The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (Volume 1); Memorial-Introduction. Poems of Monarchy. Treati

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1870 Excerpt: ... 3crlination, of itionarrhn. T U VIOLENCE. SECT. II. 1G. OW though the World on the exeentrieks be Fashion'd to move, and ballanee her own weight, Not mueh enelining to obliquity, Yet is her ruler Man--through self-eoneeit, Violenee of pride, fate of eorruption--Apt to give all her best works interruption. 17. For sinee Religion's name, not Nature, eame To rule, those aneient forming pow'rs gave plaee, The stile of eonseienee over-weighing fame, And reason yielding up her soveraign maee Unto those lively pietures whieh produee Unaetive apparitions2 of no use. 1 Deeline, as before. G. 2 Appearanees. G. 48. Whieh ehange1 straight wrought, hut was not straightways found, Pow'r was so veil'd with formal laws and baits Under whieh still the infinite lay bound And man bewiteht with wits eonfused sleights, To make Pow'rs throne the idol of his heart Transforming zeal and nature into Art. 49. So that without the guide of eloud or fire,1 Man sinee sails fatal straights of Hope and Fear, In ebbs and flouds of travelling desires, Where what we have to us is never dear: Pow'r making men vainly, by ofFring more, Hope to redeem that state they had before. 50. Henee falls it out that silly people loose3 Still by these thin webs of Authority; Whieh they that spin, yet therefore eannot use, Beeause these threds no more inherent be 1 Southey misprints 'eharge' G. 1 The pillar-eloud of Israel: Exodus xiv. 19. G. 5 Lose: 'Looso ' the eontemporary spelling. G. Within themselves, but so transerib'd to erowns As they raise Pow'r by pulling Freedom down. 01. Thus by a eredulous obedienee, Mankind gave Might a ground to build up more, Cooling and kindling his desire with senee, Even of sueh things as were his own before, Disease and Error meeting both in this That many follow where ...