| Great Britain - 1799 - 574 pages
...friends ; How, as he wander'd darkling o'er the plain, His reason drown'd in JEHKINSON'S champaigne, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a Premier's for a robber's blood. We have been thus minute in tracing the transitions in this inimitable passage, as they display, in... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1830 - 576 pages
..." Ah think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt, o'er wine, preach temperance to his friend*, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason...withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." But those were rare condescensions to society in the premier. From remaining unmarried, he was without... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1831 - 422 pages
..." Ah think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt, o'er wine, preach temperance to his friends, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason drowned in Jenkinson's champaign, A rustic's hand, but righteous rate withstood, Had Bhed a premier's for a robber's blood."... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1832 - 432 pages
...friends, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, Hia reason drowned jn Jenkinson's champaign, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." But those were rare condescensions to society in the premier. From remaining unmarried, he was without... | |
| Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 428 pages
...Rolliad :" " How as he wandered darkling o'er the Plain, " His Reason drown'd in Jenkinson's Champaign, " A Rustic's Hand, but righteous Fate withstood, " Had shed a Premier's, for a Robber's Blood. Probably, no Men in high Office, since Charles the Second's Time, drank harder than Pitt's Companions... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1836 - 428 pages
...Ah think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt, o'er wine, preach temperance to his friend.-*, How, as he wandered darkling o'er tHe plain, His reason drowned in Jenkiimnn's champaign, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1841 - 358 pages
...— " Ah, think what danger on debauch attends ! Let Pitt o'er wine preach temperance to his friends, How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason...withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." But those were rare condescensions to society in the premier. From remaining unmarried, he was without... | |
| Books - 1853 - 446 pages
...friends ; How, as he wander'd darkling o'er the plain, His reason drown'd in JENKINSON'S champaigne, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." " The back-stair influence, and the part which the Marquis of Buckingham had acted in it, provoked... | |
| Literature - 1857 - 640 pages
...our obligations. There is a story about Pitt in the ' Rolliad,' founded, we oelieve, on fact : — ' How as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason...withstood, Had shed a Premier's for a robber's blood.' The host was accustomed to do equal justice to his own champagne, if we may trust the anecdote which... | |
| Archer Polson - Law - 1858 - 212 pages
...alluding to Pitt, he says, "How, as he wandered darkling o'er the plain, His reason drown'd in Jeukinson's champagne, A rustic's hand, but righteous fate withstood, Had shed a premier's for a robber's blood." •f- Thurlow did not altogether like the tone of conscious superiority which the youthful prime minister... | |
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