Robert Nugent

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I lov'd thee beautiful and kind,
And plighted an eternal vow;
So alter'd are thy face and mind,
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Since first you knew my am'rous smart,
Each day augments your proud disdain;
'Twas then enough to break my heart,
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My heart still hovering round about you,
I thought I could not live without you;
Now we have liv'd three months asunder,
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Upon the Bust of English Worthies, at Stow.

Among these chiefs of British race,
Who live in breathing stone,
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Foul—with graceless verse,
The noble—dar'd asperse.
But when he saw her well bespatter'd, ...
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Tho' cheerful, discreet, and with freedom well bred,
She never repented an idle word said
Securely she smiles on the forward and bold,
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Lye on! while my revenge shall be,
To speak the very truth of thee.
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I swore I lov'd, and you believ'd,
Yet, trust me, we were both deceiv'd;
Though all I swore was true.
I lov'd one gen'rous, good, and kind,
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On Mrs. Penelope.

The gentle Pen, with look demure,
Awhile was thought a virgin pure
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While Lucy, chaste as mountain snows,
Gives every idle fop a hearing;
In Mary's breast a passion glows,
Which stronger is from not appearing.
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She who in secret yields her heart,
Again may claim it from her lover;
But she who plays the trifler's part,
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We thought you without titles great,
And wealthy with a small estate;
While by your humble self alone,
You seem'd unrated and unknown.
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Lovely shines thy wedded fair,
Gentle as the yielding air;
Cheering as the solar beam,
Soothing as the fountain-stream.
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Tom thought a wild profusion great
And therefore spent his whole estate
Will thinks the wealthy are ador'd,
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To Clarissa.

Why like a tyrant wilt thou reign,
When thou may'st rule the willing mind?
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Ever busy'd, ne'er employ'd,
Ever loving, ne'er enjoy'd,
Ever doom'd to seek and miss,
And pay unbless'd the price of bliss.
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Vainly hath heaven denounc'd the woman's woes,
Thou know'st no tender care, no bitter throes,
...

Robert Nugent Biography

Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent PC (1702 – October 13, 1788), Irish politician and poet, son of Michael Nugent and Mary, daughter of the ninth Lord Trimlestown, was born at Carlanstown, Co. Westmeath. He succeeded his father in the Carlanstown property on the 13 May 1739. He married firstly, 14 July 1730, Emilia (died in childbirth 16 August 1731), daughter of the fourth Earl of Fingall. They had one son, Edmund, who became a Lieutenant-Colonel and the father of two illegitimate sons (later Field Marshal Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edmund Nugent) before dying in 1771. Robert Nugent married secondly, 23 March 1736, Anna (died 22 November 1756), daughter of James Craggs and sister of the Right Honourable James Craggs, the secretary of state, whereupon Robert Nugent adopted the surname of Craggs-Nugent. She had already been twice given in marriage, but Robert, who was born a Roman Catholic, had abandoned his Church very early in life. He was tersely described by Richard Glover as a jovial and voluptuous Irishman who had left popery for the Protestant religion, money and widows. His wife's property included the borough of St Mawes in Cornwall, and Nugent sat for that constituency from 1741 to 1754, after which date he represented Bristol until 1774, when he returned to St Mawes. In 1747 he succeeded Lord Doneraile as Comptroller of the Household to the Prince of Wales. Nugent lent the Prince large sums of money, which were never repaid; the appointments and peerages he received later in life have been attributed to the wish of the Prince of Wales's son, George III, to compensate Nugent. Robert Craggs-Nugent served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1754 to 1759, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 15 December 1759. He was Vice-Treasurer of Ireland from 1759 to 1765, First Lord of Trade from 1766 to 1768, and Vice-Treasurer of Ireland again from 1768 to 1782. In 1768 he was made a member of the Irish Privy Council. He married in 2 January 1757 Elizabeth (died 29 January 1792), widow of the fourth Earl of Berkeley, who brought him a large fortune. His support of the ministry was so useful that he was created in 1767 Viscount Clare, and in 1776 Earl Nugent, both Irish peerages. Lord Nugent was the author of some poetical productions, several of which are preserved in the second volume of Dodsley's Collections (1748). The earldom descended by special remainder to the earl's son-in-law, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, and so to his successors, the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos.)

The Best Poem Of Robert Nugent

Epigram I.

I lov'd thee beautiful and kind,
And plighted an eternal vow;
So alter'd are thy face and mind,
'Twere perjury to love thee now.

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