The British Review, and London Critical Journal (Volume 17) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: You love an obolus; pray take these three? Honour me, sir, with your commands for supper. Sad times meanwhile for us !?with prying looks, Round comes my man of hides, and if he finds us Cooking a little something for our master, Incontinently lays his paw upon it, And modestly in his own name presents it! It was but t'other day these hands had mixt A Spartan pudding for him ; there?at Pylus: Slily and craftily the knave stole on me, Ilavish'd the feast and to my master bore it. Then none but he, forsooth, must wait at table: (We dare not come in sight) but there he stands All supper-time, and with a leathern fly-flap Whisks off the advocates; anon the knave Chants out his oracles, and, when he sees The old man plung'd in mysteries to the ears, And scar'd from his few senses, marks his time, And enters on his tricks. False accusations Now come in troops ; and at their heels the whip. Meanwhile the rascal shuffles in among us, And begs of one,?browbeats another,?cheats A third, and frightens all. ' My honest friends, These cords cut deep, you'll find it?I say nothing,? Judge you between your purses and your backs; I could, perhaps.'?We take the gentle hint, And give him all; if not, the old man's foot Plays such a tune upon our hinder parts, That flogging is a jest to't, a mere flea-bite? Wherefore, (turning to Nicias) befits it that we think what course To take, or where to look for help." (P. 161?164.) Art. III.?The Life of Voltaire, with interesting Particulars respecting his Death, and Anecdotes and Characters of his Contemporaries. By Frank Hall Standish, Esq. 8vo. pp. 393 Andrews. London, 1821. This is a panegyric on Voltaire, in which just so much of his wickedness is exhibited as...