From deepest Dungeons of Eternal Night, The Seats of Horror, Sorrow, Pains, and Spite, I have been sent to tell you, tender Youth, A seasonable and important Truth. And of all other, the most tempting Things Are too much Wealth, and too indulgent Kings. And my small Jehu, at a furious Rate, Was driving Eighty, back to Forty Eight. But I mistook his Patience for his Fear. All that this happy Island cou'd afford, Was sacrific'd to my Voluptuous Board.
Divinity is there.
I cou'd attempt, and he endure no more. Works of the English Poets with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Samuel Johnson . Use this information responsibly. The Ghost ofThe Old House of Commons, To The New One, appointed to meet at Oxford. The Penn State Archive of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets .