent plan for\\nrebuilding the palace at Whitehall. But Charles had\\nmore pressing calls upon his treasury than the encou-", "height": "3184", "width": "1828", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 167\\nLarge drops began with patt ring noise to fall, 340\\nAnd jetting rills annoy d me from the wall\\nI sought for shelter underneath that dome,\\nWhere many a half-drown d wight has found a home.\\nAnd, snugly pamper d at the public board,\\nHas strutted forth at length a spruce new lord. 345\\nMen, maids, and matrons, to the archway ran,\\nClerks, courtiers, coblers, all the dusty clan\\nMuch ill was found within, but more without,\\nA mob seem d better than a water-spout.\\nTwo swains, the one beseem d a scriv ner hight,\\nThe other from abroad a wandering knight, 351\\nTogether stood. At length the stranger broke\\nThe formal silence, and inquiring spoke.\\nragement of the fine arts, and the decoration of his ca-\\npital. The small portion of the design which was exe-\\ncuted, remains to teach young architectural geniuses\\nwhat noble monuments they may be enabled to erect to\\ntheir fame at the public expence.\\nLine 342.] The Treasury one of the most desirable\\nbuildings in the nation.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "168 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSeven years have pass d since James s park I ve\\nseen,\\nAnd Wapping but receiv d me yester-e en 356\\nO er many a wave, to many a distant realm,\\nI ve stretch d the canvas, and I ve watch d the\\nhelm\\nrc Great changes, well I ween, have chanced the\\nwhile,\\nAmidst the mighty pilots of our isle\\nThis morn they brought me a newspaper in, 360\\n(i With many a paragraph to raise a grin;\\nThe members too, as usual, pitch d their strength\\nSome spoke in proverbs, some harangued at length;\\nLine 363.1 Here I must observe, that what the tra-\\nveller says of the members speaking in proverbs, or very\\nshort sentences, arises from his ignorance. It is by no\\nmeans the custom of our senatorial orators to degrade\\ntheir eloquence by delivering themselves with this laco-\\nnic abruptness. It is well known that no man (unless\\nhis notes or his memory fail him) sits down willingly,\\nuntil after he has spent an hour upon his legs. Nay, so\\nanxious are some members to do their duty to their con-\\nstituents, that they can never be driven off their post\\ntill a full battery of the whole house opens upon them.", "height": "3192", "width": "1828", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 16*9\\nff There Clianc lors, Secretaries, told at large\\nTheir own great merits, and their mighty charge\\nBut whence their merits sprung, or what their\\nname, 366\\nt{ I knew no more than Tchi-tung s men of fame.\\nee When last I left this land, our ruling great\\n4 Were known to every child in every state\\n(i And round the skirt of Canton s crazy wall 3/0\\nWere famed as much as in St. Stephen s hall.\\nEvery one is aware that the members themselves, in\\nestimating their respective merits in any debate, uni-\\nformly have recourse to the palpable and infallible stand-\\nard of their duration in the perpendicular posture.\\nWhat orators are in greater request than those who can\\nspeak against time The mutilated figure, which many\\nan invaluable three-hour-orator makes in a newspaper,\\nis entirely owing to the necessary limitations of the re-\\nporter. When the final sentence, no more can be in-\\nserted, is announced, then the orator may think himself\\nwell off and favoured who has even his name squeezed\\ninto half a line. We may add, somewhat in the strain\\nof the Italian when speaking of the beauties of his\\nmistress, were all the speeches of all our orators to be\\nreported, paper could not be found to hold them, printers\\nto print them, and certainly not readers to read them.\\nQ", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "1 70 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSay, if thou canst, what new- sprung men are\\nthese,\\nThat hold earth s scales, and rule the lords of seas?\\nUnhappy thou replied the man of pen,\\nCi Who hast as yet to learn these mighty men 375\\nSince Britain first rose from the ebbing wave,\\nNo mightier hands were stretch d her realm to\\nsave\\nNo mightier hands her rivals to o erthrow,\\nl And fix the fetters on the gnashing foe.\\nOf great Canino sure thine ears have heard, 3 SO\\nf Fit for a statesman ere he wore a beard\\nSafe neath his wing, their all scared Britons hold,\\nNor care though lions prowl around the fold.\\nBlest Britain now thy hour of triumph s nigh,\\nO er sea and land thy conquering flag shall fly! 3 85\\nBut who th illustrious sire, and princely dame,\\nThat brought to light the child decreed to Fame\\nHis ancient pedigree, by records good,\\ne Reach d past King Arthur, nay, beyond the flood\\nLine 383.] Lions are said to be terribly afraid of the\\ncrowing of a cock.", "height": "3192", "width": "1828", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 171\\nIn Rome or Athens had he found his birth, 390\\nHis line had soar d beyond the sons of earth\\nSome god of prowess vast, and amorous fame,\\nSome goddess bright, had proved his sire and dame.\\nWith mother-wit to profit e en by play,\\nThrough devious paths he well could find his way 5\\nWith wits could toy, and by their aid attain 396\\nEnds they ne er dreamt of, friends whose smiles\\nwere gain.\\nThus following close, where brilliant fortune led,\\nThe great Canino lifts on high the head\\nBut say what treasures bear aloft his state, 400\\nst What goodly rent-rolls in his train await?\\nWhat independence buoys him o er the tribe\\nThat sell their honour for a lentile bribe\\nLine 389.] The assertion of the author here, though\\nvery wonderful, is urged with a confidence and evident\\nsincerity which cannot be questioned. A few gaps in so\\nVery long a line cannot be reputed any blemish.\\nLine 393.] A number of illustrious personages, in\\nthe earlier ages of Greece and Rome, were accounted\\nthe offspring of certain gods and goddesses. This ho-\\nnour they usually received, when their terrestrial origin\\nlike that of the Nile, was hid in obscurity.\\nQ 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "172 EPJCS OF THE TON\\nl( With eye clear-sighted, and with tempered fire,\\nWhile prudence fed the glow of young desire,405\\nHe sought a bride from Scotland s distant hills,\\nWhere pure spring- water leaps in virgin rills,\\nWhere shepherdesses boast their lily fold,\\nfi And sometimes, not less pleas d, their saffron gold.\\nHence came the fair that bless d Canino s arms,\\nWith cash and beauty, paradisal charms 411\\nPure, spotless, was the wealth from that pure clime\\nWhere children shine not by a parent s crime\\nUnlike the treasures bought with barter d fame,\\n,e Torn from the wretch amidst the midnight game\\nWho, then awaking, starts with curdling blood\\nTo think his infants soon shall gasp for food, 417\\nA dungeon drear his years forlorn attend\\nThen flies from fancy to a direful end\\nWhile the cool murd rer now, around his bed,490\\nSees ruin d phantoms at dark midnight tread\\nAnd, bolts and bars unfit his soul to screen,\\nHe madly hastes to join the grisly scene;\\nLine 403.] Our readers will recollect Esau, who sold\\nhis birth-right for a mess of pottage. His descendants\\nare as yet by no means extinct.", "height": "3192", "width": "1836", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 173\\nThat wealth, for which he sold his peace, resign d,\\niC Left to his heirs, and scatter d on the wind. 425\\nLine 423.] It is dreadful to think that such scenes\\nshould happen and yet they are occurrences too often\\nknown in this capital. Their frequency does not lessen\\ntheir iniquity, but for a deeper stain on the national\\ncharacter. England, indeed, is not so addicted to gaming\\nas other nations but England does not, like other na-\\ntions, groan under a tyranny which renders life of no\\nvalue, and any agitation of the mind a relief from its\\nhabitual terrors. The dreadful tragedies produced by\\nthe sudden reverses of the gaming table are shocking to\\nhumanity. Such catastrophes as those alluded to by the\\npoet take place more frequently than may be imagined.\\nOne instance was some years ago much the subject of\\ndiscourse in one part of our island. An officer of rank,\\nwho had improved a small patrimony into a very large\\nestate by the arts of the gaming table, succeeded one\\nnight in stripping a young gentleman, who had just\\ncome to his fortune, of every farthing which he pos-\\nsessed in the world. The young man, when left to his\\nown reflections, recollected that he was now reduced\\nfrom affluence to beggary that he must relinquish all\\nhis former pleasures, shrink from his acquaintance, and\\nrenounce for ever the object of his wishes, whom, in a\\nfew weeks, he was to have led to the altar. The tor-\\nment of this idea was insupportable. He wrote a letter\\nto the author of his ruin, explaining the causes of his\\nQ 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "]74 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nC( Far different gains Canino s state uphold,\\nNo spot is seen to dim the virtuous gold.\\nCi Thus crown d with wealth, what powers our\\nhopes await,\\nf What mighty talents to support the state\\nAsk you his powers whose fame has fill d the\\nworld, 430\\nu And in the cabinet its flags unfurl d\\ndespair, and imprecating the vengeance of Heaven upon\\nhis head and then with a pistol terminated his mortal\\nexistence. The officer had been hardened, by long\\npractice, to the scenes of misery which his arts pro-\\nduced yet he could not shake off the impression which\\nthis letter made on his mind. He had deliberately in-\\nveigled the youth into play, and had taken every advan-\\ntage of an ignorance which laid itself completely open\\nto his skill. He imagined that he saw the youth conti-\\nnually before him demanding vengeance nor was the\\ngaming table, or any other scene of amusement, able\\nto dispel this terrible idea from his fancy. One morning\\nthe report of a pistol was heard in his bed-room and\\nwhen the servants rushed in, they found him no longer\\nwithin the reach of human assistance.\\nLine 431.] Under each tropic is our language spoke,\\nAnd part of Flanders hath received our\\nyoke. Waller*", "height": "3156", "width": "1796", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 1*.5\\ne Who never fails his cheering friends to charm,\\nSo loud, so long, so very firm, so warm\\nBut far o er all his talents soars his wit,\\nWit never given to Fox, nor caught by Pitt! 435\\nBy this our realm o er foreign foes shall rise,\\nAnd tread on him who heaven and earth defies.\\nNapoleon fierce can face an Austrian gun,\\nNor from a hairy Cossack flinching run\\nCan trot at leisure midst the whizzing balls, 440\\nAnd almost rub against the hostile walls\\nBut this great hero, pierced by pointed words,\\nl Grows soft as lath, and pale as Suffolk curds;\\nLine 433.] The great requisites of an orator in the\\nHouse. If he foams a little, it will have a vastly fine\\nefFect and a violent toss of the head is peculiarly em-\\nphatic. He should often seem to choak with the strength\\nof his emotions j and should never fail to squeeze his\\nwhite handkerchief between his hands, as if he were\\nwringing it out of the wash-tub. He ought to thump\\nthe desk without mercy, if he has one before him and,\\nif he has not, he ought to make up by an audible\\nstamping with his feet. He should never forget to talk\\nof his feelings in every sentence and should often in-\\ntroduce the name of the Almighty, to diffuse a peculiar\\nsolemnity and prevent laughter.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "76 EPICS OF THE TON\\nA pun confounds him, and a smart conceit,\\nOr epigram severe, yet wond rous neat, 445\\nWill lay the braggart prostrate at our feet\\nSuch are the powers by which Canino s hand\\nShall chace the proud usurper from his land.\\nIf F re can tag a rhyme, and G-^ff-fc d still\\nie Can turn a period with a placeman s quill, 4 50\\nu Canino s stores shall then come forth with grace,\\nAt every point a magazine he ll place,\\nWhere er Napoleon turns his ruffian face.\\nLo gainst his front the laden Cossack brings\\nThe English subsidy, fierce verlal stings 455\\nLine 448.] I ll speak daggers, but use none.\\nSlIAKSPEARE.\\nLine 449-] The first of these wits has become a ce-\\nlebrated diplomatist, as the world has heard. The se-\\ncond is a wit of a superior stamp and much did the\\nA n owe to its editor. It is very easy to write\\npretty epigrams when they pass through the hands of\\nsuch a corrector. He now enjoys the rewards of his\\nlabours in a tolerable streamlet from the river of public\\nsweets. He will now again be probably called into\\naction.", "height": "3192", "width": "1836", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 177\\nf While west, south, north, well marshall d in his\\nrear,\\nWith accents dire the tirailleurs appear\\nWith keen barb d darts stuck round, shall fume\\nthe beast,\\nLike baited bull at far-famed Spanish feast\\nTill, quite o ercome, he ll lay him down and die\\nThen be it mine to spread abroad the joy 461\\nFor, Sir, Canino s S 1 y I!\\nO happy times replied the trav ling wight,\\nWe ll take our pleasure, while our Wits shall fight\\nThe nation trusting to such glorious hits, 465\\nWill soon be brought to live upon its wits!\\nG R\\nWhat churl shall blame the thrifty statesman s\\npains,\\nWho mingles public good with private gains;\\nWho for the general profit does his best,\\nNor idly leaves unfeather d his own nest 470\\nAnd never sallying from the law s strong fort,\\nLooks down contemptuous on a Tenth Report.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nI ll praise the man, (let hot-brain d patriots\\nblame,)\\nWho ne er pursued the gossamer of fame\\nAmbition-led firm footing to forsake, 475\\nAnd break his rivals down, or break his neck\\nLine 472.] Nothing is more easy than to escape these\\nterrible bug-bears and he understands his business ill\\nindeed who cannot find means to do every thing he\\nwishes to do, and yet keep clear of a tenth report. The\\ngentlemen, who brought the famous transactions there\\nmentioned to light, certainly ought to have the tribute\\nthey deserve for their public spirit Yet I must own I\\nshould not have liked their labours less, had they been\\nat least indifferent to the friends and foes of the accused,\\nand had their expressions been less severe than their\\nfacts. When there is much charged and little proved\\nagainst a public delinquent, it throws irreparable discre-\\ndit on the very necessary enquiry into abuses, and the\\ndishonest are more secure than ever. Who would at\\npresent be inflamed with the same passions, which men\\nfelt two years ago, by the production of another Tenth\\nReport Owing to this very cause, I am convinced, our\\nCommissioners for Military Enquiry, who have far\\ngreater abuses to produce, will excite a much less fer-\\nment by their discoveries. The only persons, whose\\nreputation will suffer much from their labours, are such\\nas may be invidiously exempted from their cognizance,", "height": "3196", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 179\\nWho, void of patronage, and void of pence,\\nBut gifted with Heaven s manna, common sense,\\nThe lowest station with contentment held,\\nTook what he could, nor once in thought rebell d\\nWith patience waited till the angel came, 481\\nThen forward stept, and felt a mended frame\\nWho still grew rich where others had grown poor,\\nWho saw much change yet felt himself secure\\nWho adding daily farthings to his store, 485\\nBy little thrived, yet saw it still grow more\\nWho, step by step, unmark d by friends or foes,\\nStill held the course, and towards the summit rose\\nTill snugly seated near the highest aim,\\nMen look d at length, and wonder d whence he\\ncame. 490\\nBlest is the premier who such friends can find,\\nFor all occasions fitted to his mind\\nLine 4S2-] It is of infinite importance to be in pro-\\nper preparation for stepping in when the angel comes to\\ntrouble the pool of Shiloam. Many a worthy servant of\\nthe public, like the infirm man in the gospel, is con-\\ndemned to starve in grey hairs, from the want of some\\nfriendly hand to help him to the waters at the fortunate\\nmoment.