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 | 1877 - 362 pages
...erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid FRIEND ! G. CANNING, Xea Morality. — There is no man so friendless but that he can find a FRIEND sincere... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...erect, the manly foe ; Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good Heaven, Fill with their cries ! — Ulatthrui Arnold. 102. AGE. Acco Friencl. Canning. 1380. FRIEND. The True THE true friend is not he who holds up Flattery's mirror,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 522 pages
...PULTENEY ; — factions in all times Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me th'avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps...save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend ! " The resentment provoked by the fierce truculent personal attacks of ' the Anti- Jacobin,' which pursued... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 712 pages
...virgin-bride, and keep 1 Give me th' avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow ; But of all plagues, good heav'n, thy wrath...Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend. The Anti- Jacobin : New Morality, 1798. the secret inviolate for her sake. None of your tricks, gentle... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pages
...proverb), ' Defend me from my friends ; I can defend myself against my enemies.' Canning's lines — ' But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend ' — are a versified adaptation of it. Lord Melbourne, on being pressed to do something for a journalist,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend. CANNING : ffno Morality. If she repent, and would make me amends, Bid her but send me hers, and we... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 378 pages
...! So WALPOLK, PULTBNEY ; — factions in all times Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me th' avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, Bold...send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid friend! Nor is the prose of the Anti-Jacobin less keen and humorous than its poetry. How deliciously are the... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 370 pages
...avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; Bat of all plagnes, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid friend ! Nor is the prose of the Anti-Jacobin less keen and humorous than its poetry. How deliciously are... | |
 | Hermann Knust - 1879 - 738 pages
...erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn hie blow; But of all plagues, good haven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend. Doch auch in ganz ändern rcgionen findet das wort ein echo, wie der verfassor der reise durch Salzburg... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 488 pages
...wound up by complaining that the Government perpetually asked * " But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend." CANNING'S New Morality. Dangle. . . But you are quite right, Sir Fretful, never to read such nonsense.... | |
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