Book Name: Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man
Writer: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
In the first place, an outline of Paine’s shocking life and profession is to
start with a feeling of a miracle that he was ever ready to develop by any
means. A most loved sonnet of the mid-eighteenth century was Thomas
Gray’s ‘Requiem Written in a Country Churchyard’, and I think that its
difficult to consider Paine without returning to this magnum opus of the
might-have-been: Perhaps in this disregarded spot is laid Some heart once
pregnant with heavenly fire; Hands that the bar of a domain may have
sway’d, Or waked to rapture the living lyre: But Knowledge to their eyes her
abundant page Rich with the crown jewels of time did ne’er unroll; Chill
Penury repress’d their honorable fierceness And solidified the friendly
the current of the spirit. Full numerous a pearl of most flawless beam quiet,
The dull unfathom’d cavern of sea bear: Full numerous a blossom is
destined to redden concealed, And squander its pleasantness on the desert air.
Privileges OF MAN I 20 Some town Hampden, that with valiant bosom The
little despot of his fields withstood; Some quiet undignified Milton here may
rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his nation’s blood. Dark, obviously, doesn’t
preclude to advise us that numerous inert absolutists and torturers have
likewise gone to anonymous residue without satisfying their latent capacity.
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