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "180 EPICS OF THE TON\\nHe ne er shall dread, lest, thirsting for renown,\\nThey trip his heels, and thrust him headlong down\\nOr, in the fever of an idle brain, 495\\nHis schemes perplex with projects wild and vain,\\nLine 4Qfj.] There is a set of men (happily for the\\nsecurity of administrations the number is small) who\\nhave some favourite popular projects, from which they\\nexpect much reputation, and which they consequently\\nlong to carry into execution. These are very dangerous\\npersons, and infinitely troublesome to a minister. Mr.\\nPitt seems to have held the reins of such unruly spirits\\nmuch more firmly than perhaps any ether minister in our\\nannals, and his stability remained undisturbed in pro-\\nportion. Both Mr. Fox s administrations v/ere remark-\\nable for a contrary conduct, and their duration was ac-\\ncordingly. During his former administration, that man\\nof schemes, Mr. Burke, had almost daily something\\nnew to propose. He scrutinized the public offices,\\nlopped off many sinecures and so forth and at last he,\\nwith all his colleagues, ran mad after a reformation of\\nIndian affairs, and was about to clip courtly patronage\\nat a terrible rate. The issue was such as they might\\nhave expected they were scarcely warm in their places,\\nwhen they were turned out stark naked into the streets.\\nThe last administration, broad-bottomed as it was, upset\\nfrom similar causes. We had a slave-trade bill for the\\nWest Indies, a law-court bill for Scotland, and a con-\\nscience-bill for Ireland, and\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a consequent dismission", "height": "3184", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 181\\nOr, with quaint scruples, starting from their course,\\nOf honour talk like officer of horse\\nOr, bashful, like young Miss of downcast eye,\\nBlush to assert, and then, next hour, deny j 500\\nOr nice and dainty, their associates chuse,\\nTo part with this, or act with that refuse\\nfor ministers. There were not a few other foolish\\nschemes agitated by several members of the party.\\nAmong the rest it is impossible to pass by, without re-\\nprehension, the wild attempt of Sir Samuel Romilly to\\nrender the estates in land assets for debt. He, good\\neasy man certainly imagined that the proprietors of\\nfreehold estates, who form the majority in both houses\\nof parliament, would actually surrender a real privilege\\nfrom a fanciful principle of honour that they would be\\nwilling to give up a right to be dishonest, to pay justly\\nwhat they had engaged to pay that they would rathe.-\\nleave their posterity an unblemished good name, than an\\nestate preserved by infamy and that they would hence-\\nforth endeavour to provide for their children by prudence\\nand economy, rather than by fraudulent depredations on\\nthe industrious part of the community. May Sir Samuel\\nRomilly for the future learn to study men rather than\\nabstract principles and may the remembrance of this\\ntransaction remain everlastingly attached to his name\\nR", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "182 EPICS OF THE TON\\nOr, discontented with the state they hold,\\nCall for new honours, and make nought of gold\\nToo vain their proper station e er to see, 505\\nAnd, form d for drudges, would task-masters be.\\nTrain d to the desk, and dext rous at the pen,\\nThis is the age that honours useful men\\nSome courtly lord, or orator of fame,\\nThe loftier stations, as his right, may claim 510\\nAt home, abroad, employ the public tongue,\\nAnd seem the arbiter of right and wrong\\nThe useful man who knows the old jog-trot,\\nAnd what was done before, and what was not\\nSkill d in the power of every wheel and pin, 515\\nTo keep in motion the complex machine\\nAnd, though the charioteer wind to and fro,\\nThrough smooth and rugged still can make it go\\nAt dangerous plunges haste the drag to drop,\\nNor fright the public by an actual stop 520\\nLeave the high-horsemen to their wayward flights,\\nAnd wisely labour to keep all to rights:\\nSuch is the man, who still his course can find,\\nWith every current, and with every wind", "height": "3156", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 183\\nAnd quite as useful whosoe er presides, 525\\nAlong the stream of party gently glides.\\nSuch are the statesmen honour d in our times,\\nSuch are the patriots of our prudent climes j\\nUnlike those airy dreamers fancy-taught,\\nThose rapt enthusiasts by warm visions caught, 530\\nAll sordid views, all selfish ends, above,\\nWho loved their country with a lover s love\\nWho thought the blood, which for their nation flow d,\\nA little part of what their duty owed\\nWho lavish d fortune, and grew fond of toil, 535\\nTo gain new blessings for their native soil\\nAnd, blest to see the wealth of others grown,\\nGave thanks to heaven, and quite forgot their own.\\nw w\\nNor teems our age alone with men of use,\\nBright men of genius too the times produce j 540\\nWhose fancy ne er in sober counsel sits,\\nWhose judgments scarce o ertake their eagle wits;\\nWho bound from north to south, from east to west,\\nAlone consistent in their hate to rest.\\nr 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "1 84 EPICS OF THE TON\\nFrom these selected, we may chance to find 545\\nSome soaring genius of a vaster mind\\nWho greatly brilliant o er the rest appears,\\nLike comets sweeping through the lesser spheres.\\nAsk you his party Some have judg d it known,\\nBut beat the bush, and proved the bird was flown\\nHave found the Whig a Tory in his heart, 551\\nAnd the keen patriot act the placeman s part\\nNow shout of rights, impeachments, and reforms,\\nNow shuddering warn the state of coming storms\\nNow call the people to assert their own, 555\\nNow bid them crouch, and skulk behind the throne\\nNow talk of freedom as an angel bright,\\nNow as a fiend that lurks for prey by night\\nOr driven by fear, or led by deeper wit,\\nThe friend of Fox become the friend of Pitt 560\\nOr, wheeling round, when not allow d to reign,\\nDesert from Pitt, and turn to Fox again.\\nLine 562.] Something may be said to extenuate all\\nthis. A professed imitator, who neither sees with his\\nown eyes, nor hears with his own ears, must often\\nfall into errors the more grotesque as they are not origi-", "height": "3156", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 185\\nThe man of genius in the council see,\\nHis colleagues tell they could not once agree\\nStill full prepared, and never at a loss, 5G5\\nTo raise objections, and all schemes to cross\\nMaintain his counter-plans were wise and good,\\nAnd only fail to make them understood.\\nThe eye of genius things so strangely strike,\\nThey seem at diff rent periods quite unlike 570\\nnal. Burke was himself a singular character, and, in\\nmost parts of his life, an object rather of our wonder\\nthan applause. But Burke at second hand can scarce-\\nly fail to excite the former without the latter emo-\\ntion. imitatores servim pecus To this principle of\\nimitation I could trace many of the most glaring faults\\nof a man naturally capable of better things.\\nThe terrors of the French Revolution turned many a\\nbrain previously sound and vigorous. I am inclined to\\nthink that the panic of the party who deserted their\\nformer associates was in a great measure real, and that\\nthey actually expressed much of what they felt. Yet I\\nshould have been as well satisfied of their patriotism, had\\nthey been to lose loaves and fishes, by the change, instead\\nof gaining them. Burke unwarily acknowledged that\\nhe had in view to make a family. Another statesman\\nseemed by his silence to have his mouth too full to\\nspeak.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "186 EPICS OF THE TON\\nNow clearly seen by opposition s beam,\\nStrange, monstrous, huge, the fees of office seem\\nNow somewhat by the clouds of place obscured,\\nThese ills prodigious are with ease endured\\nThings to which none but mean-soul d thrift attends,\\nCheese-parings mere, and useless candle-ends. 576\\nE en rank abuses, which could once inspire\\nThe man of genius with consuming fire,\\nWho almost burnt Whitehall with words of flame,\\nWhile recreant placemen trembled at his name 5SO\\nNow shoot luxuriant underneath his nose,\\nWhile, like his brethren, he enjoys his doze j\\nAnd L n stuffs his thousands in his purse,\\nAnd finds a blessing where he fear d a curse.\\nLine 584.] It is amusing to hear an opposition orator\\nthundering against the permission of abuses and, after-\\nwards, when in office, giving full swing to the worst of\\nthem. The pickings in a particular office were cheese-\\nparings and candle-ends with a vengeance. One clerk\\npocketed yearly, by his dexterity, as much as would\\nhave almost paid all the regular salaries of the Cabinet.\\nIt is not the legal emoluments of the efficient offices that\\nare enormous they are in many instances too small.", "height": "3184", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 197\\nFrom projects numerous as the motes of sun, 585\\nTo strike th astonish d world he seiz d on one\\nHere fix d his rest, and hence defiance hurl a\\nAt all projectors who misled a world.\\nThen Britain dreamt of honours near at hand,\\nOf feats at sea surpass d by deeds on land 590\\nOf willing myriads to her camp that throng,\\nAnd all by pure affection drawn along;\\nMen little moved by bounty, less by pay,\\nAnd quite content with penny more a day\\nOf mighty armies form d from bands like these, 595\\nWho soon would Europe of her chains release\\nAnd, patriot ardour join d to sudden art,\\nThe magic spells dissolve of Bonaparte\\nThus Britain dream d but when she oped her eyes\\nTo look around her for realities, 600\\nA midwife speech came posting to the House,\\nAnd from the lab ring hills produced a mouse.\\nThe leeches that suck under cover exhaust the blood of\\nthe nation. Alas how many years will pass before our\\nCommissioners of Inquiry shall have laid open these\\nevils, and pointed out a sufficient remedy", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "188 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSay who shall catch bright genius as it flies.,\\nOr reconcile its contrarieties\\nTo soft humanity in gentle ways, 605\\nA gallant tribute now Ventoso pays\\nTells of those courteous knights, who, all for fame,\\nRelieved the oppress d, and freed the captive dame\\nIn whose pure breast no wayward passion r\u00c2\u00a9se,\\nWho scorn d to triumph but o er equal foes 610\\nLine 602.] I should be far from blaming a minister\\nfor bringing forward new plans. God knows we have\\nneed of many new devices, where the old have proved\\nso miserably defective. Some changes in our military\\nestablishment seemed in a particular manner desirable,\\nsince the nation was evidently at a vast expence to little\\npurpose. The fate of our military projects has, how-\\never, been the oddest of all our political fatalities. One\\nminister brought forward what he termed a gigantic\\nmeasure but, like other giants, it was only fit for a shew,\\nand was both unwieldy and short lived. A greater mi-\\nnister produced some strange appearance which a witty-\\norator compared to a graminivorous animal with two\\nstomachs which this wit, in his turn, converted into\\nan animal without any stomach at all. We shall now\\nsee still more strange monsters generated, or I am much\\nmistaken, by our present admirable military politician.", "height": "3156", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 1 89\\nAnd stout as generous, merciful as brave,\\nWere proud to conquer, and more proud to save\\nNow hear him, in an English bull-dog mood,\\nCall, with a patriot voice, for scenes of blood\\nHold that a gory bull by dogs all torn, 615\\nAnd dogs embowell d on its mangling horn,\\nWhere mingled groans and yells the crowd invite,\\nAnd bones bereft of flesh amuse the sight,\\nWill make bold Britons thirst for Gallic gore,\\nAnd add new trophies to their bays of yore 620\\nBrave and relentless, piecemeal tear the foe,\\nAnd, still insatiate, for new triumphs glow.\\nLine 6 22.] The idea of rendering a people courage-\\nous by accustoming them to bloody sights has unhappily\\nnot been followed up as it deserved. It is a great stain\\non the activity of the illustrious statesman who so ener-\\ngetically supported the opinion, that he did not, when\\nhe was in power, cause institutions to be set on foot, in\\nall the great towns of the kingdom, for promoting bull-\\nbaitings, and superintending the public worrying of dogs\\nand cats. It has, indeed, been suspected that, as the\\nlevy en masse was evidently good for nothing else, it was\\nintended for some purpose of this sort. By seeing this\\naukward squad hewed down by the enemy, it is incredi-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190 EPICS OF THE ton:\\nAnd such was he who deem d it nought to move\\nThe willing ardour of a people s love\\nWho judged the men that, freely and unpaid, 625\\nPerform d the task which others held a trade,\\nThat, prompt to save, and zealous to defend,\\nTheir life, their labour, to the state would lend\\nA butt for humour, and a mark for game,\\nAnd well repaid with jeers, and galling shame 630\\nWhile some fierce pamphleteer, who, rich in spleen,\\nWith loud, loose scandals, vapour d round the\\nscene,\\nWho all men s honour, all men s skill debased,\\nDefamed all others, but Ventoso praised\\nShould with the worthies have his name enroll d,\\nAnd to his fame a statue rear d of gold 636\\nble what intrepidity our regular forces would acquire.\\nIt may, however, be questioned whether it would not\\nbe quite as effectual, as well as more safe, to have a\\nguillotine erected in each parish, and chop off the heads\\nof a certain number of the squad every training day, in\\nthe presence of a regular regiment.\\nLine 636J] A statue of gold a Colossus of brass I\\nsuspect the latter would now be the tribute proposed by", "height": "3188", "width": "1796", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 191\\nStill to be singular, his constant view,\\nAnd, what no other would, to say and do\\nStill wrapt in mazy clouds of paradox,\\nAnd still most pleas d when most our sense he mocks,\\nNo tame consistency to curb his plan, 64 1\\nLet others reconcile it if they can\\nNow would he bring no soldiers to the field,\\nBut all the best which all the land could yield\\nPure gold quite sever d from the drossy nation, 645\\nAnd quite new men by martial education\\nNow Sunday mobs, with Constable at head,\\nTo church-yard camps by general Sexton led,\\nWith pike accouter d, or old rusty gun,\\nWith swearing corporal, drummer, fife, and fun,\\nWith beer- pot ready, and attendant wench, 651\\nAre quite the thing to overthrow the French\\nOne day he ll talk of learning and what not,\\nAnother praise the wiser Hottentot\\nMaintain his breast with purer feelings glows, 655\\nAnd guts and garbage arc the best of clothes.\\nVentoso himself for of late he has had his trimming as\\nwell as others.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nNow hear him tell how little s due to birth,\\nHow education makes the man of worth\\nNow hear him hold that men, just as they re born,\\nAre good and bad, as spring the tares, or corn 660\\nNor teacher more can change them by his care,\\nThan give or take high cheek-bones, and red hair.