Yet, why impair thy bright perfection? She long had wanted cause of fear. STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE 1 AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys, Which triumph forces from the patriot heart, O Wolfe! to thee a streaming flood of woe, And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes: AN ELEGY ON THAT GLORY OF HER SEX, GOOD people all, with one accord, [1 First printed in The Busy Body, 20th October, 1759, a week after the news of Wolfe's death (on 13th September previous) had reached England.] [First printed in The Bee, 27th October, 1759. It is modelled on the old song of M. de la Palice, a version of which is to be found in Part iii. of the Ménagiana.]] 1 The needy seldom pass'd her door, She strove the neighbourhood to please, But now her wealth and finery fled, The doctors found, when she was dead, Her last disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, dtect For Kent-street well may say, That had she lived a twelve-month more, - мне дин TO YEOJO TAHT Zо клали Ис DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER1 WHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way, [1 First printed in a Chinese Letter in The Public Ledger, 2nd May, 1760, afterwards Letter xxix. of The Citizen of the World, 1762, i. 121.] [i. e. "entire butt beer" or porter.] There in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scor'd, nd d ON SEEING MRS. * * PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF * For you, bright fair, the Nine address their lays, Vide note 1, p. 29.] William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-65, -probably silhouette.] Cf. The Deserted Village, p. 29: "A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day."] From Letter lxxxii. of The Citizen of the World, 1762, ii. 87, st printed in The Public Ledger, 21st October, 1760. The verses intended as a specimen of the newspaper muse.] 'Twas joy and endless blisses all around, OF THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT YE muses, pour the pitying tear O! were he born to bless mankind How sad the groves and plains appear, His bounty in exalted strain And hark! I hear the tuneful throng He still shall live, shall live as long [From Letter cii. of The Citizen of the World, 1762, ii. I first printed in The Public Ledger, 4th March, 1761. The verses given as "a specimen of a poem on the decease of a great ma Cf. the Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, p. 57.] AN EPIGRAM ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN REFLECTED ON IN THE ROSCIAD, A POEM, BY THE AUTHOR 1 LET not the hungry Bavius' angry stroke TO G. C. AND R. L. 'Twas you, or I, or he, or all together, 'Twas one, both, three of them, they know not whether; This, I believe, between us great or small, You, I, he, wrote it not-'twas Churchill's all. [From Letter cx. of The Citizen of the World, 1762, ii. 193, first printed in The Public Ledger, 14th April, 1761. The epigram, however, had been printed in the Ledger for 4th April, and so was only revived in the letter of ten days later. It is one of Goldsmith's doubtful pieces, but his animosity to Churchill is notorious.] [Charity (Author's note).] [Settled at one shilling, the price of the poem (Author's note).] [From the same letter as the preceding epigram. George Colman (G. C.) and Robert Lloyd (R. L.) were supposed to have assisted Churchill in the Rosciad, the "it" of the epigram.] |