<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455611" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>January, 1795</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing,<br>Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ;<br>Titled gluttons dainties carving,<br>Genius in a garret starving.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ;<br>Courtiers clinging and voracious ;<br>Misers scarce the wretched heeding ;<br>Gallant soldiers fighting, bleeding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wives who laugh at passive spouses ;<br>Theatres, and meeting-houses ;<br>Balls, where simp'ring misses languish ;<br>Hospitals, and groans of anguish.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arts and sciences bewailing ;<br>Commerce drooping, credit failing ;<br>Placemen mocking subjects loyal ;<br>Separations, weddings royal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Authors who can't earn a dinner ;<br>Many a subtle rogue a winner ;<br>Fugitives for shelter seeking ;<br>Misers hoarding, tradesmen breaking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taste and talents quite deserted ;<br>All the laws of truth perverted ;<br>Arrogance o'er merit soaring ;<br>Merit silently deploring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ladies gambling night and morning ;<br>Fools the works of genius scorning ;<br>Ancient dames for girls mistaken,<br>Youthful damsels quite forsaken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some in luxury delighting ;<br>More in talking than in fighting ;<br>Lovers old, and beaux decrepid ;<br>Lordlings empty and insipid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poets, painters, and musicians ;<br>Lawyers, doctors, politicians :<br>Pamphlets, newspapers, and odes,<br>Seeking fame by diff'rent roads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gallant souls with empty purses ;<br>Gen'rals only fit for nurses ;<br>School-boys, smit with martial spirit,<br>Taking place of vet'ran merit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Honest men who can't get places,<br>Knaves who shew unblushing faces ;<br>Ruin hasten'd, peace retarded ;<br>Candour spurn'd, and art rewarded.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455611" data-title="January, 1795 de Mary Darby Robinson" data-description="Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ; Courtiers clinging and voracious ; Misers scarce the wretched heeding ; Gal..."></div> </div> </div>

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