\\nBut hear the genius orator declaim,\\nAnd strive to gain the palm of wordy fame\\nLine 662. Such was the argument lately made use\\nof by a great orator against Mr. Whitbread s Bill for the\\neducation of the poor. To appeal to the example of\\nthe Scots/ said he, is ridiculous. To attribute the\\ngood morals and industry of the lower orders of Scot-\\nland to their education, is as absurd as to attribute their\\nhigh cheek-bones and red hair to education. The lower\\norders of the Scots are superior to the English because\\nthey are a better breed. If you would mend the morals\\nof the nation yon must mend the breed. These ex-\\npressions have given rise to a report, that the next plan\\nof that sagacious orator will be a proposal to mend the\\nEnglish breed by the importation of a certain proportion\\nof Scottish males and females for each parish. It is\\nadded that Sir J. S-^^^r, who understands the cross-\\ning of breeds above all men, is to take a principal part\\nin the organization of the measure.", "height": "3180", "width": "1780", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 193\\nThere Fancy throws poor Reason in the shade, 665\\nThere Exclamation lends her brilliant aid\\nThere figures strange, by some enchantment caught,\\nAre neck and heels, into the service brought\\nThere three leg d metaphors o er hedge and stile\\nBound with high limp, and fall into the toil 670\\nThere words new-coin d, and phrases from rag- fair,\\nWith thoughts refined, and turns poetic, pair\\nThere, Metaphysic spreads her robe of snow,\\nAnd, at her elbow, starts to hear dust-ho\\nStrange is the motlev groupe produced to view, 675\\nWhere somethings always odd, and something new;\\nAmused, fatigued, and never well content,\\nThe hearer loses but the argument\\nProfuse the garnish covers every spot,\\nAnd but the foolish dishes are forgot. 680\\nTo guide the state, O set this genius vast,\\nLaputa s glories soon shall be surpass d 5\\nLine 682.] The ingenious and important inventions,\\nor projected inventions, of the Laputans are known to\\nevery reader. The only great advantage over us, which\\nthese illustrious islanders derive from nature,, consists in\\nS", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "194 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThe same dessert shall oft conclude the feast,\\nAnd one plum-pudding serve a week at least\\nBright beams from cucumbers chace winter keen,\\nAnd ladies fair through cobweb-robes be seen. 686\\nR B S-koAk\\nAt times Dame Nature, in a bounteous mood,\\nA soil prepares for any produce good;\\nThere yellow harvests may luxuriant shoot,\\nThere on the vine may swell the clustering fruit\\nThere, if neglected, every weed design d 69 1\\nThe sloth to chasten of the lingering hind,\\nThe nettle, briar, thistle, dock may grow,\\nAnd far and wide the yellow ragwort blow.\\nthe moveable construction of their island. Were ours\\ncapable of being navigated in this manner, how easily\\nmight we escape Bonaparte by simply making a voyage\\nto the Pacific His flotillas could never pretend to follow\\nus. From the measures of defence, which have of late\\nyears been adopted, one is led to suppose that our mini-\\nsters are not without expectations that means may be\\ndiscovered of setting our island afloat in this manner.", "height": "3196", "width": "1796", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 195\\nIn any calling might Tigellius shine, 695\\nThe moving orator, the bard divine\\nRule as the statesman, as the wit enchant,\\nSuch powers did Nature to her favourite grant.\\nTigellius felt the boon and, all by turns,\\nThe wit, the bard, the orator, he burns 700\\nScarce for a day his loved pursuit the same,\\nAnd still deserting ere he wins the game.\\nTo rival Shakspeare see his genius rise,\\nHis taste excels, his wit with Shakspeare vies\\nYet see the pigmy monument he rears 705\\nTwo plays are all the work of thirty years;\\nSave one burlesque to mock the Bavian throng,\\nOne maudlin farce, mere vehicle for song.\\nLine 707.] Such burlesques are not without their\\nutility and, if tolerably executed, are always amusing.\\nThe genius which they require is not however of the\\nfirst rate, for several have been successful. The chief\\npraise is given to the inventor of this mode of writing j\\nand the author of the Rehearsal will therefore always be\\nmore noted than the author of the Critic.\\nLine 708.] I believe few have seen the Duenna, when\\nwell acted, without pleasure j and I believe as few have\\ns 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "J96 EPICS OF THE TON\\nAt length, deserting genius, see him job\\nA German tragedy to please the mob 710\\nProp with smart crutch Anne Plumptre s hobbling\\nstile,\\nAnd of its blossoms the Gazette despoil\\nread it with pleasure. A good actor may make some-\\nthing both of the incidents and the dialogue but in the\\ncloset, little Isaac is almost as dull as the unaccount-\\nable appendage Don Carlos. As a vehicle for songs,\\nhowever, it may be so so, as times go but alas is it\\nfrom the author of the School for Scandal that we ought\\nto expect mere vehicles\\nLine 711.] This lady is well known throughout the\\nnation as the faithful retailer in English of whatever Kot-\\nzebue chooses to pour forth in German. She has tran-\\nslated all his plays and travels incomparable industry\\nand at a rate so moderate, as her publisher will acknow-\\nledge, that she must either be much in love with the\\nwork, or miserably tired of it.\\nLine 712.] The reader is aware that all those loyal\\naddresses, in which the worthy citizens of our corpora-\\ntions breathe out warm devotions at the foot of the\\nthrone, are inserted in the Gazette. Whether some ce-\\nlebrated speeches delivered at Drury-Lane, from the pen\\nof a great poet, do not bear a striking resemblance, in", "height": "3184", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nWith royal ravings make the scene absurd^\\nAnd turn Ataliba to George the Third\\nsentiment and style, to the usual strain of these ad-\\ndresses, the knowing reader is left to determine.\\nLine 713.] There is nothing which more certainly\\nand readily disgusts us with the dainties of which we are\\nmost fond, than to be obliged to swallow them in large\\nquantities on every occasion. No one will distrust the\\npowers which I, or any other Englishman possess, of\\ndigesting loyal effusions in the theatre. In this way we\\nhave all most invincible stomachs. Yet it must be ac-\\nknowledged that of late we have had the dainty admi-\\nnistered in such unreasonable proportions, that to relish\\nit at least is more than can be expected from us. I could\\nmention some score of plays, and twice as many farces,\\nwhich have come forward with the sole merit of an\\nabundant provision of loyal clap-traps. This is taking\\nadvantage of loyalty with a vengeance. It must, like\\ncharity, cover a multitude of iniquities the want of\\nwit, interest, and common sense. The play of Pizarro\\nhas the merit of being among the first dramas in which\\nloyal sentimentality was turned to such excessive good\\naccount. But if its glowing speeches raised the patrio-\\ntism of the nation, they certainly have as much debased\\nits taste 5 and after its great popularity, we have little\\nreason to look for nature and simplicity in any serious\\ndramatic performance. Did ever the savages of Peru\\ns 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "i 98 EPICS OF THE TOX\\nPizarro set to Bonaparte s d d work, 715\\nWhile Rolla represents his Grace of York\\nO loyal bard O labours not in vain\\nAs tells the treasurer s box of Drury Lane\\nWhate er Whig bumpers cool thy loyal heat,\\nA patriot thou to Drury and the Fleet 720\\nOnce more bursts forth bright genius ere it close,\\nAnd, join d with Johnstone, can a shew compose\\nspeak in such a manner But indeed the sentiments are\\nthe property of no nation, nor of any race, under\\nHeaven.\\nLine 7 19-] It cannot be forgotten that at the Whig\\nClub (a society which have the honour of perpetuating\\na party distinction, a century after the ground of its ex-\\nistence is removed) it became fashionable, some years\\nago, to omit that antiquated toast The King. The sub-\\nstitute was the Sovereignty of the People. But in Drury\\nLane, it was found convenient to hold different senti-\\nments, and to drink his Majesty s health with every\\nbumper.\\nLine 720.] Our readers will recollect a famous pa-\\ntriotic exhibition which took place during the mutiny at\\nthe Nore, which will be presently alluded to in its pro-\\nper place.", "height": "3156", "width": "1836", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "THE MALE COOK. lQQ\\nThe walks of Shakspeare and of Farquhar leaves,\\nAnd in a cavern hides with Forty Thieves.\\nNow see the orator triumphant blaze, 725\\nWhile crowds the accents catch with eager gaze\\nHear him the great oppressor strike with dread,\\nAnd call for vengeance on his guilty head;\\nLine 722.~\\\\ Johnstone the machinist of Drury Lane\\ntheatre, a most ingenious man, and one of the best\\nplay-wrights of the age. Without his assistance, what\\nwould become of our heroes of the north, our wood de-\\nmons, and other respectable personages of the same\\nclass In the composition of a Pantomimic Operatic\\nTrajedy, the favourite drama of the day, the labour of\\nthe poet is one of the least things to be considered.\\nDixit ad hue aliquid Nil sane. Quid placet ergo\\nLana Tarentino violas imitata colore.\\nLine 728.] Whatever might be the justice or injus-\\ntice of the prosecution of a certain well-known governor\\nof a distant part of our Empire, it afforded an unusual\\nfield for the display of eloquence. Mr. S\u00e2\u0080\u0094 availed\\nhimself of it with infinite success. Two speeches which\\nhe delivered on this occasion were the ground-work of\\nhis oratorical fame. It may indeed be doubted whether\\nthese very fine and very long speeches did not more sig-\\nnalize the orators than promote the cause. So many", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a700 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThe wrongs of injured innocence deplore,\\nThe crimes of Britons on a distant shore 730\\nOr starting forward with a patriot s fire,\\nBid fierce sedition panic-struck expire j\\nOr twine a well-earn d wreathe to crown the brave,\\nThe men unpaid who would their country save;\\nfive-hour speeches could not be all substantial nay,\\nsome of the judges have assured me that they found it\\nvery difficult, among so many fine things, to discover\\nany thing substantial at all.\\nLine 732.] There were few occasions on which a\\npopular orator could have made a temporary excursion\\nfrom bis party with so much grace, as during the mu-\\ntiny at the Nore. The character of Mr. S. seemed\\nsuddenly to start out from behind a cloud, and to shine\\nin the eyes of all the nation with redoubled lustre. It\\nwas attributed to vanity, to the mere desire of shining\\nbut it might as well be called the master-stroke of a poli-\\ntician.\\nLine 734.] This was also another occasion on which\\nMr. S. very gracefully differed from his party. His eu-\\nlogium on the Volunteers, and his motion of a vote of\\nthanks to them, procured him a very general popularity\\nthroughout the nation nor have all the jeers of some\\nof his plan-making friends effaced the impression, as", "height": "3188", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 201\\nOr see him with the lash of ridicule, 735\\nWhip through the town the oafs that strut and rule\\nWhate er emotion he would raise appears,\\nA burst of laughter, or a flood of tears\\nThe dazzling flash of patriotic fire,\\nOr all the transports of indignant ire. 740\\nMr. W abundantly witnessed at a late civic feast,\\nwhere he was greeted with The Volunteers and three\\ntimes three.\\nLine 736.] Nothing can be more poignant and more\\nadroitly introduced than Mr. S. s strokes of oratorical hu-\\nmour. Witness the celebrated speech in which he, for\\never, attached, to the Addingtonian administration, the idea\\nof posteriors torn by force from their upper parts. His\\nwitticisms are by no means of that half-formed, ill-di-\\ngested, and ill-directed nature, which the irregular effu-\\nsions of the moment always are. They are all evidently\\nformed and matured with care 3 and stored up, to be\\nproduced on a proper occasion, like well-arranged dag-\\ngers in an armoury.\\nLine 740.] It is an opinion which I do not hesitate\\nto avow, that Mr. S. had from nature qualifications for\\nbecoming an orator, superior to almost any other man of\\nhis age. In imagination, in suavity of utterance, in pe-\\nnetration into the sentiments of men, and in the power", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "202 EPICS OF THE TON\\nBut, gifted thus, why never at the height,\\nWhere words are power, and eloquence is might\\nWhy do mere talkers to the summit rise,\\nWhile, at the mountain s base, supine he lies\\nof working upon them, he was equal to either Fox or\\nPitt. Had he improved his great natural parts by the\\nspecies of knowledge possessed by either, and had he\\nreached the industry and perseverance even of Fox in\\nthe pursuit of his objects, neither of them would have\\nthrown him into the rank of a star of the second mag-\\nnitude. But fancy without knowledge, and eloquence\\nwithout any steady pursuit, will never raise any orator\\nto eminence. These shining qualities will only procure\\ntheir owner the mortifying commendation what an\\norator he might have been\\nLine 742.] Great Britain, from its political constitu-\\ntion, is the only nation of modern Europe where this\\nholds good. However wealth and family influence may\\nbear the sway, the first orator in the House of Com-\\nmons may always aspire to be the first minister of the\\nnation. If the case be otherwise, it is owing more to\\nthe misconduct of the orator himself, than to his want\\nof power. If, indeed, there be two great and rival\\norators, nearly matched, both cannot be at the pinnacle\\nof government but the one will be at the head of the\\nopposition, the next station in this country to that of\\nPrime Minister.", "height": "3192", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 203\\nAlas like marsh-born fires that gleam by night,\\nHe gives no useful heat, no useful light 746\\nWhile jolly fellows push the claret round,\\nAnd catch and glee, with thrice-three-toasts resound;\\nWhile ladies chat, or dice the vigils keep,\\nAnd one night s watching calls for one day s sleep\\nNo party trust to find him at his post, 751\\nOr count to have him when they need him most\\nDry business o er, tis then they rest on him\\nThe soul of ease, good fellowship, and whim.\\nA famed light-horseman, when the foes appear,\\nTo drive the out-posts, or alarm the rear 756\\nOr, when in mood, with reeking faulchion keen,\\nAmidst the first in thickest battle seen\\nAll soothe his wrath, and for his love contend,\\nThey dread the foe who little prize the friend. 760\\nThe worst of drudges, yet unfit to lead,\\nNor to the House more punctual than his bed\\nLine 746.] These meteoric lights emit no heat, and\\ntheir light only serves occasionally to delude travellers\\nby night into marshes, from which they may find it dif-\\nficult to escape.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "204 EPICS OF THE TON\\nForth like the aloe, in a sudden blow,\\nBright as unlook d for, still a public show,\\nHis flowers of oratory burst amain, 765\\nBut close again to blossom God knows when\\nCareless of place, unapt to win or hold,\\nAnd more solicitous of ease than gold\\nWhen his starved friends, who twice ten years had\\nfound\\nNo hope, the Treasury s walls beleag ring round,\\nAt length the stubborn citadel surprise, 771\\nAnd enter, sword in hand, and fire in eyes\\nOne grasps a shining post, and one makes sure\\nOf something snug, a patent sinecure\\nTigellius gets what others fail to claim, 775\\nOr what they leave him, even through very shame.\\nShut from the cabinet which others reach,\\nWithout his years, his powers of thought or speech\\nLine 763.] The American aloe is frequently shown\\nin the gardens about London. It blossoms only at dis-\\ntant periods 3 and the sight of one in full blossom is suf-\\nficiently rare to attract crowds. The figure appears\\nabundantly happy.", "height": "3156", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 205\\nSome post unenvied e en must serve his turn,\\nSome place obscure, which C- g now would\\nspurn. 7 SO\\nHow oft to age the galling crosses sent,\\nChastise the errors of a youth mispent;\\nLine 7 SO.] The public seemed sensible of the cutting\\ncontumely with which the party ventured to treat the\\nmost brilliant genius among them, and second in talents\\nto Fox alone. Yet he could not complain. He had\\nfitted himself for nothing beyond a sinecure he was un-\\nacquainted with the details of business, and utterly in-\\ncapable of supporting the labour of it. He therefore\\nfound it most adviseable to slink into a secondary post,\\nwhere there was scarcely any thing to do, and where he\\nshould find means of giving one other splendid fete,\\nbefore the final dropping of the curtain. His T rship\\nof the N y was distinguished by two occurrences.