Category: Poetry
When knaves and fools combined o’er all prevail, When justice halts, and right begins to fail; E’en then the boldest start from public sneers, Afraid of shame, unknown to other fears; More darkly sin, by satire kept in awe, And shrink from ridicule, if not from law. BYRON.
When knaves and fools combined o’er all prevail, When justice halts, and right begins to fail; E’en then the boldest start from public sneers, Afraid of shame, unknown to other...
2. Part 2Suppose the judgment given[24]; but after years Of endless labour, and a million tears: Suppose the minutes by his lordship’s scrawl Drawn out and settled, after many a brawl; W...
3. Part 3How singularly fortunes changes fall! Slow sneaking forth comes learned Weatherall.[40] Yet half asleep, he seems just rous’d from bed; Still shines the greasy nightcap on his h...
4. Part 4I leave the cause with which my strain began; For why again the same dull topics scan? What Cross decides will not be right in course,-- Of new delays, and fresh appeals the sou...
5. Part 5[51] Mr. Abbot, chief clerk in the office, where reports are filed--from whom the solicitor will in vain attempt to get an office copy of a report, unless “the stationer” has be...