This turn-of-the-eighteenth-century poem reads one way down, another way across. The "down" version was politically orthodox back in the reign of George I, whereas the "across" version represented treasonous Jacobite sympathies.
| I love with all my heart | The Tory party here |
| The Hanoverian part | Most hateful doth appear |
| And for their settlement | I ever have denied |
| My conscience gives consent | To be on James's side |
| Most glorious is the cause | To be with such a king |
| To fight for George's laws | Will Britain's ruin bring |
| This is my mind and heart | In this opinion I |
| Though none should take my part | Resolve to live and die |
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This stuff might look familiar.
http://www.newvectors.net/staff/parunakv/AAMAS06EmotionModel.pdf
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13639_1-9773239-42.html?tag=nefd.blgs
They built it and are selling it. They are patenting it too.
The work ended up exactly where predicted. Sad but so.
Using the blog comment because I don't have your email addy here at work.
Cute. Where's it from?
I have no idea, Conrad.
Hi John - this was the only way I could see to contact you! I saw a comment you made recently about Principles of English Etymology, the full view copy of which seems to have disappeared from Google Books.
I was hoping you still have a copy!
Thanks in advance,
Joseph
Joseph: sorry for the long delay. Google Books doesn't like scanned books with fingers in them, and that's probably why they took it down, even if (as in this case) the fingers don't interfere with reading.
I suppose it will be rescanned and put back up eventually, but I have no inside knowledge. Unfortunately, I no longer have a downloaded copy, either.
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