\\nThe one was that brilliant fete of his installation, which\\nlasted three days and nights, and which was supposed\\nto have consumed at least a moiety of the annual salary.\\nThe other was the firing of some great guns, which\\nmade all the town crowd to Whitehall, in hopes of\\nhearing the particulars of some important victory when\\nin fact in proved to be only a salute, fired by order of\\nthe T of the N in honour of some ladies\\nwho had accompanied him on a water-party.\\nT", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "206 EPICS OF THE TON\\nAnd harshly end, the folly to repair.\\nUntimely ease, with more untimely care\\nWith little prudence, and but little toil d, 785\\nO er plenteous gains Tigellius might have smiled,\\nWhile life as yet was young, and fortune seem d\\nTo grant success which others only dream d\\nBut to his grasp no sooner came the hoard,\\nThan all was flown to seek another lord 790\\nStill more required to spend than he could get,\\nAnd no store left him but a store of debt.\\nHence Drury tells of thousands snatch d away,\\nAnd hapless mimics reft of weekly pay\\nOf Aaron s rod, a serpent in their eyes, 795\\nAnd of more cause to feed them than chastize j\\nHow Equity s great chief maintain d their cause,\\nAnd from the woolsack gave the drama laws.\\nLine 795. This Aaron, although not the brother of\\nMoses, is a personage not less formidable to the Egyp-\\ntians. His rod is in their eyes a very serpent. It was a\\npractical, though rather a biting illustration of that law,\\nwhich includes players among rogues and vagabonds,\\nwhen a police magistrate was made the active manager\\nof Drury-Lane.", "height": "3192", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 207\\nWhile some to compass gold all comfort cross,\\nTigellius knows to live without the dross 800\\nBlest science sure to all whose fund s in doubt,\\nThrice blest to those whose credit s fairly out\\nYet things there are which fill the stout with dread,\\nAnd raise a megrim in the soundest head\\nEven gallant soldiers scarce can use their feet, 805\\nWhile duns and tipstaffs eye them in the street\\nBut Britain s statutes, kind to men of spirit,\\nSome refuge yet provide for drooping merit\\nA shrine there is, from duns a safe retreat,\\nNor shut from wit or gold, yclep d a seat j 810\\nThis shrine who touches may his cares forego,\\nAnd, owing thousands, nothing seem to owe\\nThen tradesmen vile, who dare to claim their own,\\nShall, sad, for breach of privilege atone.\\nLine 813.] It is necessary to invest all public func-\\ntions with certain privileges, in order to render them an\\nobject of desire. The affairs of the nation would other-\\nwise find no one to carry them on, unless a few idle\\npersons, who might undertake them for God s sake. That\\nprivilege, which exempts the members of the House of\\nCommons from paying their debts, (for the lords derive\\nT 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "208 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nThe friend of genius, patron of young worth, 815\\nTigellius might have call d new Shakspeares forth\\nWith wreathes himself had foster d, crown d the\\nstage,\\nA famed Mecaenas in an iron age.\\nthe same exemption from nature) is peculiarly well\\nadapted for giving estimation to a seat in that assembly.\\nIt is unquestionable that he who has to chuse between\\nThe King s Bench and St. Stephen s Chapel will conceive\\na violent predilection for the latter. Persons also, who\\nfly to the Legislature as a sanctuary, must ever be con-\\nsidered as best adapted to the public service, having no\\nprivate concerns to manage, and being entirely disen-\\ngaged from those cares of wealth which so miserably\\nembarrass the public mind. They are in short the men\\nto do any thing, to be pleased with any thing for any\\nthing is better than nothing. Their perseverance is not\\nlikely to be overcome, nor their courage to be subdued\\nby popular clamours\\nVirtus repulsae nescia sordidas,\\nNee sumit aut ponit secures,\\nArbitrio popularis aurae.\\nIt is fair that the legislators, who make the laws, should,\\nin some instances, exempt themselves from the power\\nof these creatures of their own hands.", "height": "3184", "width": "1808", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 209\\nAlas though his to judge, though his to give,\\nTo public fame, the scenes that ought to live, 820\\nTo him what genius owns his honours due\\nWhom has his fost ring bounty brought to view\\nThe title read, away the paper tost,\\nAgain unlook d for, and at length quite lost,\\nThe fruits of toil, the hopes of youth are thrown,\\nWhile the poor author vents the fruitless moan. 826\\nLine 826 This melancholy truth has been attested\\nto me by many instances and I may safely assert that\\nit is to such conduct the present poverty of dramatic\\ngenius is almost entirely owing. The negligence with\\nwhich every production of this sort was treated, by the\\nmanager alluded to, has become proverbial. O if it\\nhas got into Mr. S s hands, it will never get out of them,\\nevery player will tell you with a smile. There is some-\\nthing more than a blamable indolence, there is cruelty\\nand injustice, in this conduct. Many a young dramatic\\nauthor, whose genius would have given pleasure to the\\npublic, and brought profit to the theatre, has by this\\nmeans been crushed, and too much dispirited ever to\\nresume his labours. A man who, through the mere\\nlove of ease and dissipation, can act in this manner,\\nmay be a man of taste and genius, but he certainly\\nwants some better qualities,\\nT3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "210 EPICS OF THE TON\\nTwas thus, unhappy Tobin, sunk thy heart,\\nWith genius gifted, and the poet s art\\nThy golden scenes neglected like thyself,\\nWere left to moulder on the umpire s shelf; 830\\nNo praise bestow d of all so justly due,\\nNo path vouchsafed to lead thee forth to view\\nTill Nature, faint,, with wounded Genius fell,\\nAnd waked a patron by the funeral knell\\nThen came rewards, to thee no longer came, 835\\nAnd fruitless honours shower d around thy name.\\nLine 836.] The fate of poor Tobin, although his\\ncase was by no means singular, will he a lasting stain on\\nthe present management of our theatres, particularly\\nthat theatre to which his plays were offered. He could\\nnot even succeed in getting his pieces once read by the\\nonly person, belonging to the theatre, who was capable\\nof perceiving their merits. He died at an early age,\\nunder all the depression of poverty and disappointment.\\nThe discovery which some persons made, that his pieces\\nmight be profitable to the theatre, at length procured\\nthe representation of two of them but a third, the\\nmost interesting of all, was kept back from a paltry ap-\\nprehension that it might not be acceptable to a female\\nfriend of the m- r What scandalous trifling with\\ngenius, both alive and dead A jovial dinner with the\\nplayers will never prove this man a friend of the drama", "height": "3184", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 211\\nTigellius is not cruel, harsh, unkind,\\nTo blast young genius never once design d j\\nIn mere good wishes will he yield to none,\\nAnd only fails when something s to be done. 840\\nNay, sometimes roused, he has been known to aid,\\nWith active zeal, a brilliant masquerade;\\nTo puff a Christmas shew into renown,\\nOr play a Roscius off upon the town\\nBut great occasions only call him forth, 845\\nNot common things, like young unfriended worth.\\nBut night draws on, and darkness hastes to hide\\nUnfruitful talents, genius misapplied\\nLine 844.] No one in the secret expected that the\\nhoax would take to the degree it did. JBut the scheme\\nwas laid with too deep knowledge of a London audience\\nto fail. All the newspapers were engaged expectation\\nwas on the tiptoe Fox and Pitt were both to see the\\nphenomenon in one night The contrivance was admi-\\nrable, and the success was accordingly. But the most\\nremarkable circumstance was to see the knowing ones\\nnext winter taken in. Could it be expected that the\\nhoax should not have been found out in a whole twelve-\\nmonth What calculations are made on the stupidity of\\nmankind O caeci homines", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "212 EPICS OP THE TON\\nFame without reverence age without respect,\\nDoom d to regret, and sinking to neglect. 850\\nDoom d, after years mispent, to make a show,\\nAnd catch the multitude however low,\\nTo feel the want of power e en mobs to move,\\nAnd, at the Hustings, purgatory prove\\nEnraged, indignant, fill d with grief and spleen,\\nHe closes, wretched close the heartless scene. 856\\nL M\\nWhile we, my Muse, together ply our art,\\nThou must be honest, or we haste to part\\nFrom truth, though bold and rude, thou ne er must\\nswerve,\\nNor sing their praises, who no praise deserve. 860\\nLine S5k] Nothing can be a more cruel disappoint-\\nment than for a man, who has devoted his life (I mean\\nas far as the love of ease and pleasure would allow him),\\nto court popularity, at length to come forward, in full\\nconfidence, to harangue a great popular assembly, and\\ninstead of applauses, find himself received with hisses\\nand hootings. The poet here calls them purgatory\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -he\\nmight have given them a worse name.", "height": "3192", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "THE MALE EOOK. 213\\nNot for a pension, not a post to win,\\nWhere most secure my pilfering hands might sin,\\nWould I to placemen prostitute my pen,\\nWho, rogues in heart, would seem like honest men\\nPerhaps to some old knave, who power to gain, 865\\nThought vice no shame, and infamy no stain j\\nWho, to his patron, courteous left his bed,\\nAnd, by great interest, thought a wife well paid\\nWith conscience suited to the varying time,\\nWho held no art, that served his ends, a crime :870\\nWho stoop d to flatter those whom least he prized,\\nAnd fawning courted whom he most despised\\nWho on his belly crept, till once in power,\\nAnd then could frown, could threaten, and devour-;\\nWho promised much, but little meant to keep, 875\\nAnd opiates knew to lull all fools asleep\\nWho smoothed all parties, every friend caress d,\\nAnd, those who served his purpose, loved the best\\nLine 868.] Sed jussa coram non sine concio\\nSurgit marito, seu vocat institor,\\nDedecorum pretiosus emptor.\\nHorace*", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "214 EPICS OF THE TON\\nWho look d on freedom as a tool for knaves,\\nAnd for the people cared as useful slaves 880\\nWho well, by treasury light, in darkness groped,\\nAnd gave, with bounty large, where much he hoped\\nWhile fools were after public interest flown,\\nOne leading interest still pursued his own\\nWho, cool and fearless, plunged through thick and\\nthin, 885\\nNor ever startled, while he could keep in\\nAnd bravely spurn d the spirit of the laws,\\nYet still could plead the letter, or the flaws\\nLine 880.] Liberty has, of late years, been made so\\ncommon a stalking horse for all sorts of villainy, that\\nthe name has become as odious to many good men, as\\nthe substance formerly was to such patriots as are here\\ndescribed. Nothing could be a more desired consumma-\\ntion for the latter. They have no longer any reason to\\nbe startled at that ancient bug-bear the rights of the\\npeople for who will venture to own himself the advo-\\ncate of what is known by so hateful an appellation\\nLine 888.] These loop-holes are admirable provisions\\nfor saving our men of spirit and prudence from the mer-\\nciless claws of justice. It might be suspected, that our\\nlegislators, tempering justice with mercy, had this re-", "height": "3192", "width": "1816", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 215\\nWho valuing virtue just at what twould bring,\\nThought private honour a superfluous thing 890\\nDefied all sacred Lies, through very lust,\\nThe parent s shame, and friendship s sacred trust\\nlief in view, by the manner in which our statutes are\\ndrawn up. It is a question whether two men in the\\nHouse, besides the mover, are actually aware of all the\\nclauses which the bill contains and as the wording of\\nit is committed to some secondary persons, it is ten to\\none if the mover himself recognises distinctly the work\\nof his own hands, when it appears in print. Hence acts\\nare sometimes produced whose import no sagacity can\\nexplain, whose incongruities no ingenuity can reconcile.\\nHence the patron of an act, who introduced and con-\\nducted it through all its stages, is sometimes astonished\\nto discover in it, clauses which have crept in, God\\nknows how, and which are very different from his in-\\ntentions. Thus Mr. Windham was obliged, at the Nor-\\nfolk hustings, to acknowledge that his military bill,\\nwhich he had spent so much time in preparing, actually\\ncontained a very important provision, which he did not\\nknow that it contained. But if this extraordinary in-\\nstance of public neglect tends to introduce insurmount-\\nable perplexity and obscurity into our laws, we may,\\nhowever, comfort ourselves that it exalts the mercy of\\nthe nation, by the inexhaustible loop-holes it provides for\\nmalefactors.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "216 EPICS OF THE TON;\\nMade the lost matron every sting to feel,\\nAnd scoff d at heaven; and unavenging steel;\\nWith nameless offspring fill d the red parades, 895\\nAnd match d king Solomon in waiting-maids\\nHis veins replenish d with the grape s rich juice,\\nTill twice two bottles came a thing of use\\nWho, fond of shew and cost, his treasures pour d,\\nAnd had at least the virtue not to hoard 900\\nTill age came griping, and his blood grew cold,\\nAnd Avarice whisper d of the charms of gold\\nThen, on the nation s vitals grasping fast,\\nHe proved a sordid miser at the last.\\nLine 89+.] Avenging steel. Dram, passim. There\\nis something in this word of a magical and mystical na-\\nture, as was, a century ago, observed by the author of a\\nKey to the Lock. There is occasionally a word, a\\nmere monosyllable, which, though harmless and inno-\\ncent in itself, becomes, from certain associations, a very\\nspectre to the imagination, and cruelly adheres to it, in\\nspite of every effort to shake it off. Even this little puny\\nword steel might, by some such association, become in-\\nsufferable and a man might be so deeply touched with\\nit, that one might say, Steel broke his heart. But let the\\nthought pass. There is a just day of reckoning, when\\nevery thing hid shall be revealed", "height": "3188", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 217\\nFar other deeds, my muse, shall swell thy lays,\\nTo M 1 e s worth, a well-earn d epic raise; 906\\nWho, famed for merit, bonour d for his years,\\nYet young and fresh in Britain s love appears.\\nStill true to conscienre, still religion s friend,\\nThese blest allies uphold him to the end 9 10\\nTo crown his age, more brilliant laurels bring,\\nThe great defender of the church and king\\nLine 904.] The concluding trait of the fictitious\\ncharacter, which the poet has here drawn, may appear\\ninconsistent with those which precede. But such changes\\nof disposition do occur in human nature and the con-\\nfirmed libertine and prodigal have been known, at sixty,\\nnay at seventy, to begin to gather up the remains of\\ntheir constitution and their fortune.\\nLine 9 10.] Nothing can be a stronger testimony that\\ntemporal retribution often does take place, and that suc-\\ncess is no small proof of virtue, than the honours which\\nseem, in old age, to await the man, who has through\\nlife been distinguished for his piety and disinterested\\nloyalty. He is now to be considered as the bulwark of\\nthe church and crown j and we shall, no doubt, speedily\\nsee him raised to the exaltation he deserves, and rjieeted\\nwith numerous addresses from all well-disposed persons\\nin the kingdom.