Dishonest lessons from that vaunting race,
Whom fate’s dread laws (for, in eternal fate
Despotic rule was heir to freedom’s hate,)
Whom in each warlike, each commercial part,
In civil counsel, and in pleasing art,
The judge of earth predestin’d for your foes,
And made it fame and virtue to oppose.
Odes on Several Subjects. Book II., ode i. Poetical Works. Aldine edition, 1835, p. 199.