How many saucy beaux we meet 'Twixt Westminster and Aldgate-street! Rascals - the mushrooms of a day, Who sprung and shared the South Sea prey, Nor in their zenith condescend...
The lad of mediocre spirit Blurs not with modesty his merit. On all exerting wit and tongue, His rattling jokes, at random flung, Bespatter widely friend and foe. Too late the forward boy will know...
My native land, whose fertile ground Neptune and Amphitrite bound, - Britain, of trade the chosen mart, The seat of industry and art, - May never luxury or minister...
A hungry wolf had thinned the fold, Safely he refuged on the wold; And, as in den secure he lay, The thefts of night regaled his day. The shepherd's dog, who searched the glen,...
Once on a time, in solemn state, Death, in his pomp of terror, sate. Attendant on his gloomy reign, Sadness and Madness, Woe and Pain, His vassal train. With hollow tone...
Though courts the practice disallow, I ne'er a friend will disavow: It may be very wrong to know him, And very prudent to forego him; 'Tis said that prudence changes friends...