\\nU", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "218 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nHail spotless honour patriot without fault\\nBelied, how basely, by a son of malt\\nThou, with th experienced statesman s fearless front,\\nDidst scorn for pence and farthings to account ;9 16\\nDidst, by thy well-known faith and truth, abide,\\nAnd spurn d the clamorous herd with proper pride.\\nThy noble peers, men honour d by their king,\\nMen never led by minister in string, 920\\nMen never awed by fear, by favour moved,\\nDeclared thee guiltless of a tale unproved.\\nWith fame all pure, white-washed by titled hands,\\nArise again, and shine in high commands\\nSee Patronage to thee her arms extends, g25\\nAnd on thy footsteps hang a thousand friends.\\nLine \u00c2\u00a3)l6\\\\] Pence and farthings appear to be here\\nsubstituted for ten thousand pounds but the difference\\nbetween them is scarcely perceptible in the present great\\nscale of our national disbursements. The demand for\\nan account of this paltry sum was mean and imperti-\\nnent the answer was dignified and worthy of the\\nspeaker that he would give no account of it.\\nLine 910.] What shall be done unto the man whom\\nthe king honours Esther.", "height": "3196", "width": "1708", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 21 9\\nBehold thy native Scotia hastes to meet,\\nAnd strew her trophies at thy honour d feet\\nThat generous land, where self is quite forgot,\\nAnd none, for interest, every framed a plot 930\\nWhose sons, to serve thee, felt the purest glow,\\nNor recollected what thou couldst bestow\\nNor, for their voices, touch tl official whets,\\nNor thought of India, writers, and cadets\\nLine 930.] The character of Sir Pertinax Mac Syco-\\nphant is evidently a base caricature, intended to traduce\\na people famed for liberality and disinterestedness. Who\\ncould have been the prototype of Sir Pertinax\\nLine 933.] Official whets seem to indicate a mere\\ntasting of the good things, which only serves to sharpen\\nthe appetite, and to increase the desire of the dainties.\\nLine 934.] Snug little things for the son of a free-\\nholder of some influence. It is certain that these sort\\nof things are unknown or despised in Scotland, as you\\nmay learn on entering the first street in Calcutta, where\\nit is ten to one but the first Hindostanee you hear is\\nbroad Scotch. The young expectants of that nation\\nswarm on the shores of the Ganges like so many\\njackalls\\nMillia qnot magnis numquam venere Mycenis.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "220 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThat pious land, where saints affect their kind, 935\\nAnd find thy saintly virtues to their mind\\nHer willing votes shall now adorn thy train,\\nThe lowly pages of thy latter reign\\nThe sixteen peers, changed S k at their head,\\nBy thee in triumph to St. Stephen s led 940\\nLine \u00c2\u00a3)36\\\\] The Scottish nation are so eminently at-\\ntached to the moral and religious virtues, that no man,\\nof whatever station, is honoured among them, whose\\npiety and morality are not irreproachable. From this\\nl ircumstance alone, we might consider it as indisputable\\nthat these virtues reside in the highest degree, in the\\ntatesman who is honoured with their favour. Whore-\\nmongers, adulterers, drunkards, liars, are perpetually\\ndeclaimed against from their pulpits, and spoken of with\\nabhorrence in their private societies. The statesman,\\ntherefore, whom they receive with unbounded acclama-\\ntions, and who passes through their country in triumph,\\nadmired and caressed by all ranks and ages, must, of\\ncourse, be entirely free from even a suspicion of the\\nvices which they seem most to detest. We may there-\\nfore pronounce him to be, or\\\\ the testimony of the\\nScottish nation, in all respects,\\nInteger vita; icelerisque purus\\nLine 939-1 A book, to which this young peer s name\\nwas prefixed, gave promise of considerable talents", "height": "3204", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "THE MALE EOOK. 221\\nAnd, forty commoners, thy nod awaiting,\\nThou leav st the five to L d d e and S t n.\\nNo impious acts thy loyal sway should stain,\\nThe fiend-like negro should resume his chain\\nthe accomplishment has yet to come. It was, however,\\na well-timed revenge which he took on his party for\\ntheir neglect, to fall a kicking just as their backs were\\nturned. It is to be hoped that his new friends will be\\nmore politic than to overlook his merits j for they also,\\nin the course of things, may present a kicking oppor-\\ntunity.\\nLine 944-.] The author has here allowed his imagi-\\nnation to outrun the reality. The negro has not his\\nchain to resume, for it is not yet shaken off. The im-\\nportation only has been prohibited and fortunately this\\ndestructive measure has as yet produced no harm. It\\ncannot be doubted that speedy measures will be taken to\\nprevent its baneful tendency. Should there not, the\\ndreadful effects will soon appear the West India colo-\\nnies will be left desolate the negroes, who might have\\nbeen saved by purchase, v/ill be slaughtered in thousands\\non their own shores a terrible judgment will overtake\\nthose who impiously annihilate the eternal distinction,\\nwhich the Almighty has established between white men\\nand negroes and the curse of Ham will be extended\\nover the whole human race\\nu 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nNo mad reformer then for dreams should fight, 9-45\\nBut learn to own whatever is is right\\nNor fierce Inquiry, with its senseless pother,\\nOne corner search, and slily pass another\\nLine H6\\\\] I believe the question of Parliamentary\\nReform, which kept the mob in a roar for half a century,\\nis now pretty well laid to rest. That the object is un-\\nattainable has been as clearly demonstrated, as that\\nthose who seemed most to pursue it wished for nothing\\nso little as to be successful. While out of power, in-\\ndeed, all parties, with Pitt and Fox at their head, were\\nequally eager in pressing this measure but which of\\nthem, when in, ever stirred a foot in the affair. Pitt, it\\nis true, did avow that his sentiments continued the same\\nbut the unhappy Premier was left in a minority, and the\\nmeasure was afterwards found to be totally inconsistent\\nwith existing circumstances. What should the members\\nof the House of Commons have to do in altering the\\npresent state of the elective franchise Would not the\\nman be accounted crazy, who should break down his\\ninclosures, and throw open his fields and orchards to\\nevery man and beast who travelled the way\\nLine 948.] The public are sadly mistaken if they\\never expect any good from these same Commissions of\\nInquiry. Who will ever read the voluminous reports of\\nthe Naval Commissioners Or, if he does read them,", "height": "3192", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 223\\nAll other commerce Britain s fleets should blast,\\nAnd rear the broom conspicuous at the mast 950\\nOn solitary seas, her flags unfurl d,\\nShould awe, chastise, and prey upon the world.\\nwho will ever profit by them The hubbub excited\\nabout the transactions in the Tenth Report, is sufficient\\nto show the views, the wisdom, and the probable suc-\\ncess of the whole affair. Ask either the old Navy\\nBoard, or the present Admiralty, what dependence is to\\nbe placed on these reports j and you will learn to what\\npurpose some thousands of the national money have been\\nyearly expended in salaries to Naval Commissioners.\\nWhat set of Commissioners ever brought to light the\\nabuses of their own party\\nLine 952.] The relaxation of the Navigation Act is\\na crime so enormous against the prosperity of our coun-\\ntry, that it will be disgraceful lenity if the advisers of\\nsuch a measure escape condign punishment. What can\\nbe more evident than that Great Britain must grow\\npoor,- if her neighbours grow rich than that she must\\nbe idle, if the others be industrious Is it not plain that\\nif a farmer suffers his neighbour s fences to grow, and\\ndoes not take timely measures to destroy them, they\\nmay soon overtop and eclipse his own Is it not equally\\nplain, that if Great Britain allow her neighbours to get\\neommerce and shipping, they may soon have as rich", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "224 EPICS OF THE TON\\nNew coalitions then should send afar,\\nTheir well-paid shouts, and give the hopes of War\\nThe conquer d states feel restive in the chain, 955\\nAnd Bonaparte require a new campaign.\\nand numerous fleets on the ocean as herself? Deceitful\\ncounsels Ruinous moderation When the other mari-\\ntime nations shall become industrious and rich, possessed\\nof an active commerce and numerous ships, then, Bri-\\ntain, thy glory has reached its close But let us trample\\non such bloodless, such timid, and unpatriotic sugges-\\ntions. Let us guard, with tenfold care, those Naviga-\\ntion laws by which we have flourished Let us burn,\\nsink, and destroy the vessels of every power which pre-\\nsumes to encroach upon our exclusive rights Let us\\nprevent the accumulation of capital, the excitement of\\nenterprise, the increase of shipping, in the maritime\\ntowns of all other nations While we persevere in this\\nsystem,, what power shall cope with us What enemy\\nshall contest the empire of the seas Every shore shall\\nbe within the dominion of Britain, and ages unborn\\nshall hail her as the sovereign of the ocean.\\nLine 956-1 The incalculable advantages, which this\\ncountry has derived from continental coalitions, prove\\nthe criminal blindness of those who have disgusted our\\nallies by refusing them subsidies corresponding with\\ntheir demands. From some hints which have been", "height": "3192", "width": "1788", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 225\\nBut, far o er all things prized, sublime and pure,\\nThe royal conscience then should reign secure\\nThe hopeless papist through a length of years,\\nShould still atone his Church s crimes with tears\\nShould taxes pay, by insult reimbursed, 96 1\\nShould fight unhonour d, and should fall accurs d\\nWhile, fenced around, like Britain s sea-girt shore,\\nThat church divine which all the good adore, 96-I\\nThat church where, only, men for heaven are bred,\\nShould bless its son, and raise its tow ring head.\\nGo on, great chief! thy destinies pursue,\\nStill, to the last, thy life s great ends in view\\nThy public virtues with thy private pair,\\nOur rights and morals still thine equal care. 970\\nAround thy name th unfading wreathe shall blow,\\nAnd deathless fame the wond ring muse bestow\\nthrown out, it is abundantly plain that this absurd policy\\nwill undergo a speedy amelioration. New and vast coa-\\nlitions will be formed and precipitated against the com-\\nmon foe of mankind. Bonaparte may look to himself:\\nit will cost him another campaign.\\nLine 966. Its son What church can the poet mean", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON:\\nThy hope fulfill d, to live in history s page,\\nAnd give a lesson to a future age\\nThy deeds more coolly weigh d, more clearly known.\\nBy patriot sires shall to their sons be shown 976\\nThen shalt thou gain, when no false hues pervert,\\nThe reputation due to thy desert.\\nL E\\nWhen Rome, for virtue once renown d, became\\nRenown d for crimes, for deeds of lasting shame\\nWhen Freedom spread her golden lures in vain, 981\\nAnd left a recreant race to hug the chain\\nWhen vice, at noon-day, rear d the head on high,\\nAnd mock d the tardy vengeance of the sky\\nPure and unstain d, amidst a guilty land, 985\\nThe law s great chiefs were seen sublime to stand\\nLine 973.] It is said that this venerable statesman has\\nalways entertained a fond expectation of making a con-\\nspicuous figure in the page of history. His hopes will\\nnot be disappointed. When the annals of Britain for\\nthe last twenty years are recorded, he certainly will not\\nbe forgotten.\\nLine 9S6\\\\] This fact, so honourable to the profession", "height": "3200", "width": "1708", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 227\\nO er prostrate virtue spread their awful shield,\\nAnd gainst corruption still maintain d the field.\\nThus while the victor every land subdued,\\nProud, o er his power, indignant Cato stood 990\\nSaw Ctesar s arms an abject world controul,\\nAnd fix d the throne of freedom in his soul.\\nThus, while around the base of Andes, rage\\nThe torrents vast, and warring winds engage\\nWhile fell tornadoes hold their tyrant reign, 995\\nAnd sudden ruin desolates the plain\\nStill, all unmoved, the tranquil summits show\\nTheir spotless garments of eternal snow\\nLike nature s vast foundations fix d they seem,\\nNor feel the wint ry wind, or summer s beam. 1000\\nof the law, has attracted the peculiar observations of the\\nhistorian. After the monarchs of Rome were degene-\\nrated into monsters of cruelty and profligacy after the\\nnobles were sunk into the grossest debauchery after\\nthe priesthood were distinguished only by a remains of\\nsuperstition after the people were the most abject and\\nprofligate of slaves j still the tribunals were occupied by\\nmen who might have graced a better age. Even in the\\ndays of Justinian and Theodora, the lawyers of Con-\\nKtantinople might have honoured the republic of Rome.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "228 EPICS OF THE TON*.\\nAnd thus, while here Corruption easts a gloom,\\nThe fate of Britain like the fate of Rome\\nWhile titled Vice triumphant rears the head,\\nAnd Avarice thrives, and lust defiles the bed\\nOur law s great guardians still their fame maintain,\\nWithout suspicion as without a stain. 1006\\nNo paltry bribes, Dishonour s sordid spoil,\\nPervert their judgments, and their hands defile\\nFor rights invaded, when redress is sought,\\nThe injur d finds not that the judge is bought 1010\\nFor crimes no base impunities are sold,\\nNo villain feels protected by his gold\\nAnd while our annals every vice describe,\\nThis age shall own no judge who took a bribe.\\nLine 1014-.] The corruption of judges, by bribes from\\nthe parties who come before them, is a thing, so un-\\nknown in our age, that the suspicion of it never enters\\ninto the head of the most suspicious. Yet two hundred\\nyears have not passed, since eminent men were degraded\\nfrom the highest stations in the law for this mean and\\ninfamous vice. Here is certainly an amelioration, of\\nwhich it would be an agreeable task to develope the\\ncauses But the length of a note dees not permit a full", "height": "3196", "width": "1708", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 229\\nBlest is the land, whose judges thus preside, 1015\\nPure as Golconda s gems, or gold thrice-tried\\nWhom solid learning from false views protects,\\nWhom justice guides, and wisdom still directs\\nFor worth selected and for knowledge famed,\\nNor moved by passion, nor by party claim d; 10-20\\nWho scorn all arts which Virtue holds unmeet,\\nNor rise by faction to the judgment seat;\\nTo every party equal favour own,\\nAnd view alike the subject and the throne;\\nNor rank or power permit to blind their sight, 1025\\nNor heed a star unless the star of right\\nNo bias to the court or people feel,\\nBut, just to all, an equal measure deal.\\nThrice honour d is the judge, whose mind serene\\nLooks calm and solemn on the passing scene; 1030\\nWho, all for justice, spurns at meaner things,\\nThe shouts of mobs, or flattering smiles of kings\\nWho, cool and firm, the law s behest conveys,\\nNor, on the bench, one passion e er betrays\\ninquiry into a subject, which it would be improper to\\ndeface by a mutilated discussion.\\nX", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "230 EPICS OF THE TON\\nUntouch d by hope, and never moved by fear, 1035\\nEschew d by faction, to the nation dear,\\nThe bad respect him, and the good revere.\\nWhile Britain s upright judges swell the lays,\\nLet Britain s king participate the praise\\nWho, from his crown, a brilliant greatly tore, 10J0\\nAnd gave his people what his fathers wore\\nBade the undaunted judge his tenor hold,\\nAnd justice pass her sentence uncontroul d.