There is no Frigate like a Book 1
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry－
This Travels may the poorest take 5
Without oppress of Toll－
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul.
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry－
This Travels may the poorest take 5
Without oppress of Toll－
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul.
(F.1286/J.1263)
[1] frigate:: a battle ship. Book:: a betting book.
[2] take, lands away:: to gamble away our lands.
[3] coursers:: those who chase, pursue. page:: attendant, servant.
[4] prancing:: strutting, walking proudly. poetry:: a poetical manner.
[6] oppress of toll:: the inexpensive lottery ticket.
[7] Chariot:: the lottery sold by an attendant on a carriage.
as if he had not been ten times worse every way, with his betting book, and his gaming table, and his opera girls, and his Lady This and Mrs. That ─ Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey (1851)
The old man was in affliction; for one of his sons had lost in a lottery about ＄400; and, not being able to pay up the amount demanded, he took a dose of opium (the usual mode of committing suicide), and killed himself. His father is trying to have those who conducted the lottery and thus seduced his son to ruin, brought to justice for their crime. ─ The Baptist Missionary Magazine (1869)