A Metrical History of England Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin |
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Cornwali's decease the Speaker's chair bestows
On Addington, whose worth the country knows;
Some frantic hand again the King assails,
It's aim, to ev'ry subject's rapture, fails.
Franklin and Howard pay great nature's debt,
For virtue in a philosophic dress,
The first renown'd; the second no one yet
Hopes to surpass, while many a 'prison'd wretch,
Far as the hand of time will stretch,
Shall find some cause his memory to bless.
On Addington, whose worth the country knows;
Some frantic hand again the King assails,
It's aim, to ev'ry subject's rapture, fails.
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For virtue in a philosophic dress,
The first renown'd; the second no one yet
Hopes to surpass, while many a 'prison'd wretch,
Far as the hand of time will stretch,
Shall find some cause his memory to bless.
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