\\nLine 1043.] It was an instance of patriotism in a\\nking, never to be forgotten, when his present majesty,\\nat his accession, renounced for himself and his succes-\\nsors for ever, the power of displacing the judges at the\\ncommencement of a new reign. Such a voluntary sa-\\ncrifice of a prerogative, however unprofitable to the\\npossessor, has rarely been made by the most virtuous\\nsovereigns. While the judges of the common law are,\\nby this last concession, rendered wholly independent of\\nthe fluctuation of political parties, it must be a matter\\nof wonder and regret, that the supreme judge in equity,\\nwho in many instances controuls all the others, should\\nhold his office entirely by the precarious tenure of party.\\nIf the independence of judges be a benefit, this is an evil\\nof the first magnitude. If it be allowed that the vane-\\ngated duties of the Lord Chancellor are more than any", "height": "3188", "width": "1780", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 231\\nHence, by his people s love, of mightier sway,\\nHe gains in power by what he gave away: 1045\\nSo, the glad hind, when past his furrowing toil,\\nBestows his golden treasures on the soil\\nSo the rich harvest, which around him- pours,\\nRepays, an hundred fold, his lavish d stores.\\nWhile thus to independence proudly raised, 1050\\nO may no wayward end, no wish debased,\\nE er tempt our laws great guardians to forego\\nThe noblest boon which freedom can bestow.\\nO may they ne er, by false ambition led,\\nCabals enkindle, or a faction wed 1055\\none man can fulfil, why then delay to remedy at once\\nso many evils, by simply separating his functions Let\\nthe patronage and the political station be attached to\\nthe speaker of the House of Lords, and let his office be\\nan ample boon for the active partizans of each successful\\nfaction. Bat let the supreme judge of our courts of\\nequity be fixed in his station for life. Let him enjoy\\nthat full independence which is given to every other\\niudge let no avocation, but the complicated business\\nof that function, occupy his mind Let neither hope nor\\nfear distract his attention, or hold out even the slightest\\ntemptation to swerve from the plain line of his duty,\\nx 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "232 EPICS OF THE TON\\nFrom thirst of power, their station s boast forsake^\\nAnd with a party s hopes and terrors shake\\nTo little plots, and court-intrigues descend,\\nAnd, with th obsequious council, humbly bend\\nSell reputation for a crumb of power, 1060\\nAnd years of honour for a courtly hour\\nBe sworn the special servants of the throne,\\nNor more th impartial umpire s title own\\nShould king and people for some right contend,\\nThe people s foe be held, the monarch s -friend; 1065\\nFrom strong debates, in every passion s heat,\\nConfused and troubled mount the judgment seat\\nWhile anxious suitors view the scene with awe,\\nAnd wish mad politics disjoin d from law.\\nMost in the judge, true dignity requires 1070\\nConsistent views, and well-controul d desires\\nLine IO69.] It is to be lamented that they have not\\nalways been disjoined, and that any precedent to the\\ncontrary should be found in our history. That the\\njudge should be entirely independent both of the crown\\nand the people, that he should be agitated, in the exer-\\ncise of his office, by no motives of hope or fear, is al-\\nlowed to be essential to the pure administration of jus-", "height": "3192", "width": "1800", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nEach devious course that might suspicion breed,\\nAnd even the semblance shun d, of erring deed.\\ntice. Our laws, as they have been ameliorated in his\\npresent Majesty s reign, have made complete provision\\nfor securing this inestimable benefit to the nation, in re-\\ngard to the judges of the common law. It is to be la-\\nmented that private views should ever so far interfere\\nwith the public good, as to render this provision nuga-\\ntory. It is to be lamented that any judge should ever\\nenlist himself under the banners of party, or contract a\\ndependence on the crown and its ministers. It is not\\nmerely in the causes in which the king and the subject\\nare directly engaged, that such a connection as this may\\nproduce a dangerous bias in his judgment his party,\\nthe members of the administration with whom he acts,\\nmay have their private quarrels with the subject they\\nmay have been galled by animadversions, and may pro-\\nsecute for libel. On such an occasion, who would not\\ntremble to ccme before a tribunal where a partizan pre-\\nsided Perhaps, indeed, his conscience, his honour,\\nmight overpower every improper suggestion even in such\\ntrying contingencies but no purity could free him from\\nsuspicion: and it is necessary that a judge, like a virgin,\\nshould avoid even to be suspected. But why leave a cir-\\ncumstance of such vast importance at the mercy of indi.,\\nvidual ambition Why not provide, by positive statute,\\nthat no judge shall hold any ostensible relation to the crown\\nX 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "234 EPICS OF THE TON\\nSedate, impartial, still-collected, cool,\\nAmbitious only o er himself to rule; 1075\\nJoin d to no faction; midst the loyal found;\\nYet nothing more to king than people bound\\nAverse alike to lord it, or to drudge,\\nThe judge s noblest office is to judge.\\nL R\\nOn nose of pig, how odd the diamond ring, 1080\\nHow odd on Harlequin, the crest of king;\\nStrange smart bandeau on wrinkled front appears,\\nStrange flush sixteen conjoin d to sixty years\\nIt may be said that this would restrict the sovereign in the\\nchoice of his servants True but then it would only\\nprevent him from employing those whom he ought not\\nto employ,-those whom his own welfare and the welfare of\\nhis people require to be strictly debarred from any pecu-\\nliar connection with his service. The office of a judge\\nin our courts of law is no sinecure. His duties, if pro-\\nperly discharged, are sufficient to occupy the whole at-\\ntention of any one man. If he is also to be involved in\\nthe complicated discussion of the important topics which\\ncontinually press upon the attention of our ministers,,\\nsome duty must necessarily be left undischarged.", "height": "3188", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 235\\nYet not more strange, more odd than this accord,\\nMy Lady she, and he sweet heavens my Lord.\\nWere titles used to set the stamp on worth, 1086\\nNot given to knaves, to fools, to gold, or birth\\nThen might the peer our willing homage claim,\\nAnd stars be held certificates of fame.\\nStill as the chariot pass d the streets along, 1090\\nCaught by its coronet, the crowds would throng\\nAssured to find one mark d for public care,\\nA Wolfe, a Chatham, or a Nelson there.\\nBut when the star, a hundred times to one,\\nSeems on its wond rous wearer placed through fun\\nA thing, by dext rous valet, made a beau, 1096\\nWithin a vacuum, and without a show\\nOr rake, in body worn, in mind a drivel,\\nBy leading silly women to the devil\\nLine 1096*.] When some one reproached Buchanan\\nthat he had made nothing of his royal pupil, King\\nJames, but a mere pedant, the preceptor phlegmatically\\nreplied, it was a wonder he had made so much of\\nhim. The same reply might be justly uttered by many\\na valet who has trimmed out his titled master into an in-\\nordinate fop.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "236 EPICS OF THE TON\\nOr jockey, both in outside, and in heart, 1100\\nWho, in the stable, acts his proper part\\nOr bully gamester, careless of his heirs,\\nWho all, twixt pharo and the brothel, shares:\\nLine 10.QQ.] It is a curious remark that Fielding,\\nwherever he introduces a lord into his novels, always\\nmakes him noted for this particular species of dissipation.\\nFielding is allowed to have understood human nature.\\nWhen men have attained all the objects of ambition,\\nwithout any exertion on their part, it is natural enough\\nfor them to set about gratifying, in the fullest manner,\\nthose uneasy appetites which still refuse to let them rest.\\nLine 1101.] It has now become a matter of fashion\\nto render the peer as indistinguishable from the coach-\\nman as possible. They wear the same dress, swear the\\nsame oaths, are often seen in the stable and on the\\ncoach-box together and, in short, are, to all appear-\\nance, exactly of the same fraternity. Nay, the coach-\\nman is frequently seen to occupy the place of my lord\\nin the curricle, by the side of my lady and, in truth,\\nis at times not the least proper man of the two. It was\\nobserved, by a celebrated Scottish Philosopher, that, in a\\nfew centuries, the progeny of the man in the chariot, and\\nof the man on the coach-box, change places. The present\\ncustoms will probably render the rotation frequently\\nmuch more speedy.", "height": "3200", "width": "1836", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 237\\nOr cit ambitious, who, by Madam fired,\\nFrom Lombard -street to western spheres retired: 1105\\nGave sumptuous dinners, and the best of wine,\\nAnd lords and ladies got in crowds to dine\\nThrew ancient great ones quite into the shade,\\nAnd fill d the papers with a masquerade\\nTurn d glum vice-hunters to a public jest, 1 1 10\\nAnd had the honour of a royal guest\\nLine 1 108.] This is a terrible and daily increasing\\nhardship. The monied aristocracy is continually gaining\\nground upon the aristocracy of birth the sons of sugar\\nbarrels and rum puncheons, on the sons of steel caps\\nand lacquer d doublets. The case of the sufferers by\\nthis intolerable grievance is truly distressing, for their\\nadversaries have acquired such a footing in the parlia-\\nment itself, that they have little reason to expect an act\\nfor their relief.\\nLine 1110.] My readers will recollect an attempt at\\na great fashionable party, to turn those narrow-minded\\nzealots, those enemies of every thing gay and gallant,\\nthe Society for the Suppression of Vice, into open ridi-\\ncule. At the same time it was in contemplation to\\ntravesty the coronation of Bonaparte. This was taking\\nthe appropriate revenge on two objects of terror. It is\\nusual for persons of a certain character to take every op-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "238 EPICS OF THE TON\\nWith endless banquets, mighty interest caught,\\nAnd thus, full-arm d, the Premier s favour sought\\nThe languid Premier, sick and much perplex d,\\nSome mirth required to ease a spirit vex d, 1115\\nResolv d, with one loud laugh, his ills to chear,\\nRefreshed his lungs, and made the cit a Peer\\nportunify, when they safely can, of attempting to con-\\nceal their fears by ridiculing those objects which most\\nexcite them. With what satisfaction does an atheist\\ndisburthen himself among a stubborn club of free-\\nthinkers\\nLine 11 17-] Pitt was a Commoner, the son of the\\nGreat Commoner I never could find reason to think\\nthat he had any desire to exalt the peerage. He came\\ninto power in direct opposition to the great aristocracy,\\nnor did they ever rank among his adherents. The houses,\\nmost distinguished for their antiquity and grandeur\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthose of Howard, Percy, Cavendish, and Russell, stood\\nforth among his firm and constant antagonists, ft does\\nnot seem improbable that he was sufficiently willing to\\nmortify those whom he could not reconcile and to show\\nhis superiority to titles, by the lavish hand with which\\nhe strewed them among persons who had little claim to\\nthem but his favour. The extension of exclusive privi-\\nleges, by his numerous creations, was well calculated to", "height": "3192", "width": "1796", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 239\\nSay, shall we kneel to titles thus bestow d,\\nAnd, like th Egyptians, hail the calf a god\\nWith toads, asps, onions, ornament the shrine, 1 120\\nAnd reptiles own, and pot-herbs, things divine\\nYet, though we join the laugh, or fume with\\nspleen\\nWhen once two hundred years have roll d between,\\nWhen filtering ages shall the blood refine,\\nAnd time enrich the juices, like old wine 1125\\nEven such a baron s sons shall boast aloud,\\nWhat ancient honours raise them o er the crowd\\nmake the distinctions of little account, and to bring\\npeers and commoners to a level. Nor does he appear to\\nhave ever repented of this policy, if we may judge from\\nthe peers, whom he left, at his departure, in embryo.\\nLine 1121.] The Egyptians carried their whimsical\\nsuperstitions farther than any other nation. Their prin-\\ncipal god, Apis, was adored in the likeness of a calf j\\nand even certain reptiles and vegetables ranked among\\ntheir objects of worship. The poet seems to have great\\nobjections to the rites of the Egyptians, and would\\ntherefore probably have no inclination to join the colony\\nwhich we are about to send to that country.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "240 EPICS OF THE TON\\nTheir clustering lineage on a tree display,\\nAnd look contempt on creatures of a day 5\\nShall hire skill d heralds to adorn their line, 1130\\nAnd, for their mighty founder, virtues coin\\nPerhaps the merchant to the camp translate,\\nOr make him shine the leader of the state\\nTo prove his worth, a jest-won title bring,\\nAnd dub him hence the favourite of his king 1 133\\nSince he and Nelson bore an equal name,\\nHold he and Nelson were alike in fame\\nLine 1 131.] A most usual practice. Vide any Peer-\\nage or family pedigree.\\nLine 1137.] The conclusion is not unnatural, and by\\nno means seems to justify the indignation with which\\nthe poet treats it. If men receive equal rewards, it\\nagrees with our natural sense of justice to suppose that\\ntheir merits were nearly upon a level. When two per-\\nsons receive the title of Baron, a distinction much\\nvalued, can there be any thing extravagant in imagining\\nthat their deserts, if not of the same nature, were at\\nleast nearly of the same magnitude Here, I maintain,\\nthere is nothing absurd in theory but, indeed, if the\\npoet should press me to particular instances, and urge\\nme to observe the comparative merits of Baron Nelson", "height": "3156", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 241\\nO had my name indeed superior shone,\\nWith titles graced by merit fairly won,\\nHow should my soul revolt from such allies 1140\\nHow such compeers my swelling heart despise\\nHow should I rave, the period to foresee,\\nWhen rank d with such my name and worth\\nshould be\\nAnd all the persons titled in one year,\\nOf equal merit, equal deeds appear! 1145\\nNo to my grave my title should descend,\\nAnd all my honours, with the winner, end\\nNo scoundrel son should hold them up to scorn,\\nAnd make his country blush to see them worn\\nNo lying herald of a distant age, 1150\\nSome fellow lordling to my side engage,\\nSome rake, some booby, something most despised^\\nAnd hold our deeds and titles equalized\\nBut, mighty baron, cease thine anxious fears,\\nTis but a poet plucks thee by the ears 1 155\\nof the Nile, and I P T I must even\\nallow him to vent himself in his own way.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "242 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThou, at court galas, still a peer shalt trip,\\nAnd still thy lady be her ladyship;\\nStill o er thy house, the coronet be shown,\\nAnd still thy chariot for a lord s be known\\nPoor vulgar satire by the great be scorn d, 1 160\\nAnd men like thee, by titles still adorn d\\nThen pluck up spirit, base plebeians d n,\\nAnd show thyself the Baron R m.\\nof H-\\nHow sweet is mercy in the mighty V breast\\nHow human kindness decks the warrior s crest 1 165\\nHow noble they who might in fields have shone,\\nAnd conquer d many, yet have conquer d none\\nThen be those chiefs renovvn d, unknown to roam,\\nWho gild the gay parade, and shine at home\\nWho martial etiquette supremely know, 11 70\\nAnd fit their soldiers for a gallant show.\\nNo scenes they meditate, at which the heart\\nOf soft humanity would shudd ring start\\nStout youths alive embowel d by a bullet,\\nOr stuck on bayonet like spitted pullet 1175", "height": "3180", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 24$\\nFresh limbs dissever d from the bleeding stumps,\\nHeads from the shoulders, bodies from the rumps\\nBones mash d to jelly, fields with corpses spread,\\nAnd dying groans among the heaps of dead\\nThe conflict fierce, where death and fury glow, 1 180\\nOr the drear banquet of the carrion crow\\nSuch scenes, to scare the heart, and stun the head,\\nNe er tempt the gentle chiefs of gay parade.