Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

A Pindarick Ode to the Right Hon. the Earl Oxford. Written Soon after the Lady Margaret Harley was Recovered from a Fever. [from Poems on Several Occasions]

London

Printed by Edward Say

1736, 1743

"Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown / Where mad Ambition taints the Mind."

Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown
  Where mad Ambition taints the Mind:
The Son usurps his Father's Throne;
  The Father, by Resentment blind,
To Death or Bonds his Son consigns;
  Both loudly pleading Publick Good:
And oft th' unbaptiz'd Sultan shines
  In Purple of his Kindred Blood.
(Cf. p. 237 in 1736 ed.)

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At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1736, 1743).

Poems on Several Occasions. By Samuel Wesley, A.M. Master of Blundell’s School at Tiverton, Devon. Sometime Student of Christ-Church; and Near Twenty Years Usher in Westminster-School. (London: Printed by Edward Say in Warwick-Lane, 1736). <Link to ESTC>

Text from 2nd edition of 1743. See Poems on Several Occasions. By Samuel Wesley, A.M., 2nd edition, with additions. (Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University, for J. Brotherton in Cornhill, and S. Birt in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1743 [1744]). <Link to ESTC>

07/12/2004