Author: PATTISON (Samuel):
Title: Original Poems; Moral, and Satirical.
Description: London: Printed for the Author, by Charles Paramore, Chapel-Street, Holywell-Mount, of whom it may be had: and sold by Messrs. Knight and Son, Booksellers to his Majesty, St. James's-Street; J. Parsons, Paternoster-Row; J. Lackington, Chiswell-Street; J. S. Jordan, Fleet-Street; J. Mathews, Strand; W. Kent, High Holborn; C. Riedel, Crown-Street, Soho; D. Taylor, Union-Street, Bishopsgate-Street; and J. Bruce, City-Road. 1792. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 156 x 97 mms., pp. [iii] iv - xxiv, [25] - 228, later half calf, gilt spine, marbled boards; binding a bit worn and rubbed, but a sound copy , The text opens with a preface about the author's life, which probably tells us more than any other document or printed source. The first poem "On Music," with a rather interesting and intricate metrical structure,, with other popular topics, such as a poem, "An Execration of the Slave Trade," with a pretty severe fate predicted for the slavers: "Ye black negotiators! hear the lay: If fed by panthers on your natal day, Or nurs'd by wolves of most voracious breed: Or are the spawn of furious Geryon's seed, O hear ye bad! and tremble while you hear: And for severest strokes your backs prepare! Infernal tortures shall yours souls possess: Your hopes cut off from Heav'n's long suffering grace. Th' undying worm your vitals shall corrode, And black perdition be your fix'd abode, Unless repentance weeps its tears of blood, And turns your harden'd nature unto God."

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