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The Works of Peter Pindar

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812. Excerpt: ... THE HORRORS OF BRIBERY; PENITENTIAL EPISTLE, FROM PHILIP HAMLIN, TINMAN, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY ADDINGTON, PRIME MINISTER. TO WHICH IS ADDED A POSTSCRIPT; CONTAINING Sensible Animadversions on Judge Grose's solemn and serious Address to the unfortunate Tinman. Omnia Roma Cum pretio. Juvenal. Poor Hamlin, hammering in his tin-shop, thought That Ministers, like Saucepans, might be bought; That Courtiers, like a Fish-kettle or Platter, Were made of wry malleable matter. A PENITENTIAL EPISTLE. From those hard walls, amidst whose awful round, The ear with horror feels the clanking chain; Where sighs from hollow vaults unpitied sound, And tears of bitterest anguish stream in vain: --Where faint, and fasten'd to th' unfeeling floor, The wretch desponding mourns amid his gloom; Expecting Death's dread hand t'unbolt his door, And lead him half-alive into the tomb;--From those hard walls poor Hamlin pour'd his sighs, Much marvelling how he came to such a place; And, lifting his two melancholy eyes, Address'd the Author of his sad disgrace: --"An't please your Worship, hear me, Sir, I pray; Hear me a bit. Lord! Lord! I thort no harm; No more, please God, than of my dying day: I ne'er once thort of making zich a starm. "I thort that voakes were bribed in Lenden too, Az well az in the country; zo thort I: I caan't but zay I look'd confounded blue, To hear the Terney-general's grievious cry. "Lord! half the Corporations, zo I've heerd, Look pon a Bribe no more than Bites o' Vleas; And zwallow Oaths, Lord! not one crume afeard, Az glibly az they clunk their Bread and Cheese. "I never thort that twas a sin or shame; Vor, az vor squeamishness, I never vound: I caan't zay that I thort myself to blame, That voakes wudquarl way two good thousand pound. "I know, the las...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154435931
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154435938
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 172 gr


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