He made all countries where he came his own.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.