"Poor, Senseless Party Engines! Who are taught / To act by Mechanism, not by Thought, / Who speak by rote, and sell their venal Words, / To please Grandees, and smooth Intriguing Lords!"
The Patriot. A Poem
At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1712, 1728).<br>
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See <u>The Patriot. A Poem, Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford, &c. Lord High Treasurer of Great-Britain. By Mr. George Sewell.</u> (London: Printed for E. Curll, in Fleetstreet, 1712). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T71925">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>Posthumours [Sic] Works of Dr. George Sewell, Late of Hampstead, Physician. Viz. I. the Tragedy of King Richard the First. II. an Essay on the Usefulness of Snails in Medicine. III. Two Moral Essays, on the Government of the Thoughts, and on Death. To Which Are Added, Poems on Several Occasions, Publishe[d] in His Life-Time</u>. (London: Printed for Henry Curll in Clement’s-Inn, 1728).  [Titled "Walpole: or, The Patriot"] &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T147653">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;