The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With An Essay On the ..., volume 1
The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With An Essay On the ..., volume 1
Thomas Chatterton, Walter William Skeat, Edward Bell
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Rest, Johnson, hapless spirit, rest and drink, 1 So in other copy; MS. •* word." y Google 168 chattebton's poems. No more defile thy claret-glass with ink : In quiet sleep repose thy heavy heed, * * * * disdains to upon the dead : Administration will defend thy fame, And pensions add importance to thy name. When sovereign judgment owns thy works divine, And every writer of reviews is thine, Let busy Kenrick vent his little spleen, And spit his venom in a magazine. Health to the minister ! nor w...ill I dare To pour out flattery in his noble ear ; His virtue, stoically great, disdains Smooth adulation's entertaining strains, And, red with virgin modesty, withdraws From wondering crowds and murmurs of applause. Here let no disappointed rhymer say, Because his virtue shuns the glare of day, And, like the conscience of a Bristol dean, Is never by the subtlest optic seen, That virtue is with North a priestish jest, By which a mere nonentity's expressed. No, North is strictly virtuous, pious, wise, As every pensioned Johnson testifies.
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