POETRY

OF THE

ANTI-JACOBIN.

FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY,

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW,

ST. JAMES'S.

7!

CONTENTS.

page

INTRODUCTION

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Inscription for the Apartment in Chepstow Castle, where Henry

Marten, the Regicide, was imprisoned thirty years

Inscription for the Door of the Cell in Newgate, where Mrs.

Brownrigg, the Prentice-cide, was confined previous to her exe-

cution

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder

The Invasion; or, the British War Song

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La Sainte Guillotine; a New Song, attempted from the French

The Soldier's Friend

Sonnet to Liberty

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Quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever were, or ever will be

written

25

Latin Verses, written immediately after the Revolution of the Fourth

of September

Translation of the above

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29

The Choice; imitated from " the Battle of Sabla," in Carlyle's

Specimens of Arabian Poetry

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The Duke and the Taxing-Man

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Epigram on the Paris Loan, called the Loan upon England

Ode to Anarchy

Song, recommended to be sung at all convivial Meetings, convened

for the purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill

Lines written at the close of the

year 1797

Translation of the New Song of the " Army of England"

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To the Author of the "Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin" 53

Ode to Lord M-ra

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Lines written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor 78

Lines written by a Traveller at Czarco-Zelo, under the Bust of a

certain Orator, once placed between those of Demosthenes and

Cicero

The Progress of Man. A Didactic Poem

The Progress of Man, continued

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ib.

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The Loves of the Triangles. A Mathematical and Philosophical