Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820
MR. MACFUNGUS declared that to pretend he was not elated by the
encomiums with which MR. FOX had honoured him was an affectation
which he disdained;—such encomiums would ever form the proudest
recompense of his patriotic labours—he confessed they were cheering
to him—he felt them warm at his heart—and while a single fibre of
his frame preserved its vibration, it would throb in unison to the
approbation of that Honourable Gentleman. The applause of the
Company was no less flattering to him—he felt his faculties
invigorated by it, and stimulated to the exertion of new energies in
the race of mind. Every other sensation was obliterated and absorbed
by it; for the present, however, he would endeavour to suppress his
feelings, and concentre his energies for the purpose of explaining
to the Company why he assisted now for the first time at the
celebration of the Fifth Revolution which had been effected in
regenerated France. The various and extraordinary talents of the
Right Hon. Gentleman—his vehement and overpowering perception, his
vigorous and splendid intuition would for ever attract the
admiration of all those who were in any degree endowed with those
faculties themselves or capable of estimating them in others; as
such, he had ever been among the most ardent admirers, and on many
occasions, among the most ardent supporters of the Right Hon.
Gentleman—he agreed with him in many points—in his general love of
Liberty and Revolution; in his execration of the War; in his
detestation of Ministers; but he entertained his doubts, and till
those doubts were cleared up, he could not, consistently with his
principles, attend at the celebration of any Revolution whatever.
These doubts, however, were now satisfactorily done away. A pledge
had been entered into for accomplishing an effectual radical
Revolution; not for the mere overthrow of the present System, nor
for the establishment of any other in its place; but for the
effecting such a series of Revolutions as might be sufficient for
the establishment of a Free System.
MR. MACFUNGUS continued he was incapable of compromising with first
principles, of acquiescing in short-sighted temporary palliative
expedients: if such had been his temper he should assuredly have
rested satisfied with the pledge which that Right Hon. Gentleman had
entered into about six months ago on the subject of Parliamentary
Reform, in which pledge he considered the promise of that previous
and preliminary Revolution, to which he had before alluded, as
essentially implicated.
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