The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill Author:Charles Churchill 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: THE FAREWELL. THE goodness of the intention must here atone for the deficiency in the versification, and strength of argument for flow of poetry. The question... more » in discussion, hetween the poet and his friend, has been a standing topic of disputation for ages ; we who have lived to see the wildest theories of the schools attempted to be reduced into practice, and have witnessed the cosmopolitical efforts of Anacharsis Cloots, the sublime orator of the human race, together with the termination of his career, are tolerably competent to decide upon the madness, if not the wickedness, of the attempt to counteract one of the most powerful and beneficial instincts implanted in our natures, the love of Father-land. We make no apology for quoting from the poetry of the anti- Jacobin, a masterly exposure of that pretended universal philanthropy, which involves an entire neglect of the practical duties of the social and domestic affections. After an invocation to the " nameless Bard," the many languaged author of that powerful combination of much learning and sound criticism, with a considerable portion of prejudice and caprice, " The Pursuits of Literature," the author of the verses entitled New Morality, thus proceeds: " If vice appal thee, if thou view with awe, Insults that brave, and crimes that 'scape the law ;— Yet may the specious bastard brood, which claim A spurious homage under virtue's name; Sprung from that parent of ten thousand crimes, The new Philosophy of modern times— Yet, these may rouse thee !—With unsparing hand, Oh, lash the vile impostors from the land ! First, stern philanthropy:—not she, who dries The orphan's tears and wipes the widow's eyes; Not she, who, sainted charity her guide, Of British bounty pours the annual tide ;...« less