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for English readers ninety years
'The young apostate of Down'—thus indicated for English readers ninety years ago—was Lord Castlereagh, afterwards Minister for Foreign Affairs, and well twitted by Byron for his Toryism; but who, in 1790, had been elected, after a struggle of two months' duration and an outlay of 60,000 l. , Whig Member for Down.
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

finds Elysium rivers nectar yield
The patient thus, when on his bed of pain, No longer he invokes the gods in vain, But rises to new life; in every field He finds Elysium, rivers nectar yield; Nothing so cheap and vulgar but can please, And borrow beauties from his late disease.
— from The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young

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