A Letter to a Member of the House of Commons Upon the Meeting of Parliament
A Letter to a Member of the House of Commons Upon the Meeting of Parliament
Thomas Richard Bentley
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Forgive me, but when I think of the latter end of thefe dupes, I will not call them favourites of fortune, and of their vows conceded by malignant deities, I cannot refrain from reminding you of a wifer and a nobler prayer, and the wim of one who had been truly great, if he had never been condemn- ed to be a Courtier. Sic cum tranjierint mel Nullo cumjlrepitu dies Plebeius moriar fenex ! Illi mors gravis incubat Qui notus nimis omnibus Ignotus moriturfibi ! To thefe beautiful and well-known lin...es, permit me to add one brief reflection, which does not feem to have [ 93 ] have occurred to Seneca, and which I fhould be forry mould efcape your obfervation. There are men fo different from him, and they are not plebeii fenes, but have grown old and noble cum ftrepitu and aim put- vere, in dirt and noife, that folitude is therefore ter- rible to them, becaufe it will not permit them to die unknown to themfelves, but flops them on the brink of death to form this late and painful acquaintance, and compels them to concur before they part in the fentiments of all their contemporaries !
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