The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Accursed bondsmen!—
ye who groaned for Greece;
Ye mean impostors, who combined to fleece,
When kindled England heard the freeman's moan,
And glowing patriots gave the needed loan,
Oh! what a hell was in your common heart,
That Greece was robbed, and Plunder hugg'd its part?
Oh! when can Avarice more vileness show,
Than when she gluts upon the wreck'd and low?
Ye mean impostors, who combined to fleece,
When kindled England heard the freeman's moan,
And glowing patriots gave the needed loan,
Oh! what a hell was in your common heart,
That Greece was robbed, and Plunder hugg'd its part?
Oh! when can Avarice more vileness show,
Than when she gluts upon the wreck'd and low?
“The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece,
Where burning Sappho loved and sung;” ------
That H---e and B---g joined to fleece,
Though Fauntleroy and Thurtell hung!! ------
Where burning Sappho loved and sung;” ------
That H---e and B---g joined to fleece,
Though Fauntleroy and Thurtell hung!! ------
How many ways there now are of acquiring fame! The prophet Irving is of opinion, “that our pride is a proof of our immortality;” let us add, “a downright, daring, never-flinching cheat deserves it.” The Phillenic Member of Parliament; the Greek patriot will live in the page of well remembered villanies when all his speeches are forgotten, and the “M. P.” sinks in inglorious oblivion.
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