Cant: A Satire (1843)

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: A SATIRE. 89 In language bold,?to sharp invective strung, Pregnant with Thought and vehement of Tongue, That makes the blood thro’ Cant’s vile pulses leap, And Conscience tremble so it dare not sleep ; Nor need she fear of Theme to be bereft, Whilst Oxford,?Cambridge,? Exeter are left ; Nay were she silent, or made strictest search, For Argument to prop a falling Church, Rapacity,?of Reverend Parents born, That Child of Ostentation, nursed by Scorn, Revenge,? the light of Persecution’s brand,? These holy Vultures, shadowing the Land, With Meanness, whose lean fingers all detest Have wrought Men’s hatred;?Pusey does the rest! dftnfc. Morton, Printer, 16, I'eter’s Hill, Doctor’s Commons. 01952 THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY …