. Debita Flacco. Echoes of Ode and Epode . Non ita RomuliPraescriptum et intonsi CatonisAuspiciis veterumque norma. Privatus illis census erat brevis,Commune magnum : nulla decempedisMetata privatis opacamPorticus excipiebat Arcton, 59 SMART SQUIRES. A LTHOUGH to moralize is not my forfe,^ *? It strikes me that your country-gentleman,I mean the verj smart and modern sort,Is hardly living on a proper plan. The stately mansion, costly tawdiy plant-house in Paxtonian taste, And back-stairs teeming with the monkey packWhose creed and pride are idleness and waste. The gardens, ample
. Debita Flacco. Echoes of Ode and Epode . Non ita RomuliPraescriptum et intonsi CatonisAuspiciis veterumque norma. Privatus illis census erat brevis,Commune magnum : nulla decempedisMetata privatis opacamPorticus excipiebat Arcton, 59 SMART SQUIRES. A LTHOUGH to moralize is not my forfe,^ *? It strikes me that your country-gentleman,I mean the verj smart and modern sort,Is hardly living on a proper plan. The stately mansion, costly tawdiy plant-house in Paxtonian taste, And back-stairs teeming with the monkey packWhose creed and pride are idleness and waste. The gardens, ample for a citys boast, Square miles of covert swarming for display, And farms shorn naked by the martyr hostButchered to make a Cockney holiday ; The Season, Ascot, Goodwood, Norway, Cowes ; The flight to Monte Carlo, Paris, Rome ;Meanwhile the blinds down at the Country House, Ten months away, perchance, and two at home ! 6o Ncc fortuitum sporncrc racspilcinLeges sinebant, oppida publicoSumptii jubentes et deorumTempla novo dccorare 6i You whine oer Agricultural Depression ;But let your candid friend take leave to say, That Landlords who abandon their profession,Must look to wake up Lacklands some fine day. The Westerns, Coverleys, and Allworthys, With all their failings, played a wholesome roUj They spent their substance on their Land and they did better on the whole.
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