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Hence the rich oil, that from the Treasury steals, Drips smooth o'er all the Constitution's wheels, Giving the old machine such pliant play, That Court and Commons jog one joltless way, While Wisdom trembles for the crazy car, So gilt, so rotten, carrying fools so far.
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See yon smooth lord, whom nature's plastic pains Would seem to've fashion'd for those Eastern reigns When eunuchs flourish'd, and such nerveless things As men rejected were the chosen of Kings.
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; and the political attitude of the whole was sufficiently described on the title-page, where the lines were described as
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Addressed to an Englishman by an Irishman.
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Carpenter, however, threw cold water on the scheme, and the rebuff touched the poet's susceptibilities so sharply, that he determined not to trust himself again in London
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For this, his past successes were no resource, since it was always Moore's imprudent habit to sell work outright. Little's Poems were being constantly reprinted, with no benefit to their author; and as for the songs, he writes in August 1808,
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I quite threw away the Melodies. They will make that little, smooth fellow's fortune.
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The Author of Corruption and Intolerance, was issued by Carpenter: Rogers (who from this period onward ranks high among Moore's advisers) protesting against his continuance with this publisher. But the book attracted little notice; and the lack of success which attended these attempts in serious satire very naturally turned Moore back into the work where his triumph had been most gratifying. In January 1810 he published, with a dedication to Lady Donegal, the third instalment of his _Irish Melodies_, and it bears the stamp of its birthplace. The political passion is by far more openly declared than before, and in two or three of the lyrics--notably
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After the Battle and
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The Irish Peasant to his Mistress --it attains as high a pitch of poetry as is reached anywhere in its author's work. Part of the former may be quoted, if only to show the similarity between its motive and the central idea of
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The Fire Worshippers.