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justice , no * in ^ utipg to idm , with his p oet , €€ unblemished honors , " &c ., but rather Qllowmg * his claim ^ to that * ' bad eminence" on which he has placed himself , among the corrupt courtiers and place-hunters of his day .
" The people , " says Dr . Knox , ( Spirit ojf Despotism , 1795 , Sect xx . p . 170 , ) f € have been called , not only venal wretches , " ( as " the electors of Bridge water * ' were described by Lord Melcombe , ) " but the swinish multitude . Long and tiresome books have been written to run down
the people , as destitute of virtue , principle , of every thing honest and honourable , and that can give them any right to interfere with the grand mysteries of a cabinet . But he who reads and considers duly the very striking anecdotes and conversations in Lord Melcombe ' s Diary , will see ,
that , in order to find venality in its full growth ,, and survey sordidness in its complete state of abomination , it will be necessary to turn from low to high life . — This Bubb Dodington , after selling himself , betraying the pr ince , and offering his six members to the best bidder , was made a Lord . He was created Baron of Melcombe
Regis , as a reward for such prostitution of principles as ought to have caused him to be branded in the forehead with a mark of indelible infamy < . € Such men / ' concludes Dr . Knox ,
" hate the people . They love nothing but themselves , the emoluments of places , the distinction of titles , and the pomp and vanity of the courts in which they flatter and are flattered .
They will ever wish for a military government to awe the saucy crowd , and keep them from intruding on their own sacred privileges and persons . The Herculean hand of a
virtuous people can alone cleanse the Augean stable of a corrupted court formed of miscreant toad-eaters like Wd Melcombe . " In this first publication of Summer
it extended only to 1148 lines . In 1730 it was increased to 1205 ; and in the later editions it has reached to 1804 lines . I shall proceed to notice the principal variations and additions .
Instead of the lines now read , 38 " -42 , the Planets were described in 1 727 and 1730 as
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" Unresti ng , changeless , matehless , in their Course ; To Day , and Night , and the delightful Round Of Seasons , faithful ; not excentric once ; So pois'd and perfect is the vast Machine r For lines 112—140 were the following , in 1727 , all , except the two first , quite different from what now appear :
" The vegetable World is also thine , Parent of Seasons ! from whose richstain'd Rays , Reflected various , various Colours rise : The freshening Mantle of the youthful Year ; The wild Embroidery of the wat ' ry Vale ; With all that chears the Eye , and charms the Heart .
" The branching Grove thy lusty Product stands , To quench the fury of thy Noon-Career ; And crowd a shade for the retreating Swain , When on his russet Fields You look direct . " Fruit is thy Bounty too , with Juice replete , Acid , or mild ; and from thy Ray
re-A Flavour pleasing to the Taste of Man . By Thee concocted , blushes ; and by Thee Fully rnatur'd , into the verdant Lap Of Industry , the mellow Plenty falls . " Extensive Harvests wave at thy
Command , And the bright Ear , consolidate by Thee , Bends unwithholding , to the Reaper ' s Hand . " Eveu Winter speaks thy Power , whose every Blast , O ' ercast with Tempest , or severely sharp With breathing Frost , is eloquent of Thee , And makes us languish for thy vernal Gleams .
e Shot to the Bowels of the teeming Earth , The ripening Ore confesses all thy Flame . " Instead of the paragraph , lines 185 —191 , the following appears in 17 ^ 7 , and in the edition of the Seasons , 1730 :
" And yet ^ was every fauitering Tongue of Man , AjlMighty Poet ! sileut in thy Praise , Thy matchless Works , in- each exalted Line , And all the full , harmonic Universe ,
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Book-Worm . No . XXVHL 413
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/21/
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