\\nThem, sights more human, guiltless deeds invite,\\nWhen wheeling through Hyde Park their squadrons\\nbright 1 1 85\\nThe long straight front, extending far and wide.\\nWhere no false curves the Serjeant s pains deride\\nThe cap smart-cock d, the well-chalk d belt so\\nclean,\\nThe arms where spot of rust was never seen\\nThe tight-drawn stock, the hair in tasty tie, 11 90\\nHeads dress d, and breasts advanced to meet the eyej\\nThe smart clear wheel, where all, like spokes, go\\nround.\\nNor one behind, behind the rest, is found", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "EPICS OP THE TON\\nThe clever shoulder, and the firm advance,\\nAnd arms presented, with a clap, at once 1 195\\nAtjire! one full round roar to charm the ear,\\nWith no pop, pops, harsh sputtering in the rear:\\nLine 1195.] This is a movement on which more\\ntime is spent by the drill-serjeant than on nearly all the\\nmovements of priming and loading. I need scarcely add\\nthat it is entirely useless, unless to place the soldiers in\\na showy attitude, when the general makes his appear-\\nance at a Review. I will refer it to any candid military\\nman, whether one half of the time of exercise is not\\nusually devoted to this, and a few other motions, all\\nequally useless in the day of action But I forget the\\nspirit of my author he is praising the discipline of\\nthose soldiers who are fitted for the parade only and,\\nin this point of view, such motions are of course the\\nmost important of all.\\nLine 1197.] This article, of discharging all the mus-\\nkets of a platoon at exactly the same instant, so as that\\nthe whole shall form one full incorporated sound, is an-\\nother circumstance on which infinite pains and time are\\nbestowed. It certainly produces a very delectable im-\\npression on the bye-standers at a review and more\\npowder is annually spent in bringing men to perfection in\\nit, than might contribute in no small degree to furnish\\nthe magazines for a campaign. But I never heard that", "height": "3188", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 245\\nThe columns, like glued figures soak d in starch,\\nOn wire-work strangely moved at sound of march\\nThe furious charge, where thousand foes might fall,\\nAnd the brave rally at the great park wall 1201\\nA cloudless atmosphere and summer s day,\\nTo sport the warriors and attract the gay\\nWhile crowding fair ones, in a brilliant row,\\nWith tender tremors view the martial show, 1205\\nAnd cling more closely to th intrepid beau.\\nIn fields like these, none wounded and none slain,\\nHow pure is war, how pleasant a campaign\\nNor think these bands to bear no hardship made,\\nTo bear great hardships is the soldier s trade. 1210\\nLook at their chins, and say if tis no ill\\nTo hold their necks so straight, so stiff, so still\\nLook at their legs, which knee-high gaiters pinch,\\nTheir tight-screw d thighs, and say wouldst thou\\nnot flinch\\nNow their smart crops the scissars close assail,1215\\nNow their heads labour with a load of tail\\nthis nicety is deemed of the least importance in actual\\nbattle.\\ny 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "240 EPICS OF THE TON t\\nNow, not one hair the close-shaved visage wears,\\nNow vile mustachoes turn the men to bears\\nSmall may those hardships seem to men of blood,.\\nWho daily wade the marsh, or stem the flood\\nWho, all night long, and supperless, must lie 1221\\nBeneath the shroud of a December sky\\nAnd find at morn their hair to earth congeal d,\\nWhen loud alarums wake them for the field\\nBut oft the ills, which men most trivial deem, 1225\\nMore keenly wound than such as mightier seem\\nNor is a bruise, or cancer, worse to bear,\\nThan pease in shoes, or pin upright in chair.\\nThus the tame Sepoy, whose obedient hand\\nOur banners floated o er his native land 1230\\nWho, in our cause, Death s fellest forms could view,\\nAnd brave the scorching sun, and blasting dew\\nWhen forced by some great chief, of skill revered,\\nIn cut unknown to shape his cap and beard,\\nHis darling fashions with cold steel defended, 1285\\nTill trembling wisecap his decrees amended.\\nLine l?3o\\\\] It is to be seen whether those valiant\\nenquirers into abuses, who have held out such magni-", "height": "3196", "width": "1720", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 247\\nNor think our youngling chiefs, by smarter swords\\nAnd ep lets, known for military lords,\\niicent promises to their constituents at the present elec-\\ntions, will endeavour to bring to light the authors of the\\nlate military commotions, which threaten to shake our\\nempire in India to the foundation. We have there large\\nbodies of native troops, who, under European officers,\\nhave fought battles with a bravery scarcely inferior to\\nthe natives of Great Biitain. They have been uniformly\\nobedient and loyal and the only peculiar favour, which\\nthey have claimed, is to be indulged in a few harmless\\ncustoms, which they regard wilh veneration their\\ndress, their food, the fashion of their hair and beards.\\nOne is astonished that persons of common understand-\\ning should wantonly interfere with things so indifferent\\nin themselves, so highly valued by the native troops.\\nBut the thirst of tyrannizing, for the mere purpose of\\ndisplaying one s power, got the better of every consi-\\nderation of wisdom, policy, and humanity. The Sepoys\\nwere doomed to have their dress formed in a particular\\nfashion, and to wear their beards according to orders\\nA mutiny was the consequence the inevitable, the\\nproper consequence of this ridiculous tyranny. It is said\\nto have been subdued, that tranquillity is completely re-\\nstored by abandoning the measure. It may be so but\\na distrust and animosity have been excited in the breasts\\nof the native troops, which will not so soon be eradi-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nAre inexperienced in the feats of war,\\nThough never cradled in Bellona s car.\\ncated. What is still worse, the Sepoys have learnt that\\nour generals may be intimidated, and that a resolute\\nmutiny is the way to attain their objects. I am mistaken\\nif this is not the most fatal blow which our Indian em-\\npire has ever received. Nor is it to be imagined that\\nthis is the first and only act of the same wanton oppres-\\nsion, which has been exercised towards the Sepoys\\nthis was only one which appeared so detestable as to call\\nfor the last resistance, and which attracted peculiar at-\\ntention, from the number of troops collected together at\\nVellore. Many similar orders, so rash and absurd as\\nalmost to exceed belief, have been issued but generally\\nrevoked in time to prevent very notorious consequences.\\nWho could believe that a general officer actually gave\\norders that all the native regiments, in a particular go-\\nvernment, should go to church Yet such orders were\\nissued j and revoked only at the earnest remonstrances\\nof an inferior officer, who represented that the attempt\\nto enforce them would produce immediate rebellion.\\nSuch dreadful blunders proceed, in a great measure,\\nfrom the practice of sending out, to high commands in\\nIndia, officers who are totally unacquainted with the\\ncustoms and feelings of the natives, and who are unable\\nto form any estimate of their prejudices and habits. No\\nofficer, except those bred according to the rules of the", "height": "3192", "width": "1716", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. J4Q\\nAt midnight, oft behold a chosen band\\nEnact great wonders with a mighty hand\\nAppear, in proper garments, fierce Macbeth,\\nAttd hear of crowns from witches on the heath\\nA valiant Julius scorn his wife s mean tears, 1245\\nA Barbarossa blast the foe with fears;\\nA very Rolla shield his honour d king,\\nAnd bear off Cora s child with wond rous swing.\\nYet though of martial lore these schools, confined,\\nTrain but the spirits of a nobler kind 1250\\nThink not the rest untutor d for the field,\\nWhile their brave lessons oft courts-martial yield.\\nHere, train d to frown, to threaten, and command,\\nAnd deal his orders with a sovereign hand,\\nCompany s Service, and who have been stationed many\\nyears in India, are fit to be entrusted with the command\\nof the native troops.\\nLine 1243.] These military theatrical academies have\\nalready called forth some animadversions. They seem\\ncalculated to produce graceful parade officers and what\\nmore is accounted necessary for the perfection of the\\nmilitary character", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "250 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThe bantling chieftain, with ascending eye, 1255\\nConfounds the tall grown man of six feet high j\\nCommands the halberts in a direful tone,\\nAnd bids the drummer bare him to the bone\\nSees, in the welling gore, the lash embrued,\\nAnd grows courageous from the sight of blood.\\nO warriors worthy of a Briton s name! 1261\\nO born to fill the world with deeds of fame\\nE of C-\\nDid Nature second monarchs grand designs,\\nAnd shower her gifts on some peculiar lines\\nShed wit and worth where honours first were shed,\\nAnd save great wisdom for the titled head 1266\\nLine 1 J60.] Sir Robert Wilson, and other military\\nwriters, have so amply disclosed the frequency and con-\\nsequences of these courage-making exhibitions, that any\\nfurther encomium would be unnecessary. Our militia\\nregiments are said to carry this, as well as other parts of\\ndiscipline, to the greatest perfection. In the event of a\\npeace, the disbanded subalterns will find great encou-\\nragement as overseers of West India plantations, being\\nalready thoroughly versed in the whole business of ne-\\ngro-driving.", "height": "3180", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 251\\nThen might the chiefs be found, without debate,\\nWho best could lead our armies, guide the state\\nThen might the Knight to some small post pretend,\\nThe lordly Baron to command ascend 1270\\nThe mightier Viscount to the Earl should bow,\\nThe Earl himself the Marquis claims allow\\nThe Duke almost be fittest for all things,\\nAnd Princes only less adroit than Kings.\\nThen should we mourn no military lord, 1275\\nWith all the soldier center d in his sword\\nNo peer in council, like a horse in pond,\\nWho just can stand and stare, nor pass beyond\\nNor noble poet who, in tragic lays,\\nLaments our want of taste, his want of praise\\nWho, when no actor will attempt his play, 1231\\nNot even on benefits, not even for pay,\\nLine 1282.] It perhaps may not be generally known\\nto noble authors, that when a right honourable play is\\nin distress, from the plebeian taste of the managers, a\\nreserve is still open in the yearly Benefits of the actors.\\nFor a trifling sum, fifty pounds, or the expences of the\\nhouse, an actor may generally be prevailed upon to give\\nit out on his or her benefit. In the theatrical accounts", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "552 EPICS Or THE TON\\nOn hot-press d royal bids the drama glow,\\nWhile margins vast their glossy splendour throw\\nThen to the chosen few the present sends, 1285\\nThe most distinguished of his titled friends\\nWho, while the head grows numb, and conscience\\nakes,\\nMust praise and read it to prevent mistakes.\\nWere Nature not plebeian at the heart,\\nNo titled head should want the thinking part 1290\\nWit, wisdom, courage, with the peerage pass,\\nAnd titles prove specifics for an ass\\nThe royal touch cure dulness, worst of evils,\\nAnd talents pour into the fool that drivels\\nof the newspapers, dramatic debuts of this kind may\\nannually be seen and I could mention a great beau, of\\nBond Street notoriety, who has brought all his comic\\nproductions to light by this mode. If, indeed, the thing\\nbe so wretched that no actor can undertake it, without\\nthe certainty of being hissed on his benefit night, a\\ndisgrace which he will not for his own sake incur I then\\ncan point out no other resource than that mentioned in\\nthe text.\\nLine 1?93.] Every one is acquainted with the power\\nof a monarch s touch, in formerly curing that distem-", "height": "3192", "width": "1804", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK.\\nMake barren polls in every produce rich, 1205\\nWhile men catch genius, as they catch the itch.\\nuhL of Qu\\nIn days of yore, while Rome s old grandeur stood,\\nAnd boars still roam d the Calydonian wood,\\nCelestial groupes in grove and grotto play d,\\nAnd Fawns and Satyrs danced in every shade 1300\\nThe huntress Dryads graced the moon s pale beam,\\nAnd Naiads laved their beauties in the stream\\nThe hearth much honour d, and the fruitful plain,\\nEach grove, each fountain, had its guardian train.\\nThen, by the echoing rock, beneath the tree, 1305\\nWhere forms divine the swain was wont to see.\\nper which is hence denominated the king s evil. One\\nwould imagine, from the nature of the subjects and the\\nextent of the effects, that certain other operations of\\nmonarchs, on select persons, were introduced to cure\\nsimilar distempers of the mind.\\nLine 1303.] The classical reader knows how sacred\\nthe hearth was accounted in ancient times, and how in-\\nviolable the stranger found himself under the protection\\nof the Penates,\\nZ", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "254 EPICS OF THE TON:\\nThe poet, stretch d the mossy banks along,\\nLull d in the visions of his rising song,\\nIn wonder waked, from rock and streams to hear\\nSounds more than human steal upon his ear 1310\\nAnd knew the guardian genii of the place\\nHad form d a choir, the muse s son to grace.\\nFrom our dull days, these chearing sprites are fled,\\nAnd scarce a fairy tends the shepherd s tread\\nBy stream, by grot, by fountain, or in grove, 1315\\nNo satyrs amble, and no dryads rove\\nMute are the rocks, and uninspired the trees,\\nNo sound the poet hears, no vision sees.\\nBut me the Muse, with Latian fancy, leads\\nTo sing the genii of her ancient creeds 1320\\nHence cull machinery for my epic song,\\nAnd choose a patron from the mystic throng\\nLine 1312.] Auditis an me ludit amabilis\\nInsania Audire, et videor pios\\nEn-are per lucos, amccnse\\nQuos et aquae subeunt et aurae.\\nLine 1321.] It is but of late years that an Epic,\\nwithout machinery, could be expected to be tolerated", "height": "3180", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 255\\nSome god, by men and matrons held divine,\\nAnd thus, with offerings, consecrate his shrine\\nThough now the orchard-wall the school-boy\\nshuns, 1325\\nDeterr d alone by man-traps and spring-guns\\nThough from the seed-beds, ancient garments scare,\\nOn mimic poles, the tenants of the air\\nThough, on the king s highway, the matron spy\\nNo imaged god to make her cry O fy! 1330\\nTo thee, Priapus, shall my vows be paid,\\nAnd votive couplets on thine altar laid\\nand even at present, many a learned critic will tell you,\\nthat a poem, without this ingredient, may be called what\\nelse you please, but certainly not an Epic for Aristotle\\nexpressly defines, c. It was, therefore, truly fortu-\\nnate for our poet, that, before the conclusion of his\\nwork, he remembered to introduce machinery His\\nwork might, otherwise, by great scholars, have been\\ndenied its name of Epic although it has as legitimate\\na title to this denomination, as either the Iliad or Eneid,\\nbeing, no less than they, entirely composed of\\nwhence the derivative sznxes.\\nLine 1331.] The peculiar province of this God was\\nto guard orchards, highways, c. He was always re-", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "256 EPICS OP THE TON\\nIn this great town, most honour d of the gods,\\nAnd duly worship d in the great abodes.\\nWhether, in mortal shape reveal d to view, 1335\\n(The shape, as some relate, of ancient\\nA noted jockey, at all race-grounds known,\\nAnd quite familiar with poor mortals grown,\\nYou take alike the fair and black legs in,\\nThe purse of one, the others favours win, 1340\\nAnd please your godship with tit-bits of sin.\\nOr to dark passage silently convey d,\\nYou seem John Footman to the chamber-maid\\nIn whispers low your fond desires reveal,\\nAnd, all unknown, her sweet-heart s portion steal j\\nThen with a quaint sly thrift, to make amends, 1346\\nPurloin her savings of the candle-ends.