The Works of the English Poets, From Chaucer to Cowper;
The Works of the English Poets, From Chaucer to Cowper;
Alexander Chalmers
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" I'll scalp that bailiff— lacrifice-p'' In vain To rave at mischief, if the cause remain. O days long lost to man in each degree ! The golden days of hospitality ! When liberal fortunes vied with liberal strife To fill the noblest offices of life ; [gate When Wesdth was Virtue's handmaid, and her Gave a free refuge from the wrodgs of fate ; The poor at hand their natural patrons saw. And lawgivers were supplements of law. Lost are those days, and Fashion's boundless Has home the guardian magis...trate away: [sway Save in Augusta's streets, on Gallia's shoie. The rural patron is beheld no more. No more the poor his kind protection share. Unknown their wants, . and unredeiv'd their pray'r. Yet has that Fashion, long so light and vain, Reform'd at last, and led the moral train ? Haye her gay vot'ries nobler worth to boast For Nature's love, for Nature's virtue fost ? No— fled from these, the soiis of fortune find What poor respect to wealth remains behind. The mock regard alone of menial slaves.
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