\\nOr, at the brink of dawn, you lie in wait\\nWhere lamps, in shining piles, adorn the gate\\nWith promised ribbons, and close squeeze, assail\\nThe buxom virgins of the flowing pail 1351\\npresented in puris naturalibus, without even a veiling fig-\\nleaf and hence was usually looked upon as the deity,\\nof pruriency.", "height": "3192", "width": "1716", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 257\\nWho, scorning favours shower d alike on all,\\nRepulse your fervent hug, with angry squall\\nPluck from the street, by Dian s aid, fell stones,\\nAnd swear to crack your skull, and break your\\nbones. 1355\\nOr, placed at dusk, to watch in devious ways,\\nWhen star nor lamp your silent step betrays\\nTill, by your skilful eye, a petticoat\\nAmidst th uncertain gloom is seen to float\\nThen seize the fair, and haste, in accents meet, 1360\\nTo lay your soul and body at her feet\\nCareless if face or person s fine or common,\\nAnd quite content to find your prize a woman\\nThink to your arms, if cheap, a goddess given,\\nPleased if seventeen she prove, or sixty-seven. 1365\\nLine 1352.] It is to be questioned whether the poet\\nhas not here, for the sake of the verse, employed fa-\\nvours simply for promised favours for I could never\\nlearn that the god Priapus ever actually gave ribbons to\\nthe milk-girls at Hyde Park Corner.\\nLine 1354.] Diana, the goddess of chastity, who\\nwould not fail to render effectual assistance to her vota-\\nries in such a dangerous emergency.\\nZ 3", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "5S EPICS OF THE TOtt?\\nOr led, Kke Polyphemus, by one eyej\\nTo opera glass your single light apply j\\nWkh looks intent, the luscious scene survey,\\nWhere plump Signoras their white spheres display\\nAnd, not forgetful of the circling beau, 1370\\nTheir polish d iimbs the bounding damsels show,\\nAnd all the charms are seen of Parisot.\\nBlest fair whose power the gripe of avarice mocks,\\nAnd on her benefit procures the box.\\nOr when the balmy hours of circling spring, 13 75-\\nFair holidays, and Greenwich gambols bring\\nYou love, with smirk on face, and glass in hand,.\\nAt base of hill, with eyes upsent, to stand\\nWhence striving maidens, rolling down amain,\\nPant for the prize, and tumbling seek the plain;\\nArms, ancles, bosoms, toss d by turns on high, 138 1\\nThe kerchiefs loose, and floating robes defy.\\nOr with a friend of gout in vis-a-vis,\\nThe streets you haunt, a belle of fame to see\\nNow catch a glimpse, at door of crusty law, 1385*\\nOf some one beauteous by a grand- faux-pas\\nLine 1386 It is curious to observe the charms with.", "height": "3192", "width": "1716", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "TIIE MALE BOOK. 25Q\\nNow, to the green-room door, impatient pres3,\\nTo view the ballet-corps in morning dress.\\nOr, in balcony, oft at noontide seen,\\nWith hat of straw, and parasol to screen 1390\\nYqu eye the romping misses at their walk,\\nAnd slily list to hear the giglets talk\\nFeel, for the opening buds, your bosom glow,.\\nAs for their grannams sixty years ago.\\nWhile thus, in mortal shape, you glad our eves,\\nO great Priapus long not for the skies 1396.\\nWith cordial drops, his ready aid to lend,\\nMay Esculapius still vour steps attend\\nWarm be the milk in which your limbs you lave,.\\nAnd juicy viands may your stomach crave 1400\\nLike Plutus rich, your bags of gold o erflow,\\nAnd no one dun you even for what you owe j\\nwhich a frail fair one is immediately invested.^ as soon as\\nshe comes before a public court. She is always found\\nto. be interesting, beautiful, captivating. Mrs. L\\nseems to be peculiarly aware of this circumstance, and\\ntherefore endeavours to keep up the affair by Vindications.\\nThere is certainly no way in which so much eclat is. to\\nbe gained.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nMay thin-clad damsels, night and morn, await,\\nTheir soft appointments, just before your gate\\nThere, as their Bond-street, misses daily meet, 1405\\nShort be their petticoats, and wet the street\\nof M-\\nThe dawn is broke already far on high,\\nThe lark s plebeian notes alarm the sky\\nNow creeping watchmen, scarce, by morn alive,\\nStill cheat; and six resound, when just past five:\\nNow, from gay orgies, rattling chariots bear 1411\\nThe haggart remnants of the tonish fair 3\\nWho bent, next morn, to dash at something new,\\nAn early breakfast order, just at two\\nNow, from the masquerades, demure and slow,1415\\nWith saffron visage, slinks the jaded beau\\nAnd forth from Brookes s prowl the pharo groupe,\\nWhile quizzing draymen quaff the brown saloop\\nLine 141S.] Saloop is a liquor formed from an in-\\nfusion of saxifrage, and exposed on numerous stalls in\\nthe streets of London, at an early hour in the morning.\\nIt is drunk like coffee and, with a toasted muffin,", "height": "3180", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. Q l\\nFair ladies, reeling, not a wish provoke,\\nAnd, London atmosphere is free from smoke. 1420\\nTis time for us, my muse, to quit our flight,\\nAnd, ere the son grows hot, to bid good night\\nE en fashionables need some hours for sleep,\\nAnd day for rest, as night for pleasure, keep.\\nWe ve trod the scenes, where wealth and power\\nabound, 1425\\nAnd yet no patron sought, no patron found\\nNo great Mecaenas has surprised our sight,\\nNo Bufo has our flattery dragg d to light.\\nUnhired, the Glories of the Age we ve sung,\\nWith hand unbribed, and with unbridled tongue j\\nCareless of praise, and little moved by blame, 1431\\nNo patron s frowns our dread, or smiles our aim.\\nYet had welick d the foot which shoe-string touches,\\nLike poor F x C p r with the youthful duchess t\\nforms a very seasonable repast to the various workmen\\non their way to their daily labours.\\nLine 1434.] A writer of Lyrics, (need there more\\nbe said) who lately endeavoured to be known by a very\\nfulsome dedication to the youthful spouse of a noble*\\nand wealthy duke.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "EPICS OF THE TON\\nOr like Olivia, in a limping speech,\\nPrais d the chaste rarities of Lady H.\\nOr warm d, like M\u00c2\u00ab4r ce, by Museum fire,\\nFrom Ganges drag d a hurdy-gurdy lyre\\nLine 1435.] A lady who can write rhymes, though\\nnot grammar and who endeavoured to prove herself a\\nbeautiful poetess, by prefixing a portrait of herself to\\nher pieces. Her praises are bestowed on those towards\\nwhom she is attracted by congenial feelings. Similis\\nsimili gaudet.\\nLine 1437.] This man has treated the public taste\\nwith many ponderous volumes of Indian History and\\nAntiquities, on the merits of which, few, we believe, are\\ncapable of passing a just decision, if indeed a person\\nmust have read through a work before he is qualified to\\njudge of it. To the astonishment of his friends and\\nthe public, this laborious collector of old women s fables\\nsuddenly became a poet the Fall of the Mogul was\\nsounded in lofty tragic strains and a very pretty speci-\\nmen of poetical typography announced that a vast deal\\nmore of the same commodity was in embryo, and would\\nin due time be brought forth. The subject of one beau-\\ntiful piece (royal paper, and printed by Bulmer) was\\nDr. Lettsom s country-seat near Camberwell a gentle-\\nman who, in spite of his pretty grounds at Grove-hill,\\nand good dinners, and love of fame, is likely to prove", "height": "3184", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 263\\nThe muses loved and loved no less, to dine;\\nAnd Lettsom s seat beprais d, and Lettsom s wine\\nLike G ff d, soak d our wit in loyal zeal, 1441\\nAnd squeezed the lemon upon C g s veal\\nThe public taste, with Nelson s praises hit,\\nAnd scrawl d a monody on Fox or Pitt\\nLike Tommy M e had seratch d the itching\\nthrong, 1445\\nAnd tickled matrons with a spicy song\\nOf M a s bounty, M a s manners told,\\nProfuse in compliments, but scarce of gold\\nlittle more fortunate in his bard than Alexander the\\nGreat.\\nLine 1441.] Mr. Gilford s labours in the Anti-jacobin\\nnewspaper have been already noticed. A man does to-\\nlerably well if he can sell a few epigrams and corrections\\nfor a good place for life.\\nLine 1444.] With these nauseous performances, the\\npublic has of late been so terribly surfeited, that he must\\nhave a stout stomach who does not actually sicken at the\\nname of monody. Yet what will not party swallow\\nThese writers of insipid rhymes grow fat on praises and\\npublic dinners.", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "264 EPICS OF THE TON\\nThen might her Grace, upon our leaves, display\\nHer milk-white hand, and much admire the lay\\nAnd, though she deem d the lie no mighty matter,\\nMight blushing lisp Indeed, indeed, you flatter\\nThen might her ladyship, in maiden tone,\\nRefuse the tribute of a thing unknown\\nAnd L t m, bounteous to a young beginner, 1455\\nInvite to simple joint, and Sunday dinner\\nThen friends in power might on our merits think,\\nAnd some snug post provide for meat and drink\\nAt least our subject claim the town s regard,\\nAnd public dinners be our great reward 1460\\nOr, sought by all, engaged to fifty fetes,\\nOur songs and presence held the first of treats\\nOur liquorish lays had dropt in titled ears,\\nAnd our good fortunes gall d our blank compeers:\\nLine 146-L] This seems a gallicism, a literal transla-\\ntion of bonnes fortunes. Nothing could be more grati-\\nfying than the triumphant reception which this spicy\\npoet experienced on his return to his native country.\\nHappy was the titled host who could secure him at a day\\nsix weeks distant. It is amazing that his Excellency the\\nL. L. did not make a knight of him.", "height": "3192", "width": "1708", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 265\\nWhile sure his smiles to gain, on all who smiles,\\nA lord s acquaintance had repaid our toils. 1466\\nWhat no Mecaenas when the things abound\\nA patron e en for Dermody was found\\nThat scape- grace, born to show our wondering\\ntimes,\\nWith how much vice a man may tag smooth\\nrhymes: 14/0\\nLine 1468.] This youth had acquired an easy knack\\nof writing smooth verses at a ver^y early age. But if he\\nwas distinguished for this proof of genius, he was still\\nmore remarkable for an ungovernable propensity to every\\nspecies of vice, which he seemed to have acquired in\\nhis very nonage. He applied himself, however, to the\\ngreat} and the discerning great showered upon him a more\\nliberal patronage than almost any man of genius has lately\\nreceived at their hands. Yet all was in vain. Dermody \\\\s\\ndebauchery became disgraceful and shocking to the last\\ndegree and no resources were sufficient to save him\\nfrom want. He closed his career at length in a garret\\nand, what may seem most wonderful, one Raymond\\nhas given to the public the memoirs of this interesting\\ncharacter in two octavo volumes and, if I am not\\nmistaken, has promised to enlarge still further on the\\ntheme", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "266 EPICS OF THE TON\\nPeers, o er this hopeful genius, strove to watch,\\nAnd titled dames supplied his gross debauch.\\nSure still some charm attends a patron s name,\\nWhen T 1 r s lumber N f k s aid may claim\\nLine 1474.] The observations, which the poet has\\nhere made on this unfortunate translator, seem intended\\nas a sacrifice to the manes of Plato. Mr. Taylor is a very-\\ngood sort of man and the report must be untrue that\\nhe has so far grecianized himself as actually to believe\\nin all the deities of Athens. With regard to the trans-\\nlation of Plato, I believe he did his best. Not being\\nvery well versed in Greek, he had the prudence to make\\nuse of the Latin version of the learned Ficinus and the\\nmisfortune to copy even his errors. As to the philoso-\\nphy of Plato, he seems to have drawn his notions of it\\nfrom the Man of the Moon, or some equally authentic\\nsource but certainly not from the writings of Plato.\\nThe Socratic mode of reasoning, in his hands, consists\\nin saying such unintelligible things in such unaccountable\\nterms, that it is impossible for any antagonist to frame\\nor imagine a reply. In short the Deus ille noster Plato\\nof Cicero seems the most grotesque divinity of the whole\\nPantheon. It is said that his Grace of N out of\\na liberal desire to encourage literature, bore the expences\\nof this publication. It is to be hoped that he looks upon\\nvirtue as its own reward.", "height": "3196", "width": "1720", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. Q6J\\nT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -1 r, whose five huge tomes our nerves affright,\\nWhile godlike Plato rants Tom Bedlam quite 1476\\nAnd words so strange the grave burlesque express,\\nIt seems a Bishop robed in Motley s dress.\\nDiscerning patrons 1 what does genius owe\\nTo streams which spread so wide, so bounteous flow!\\nWhich drench the barren sand, and rock so hard,\\nNor ever hope, or, hoping, meet reward 1482\\nHow, from such aid, my soul indignant turns,\\nAnd proudly seeks obscurity and Burns\\nThe boast of Scotland, left by patron peer 1485\\nTo earn his scanty bread by gauging beer\\nWith downcast visage, and with falt ring speech,\\nNo lord shall hear my recreant tongue beseech\\nShow, in his booby face, the mantling smile,\\nWhile all my ills I tell, and all my toil 1490\\nLine 1485.] An Englishman is tempted to say,\\nHad Burns lived in England, he would have expe-\\nrienced a different fate. The patronage which Bloom-\\nfield has received would seem to justify this sentiment\\nbut I must repress my proud patriotic feelings, when I\\nrecollect the fate of Otway and Chatterton.\\nA A 2", "height": "3136", "width": "1668", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "268 EPICS OF THE TON\\nWith heart unmoved, observe my wants complain,\\nAnd say he ll think on t butne er think again\\nTill raised, like Johnson, quite beyond his aid,\\nI throw the paltry pageant in the shade\\nWho then, with card and condescending smile, 14Q5\\nWould love to share the honours of my toil.\\nLine 1496\\\\] There is no instance in which the mind\\nis more completely gratified by the triumph of humble\\nmerit over hereditary power and wealth, than in the\\ntransactions between Lord Chesterfield and Dr. Johnson.\\nWhen the undiscerning peer, after abandoning the poor\\nunknown author to his wretchedness, endeavoured after-\\nwards (when Johnson had, by his unaided efforts, drawn\\nupon himself the eyes of the world) to seize the station\\nof patron, and share the applause which the author had\\nearned, the indignant letter which Johnson wrote him\\nexcites corresponding sentiments in every breast. Yet\\nChesterfield was no common lord he could make\\nmerry with titles and privileges He could term the\\nHouse of Peers, the Hospital of Incurables He could\\nwonder that Chatham would voluntarily enter into\\nsuch a society And he could talk of genius and learn-\\ning as infinitely more dignified than whatever monarchs\\ncan bestow. If, therefore, even Chesterfield acted\\nthis part with Johnson, what is to be expected from\\nothers", "height": "3192", "width": "1708", "jp2-path": "epicsoftonorglor00hami_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THE MALE BOOK. 269\\nBut me, nor patron s aid, nor vulgar praise,\\nInvites to woo the muse, and weave the lays\\nMy name unknown, and doom d my verse to see\\nAssign d to all that rhyme, but ne er tome; 1500\\nThe teeming worthies of a favour d age\\nAlone my fancy wake, my song engage.\\nPleased, them to raise on high to public view,\\nLike tall Pagoda in the park of Kew,\\nLike traitor s head on Temple Bar of yore, 1505\\nOr like lord Cr n y drawn by brethren four,\\nWhere line ne er sounded will I sink my name,\\nNor envy them bear witness, Heaven their fame\\nLine 1506.] This certainly must be a mistake of our\\nauthor, as we have never seen this hero of the whip\\ndrawn by asses.\\nLine 1507.]\\nTo work mine end upon their senses, that\\nThis airy charm is for, I ll break my staff,\\nBury it certain fathoms in the earth,\\nAnd deeper than did ever plummet sound,\\nI ll drown my book. 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