The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life, Том 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... lines are thought to allude to some story concern- ing a vast quantity of mahogany declared rotten , and then applied by somebody to wainscots , stairs , door - cases , & c.- Dublin ed . 2 He hath practised this trade for many years ...
... lines are thought to allude to some story concern- ing a vast quantity of mahogany declared rotten , and then applied by somebody to wainscots , stairs , door - cases , & c.- Dublin ed . 2 He hath practised this trade for many years ...
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... lines will never die ! " " I grant your suit , " the God replied , And here he left me to reside . 1 Alluding to five hundred pounds lent by the Dean with- out interest , to poor tradesmen . - F . VERSES OCCASIONED BY THE FOREGOING ...
... lines will never die ! " " I grant your suit , " the God replied , And here he left me to reside . 1 Alluding to five hundred pounds lent by the Dean with- out interest , to poor tradesmen . - F . VERSES OCCASIONED BY THE FOREGOING ...
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... lines they writ , In praise of long departed wit , Be graved on either side in columns , More to my praise than all my volumes , To burst with envy , spite , and rage , The Vandals of the present age . VERSES SENT TO THE DEAN WITH AN ...
... lines they writ , In praise of long departed wit , Be graved on either side in columns , More to my praise than all my volumes , To burst with envy , spite , and rage , The Vandals of the present age . VERSES SENT TO THE DEAN WITH AN ...
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... we do not therefore retain in the text , but place them below . The lines cancelled are those in which Swift appears to have thought his satire had gone to dangerous lengths . - Scott . Who , when she loudly cries , Forbear , With.
... we do not therefore retain in the text , but place them below . The lines cancelled are those in which Swift appears to have thought his satire had gone to dangerous lengths . - Scott . Who , when she loudly cries , Forbear , With.
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... line , Poor starv'ling bard , how small thy gains ! How unproportion'd to thy pains ! And here a simile comes pat in : Though chickens take a month to fatten , The guests in less than half an hour Will more than half a score devour . So ...
... line , Poor starv'ling bard , how small thy gains ! How unproportion'd to thy pains ! And here a simile comes pat in : Though chickens take a month to fatten , The guests in less than half an hour Will more than half a score devour . So ...
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Apollo bard beauty Behold better BIRTH-DAY Cadenus call'd Carteret Chloe court dame damn'd Dean DEAN SWIFT Dean's DELANY delight design'd divine Dublin dullest beast Dunciad envy eyes face fair fame fancy fate fault female fill'd fix'd fleer fool friends give goddess grace grown half head hear heart honour JONATHAN SMEDLEY Jove kind king lady learn'd learning long-ear'd beast lord Lord Carteret Lord-Lieutenant madam maid mankind MARCH 13 merit mind mortal Muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain Pallas panegyric passion Pheasant Phoebus poem poets poison'd praise pride queen rage rhyme round scorn shame shine sing Sir Arthur Sir Arthur Acheson soul spite spleen Stella swain swear Swift taste taught tell thee things thou thought thousand true Vanessa Venus verse vex'd virtue Whig wise writ youth
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Страница 93 - To fancy they could live a year! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past; The town has got a better taste; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough. Pray do but give me leave to show 'em, Here Colley Gibber's birth-day poem.
Страница 214 - He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy.
Страница 223 - But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Страница 18 - ... Offending race of human kind, By nature, reason, learning, blind ; You who, through frailty, stepp'd aside ; And you, who never fell from pride : You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) — The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent these pranks no more. — I to such blockheads set my wit ! I damn such fools ! — -Go, go, you're bit.
Страница 255 - I'm ashamed to use a glass ; And till I see them with these eyes, Whoever says you have them lies. No length of time can make you quit Honour and virtue, sense and wit ; Thus you may still be young to me, While I can better hear than see. Oh, ne'er may Fortune show her spite To make me deaf and mend my sight • T STELLA'S BIRTHDAY.
Страница 214 - Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four; Imaginary charms can find In eyes with reading almost blind: Cadenus now no more appears Declined in health, advanced in years. She fancies music in his tongue; Nor farther looks, but thinks him young.
Страница 91 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall, (I wish I knew what king to call.; Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Страница 85 - tis hardly understood Which way my death can do them good, Yet thus, methinks, I hear them speak : ' See, how the Dean begins to break ! ' Poor gentleman, he droops apace! ' You plainly find it in his, face. ' That old vertigo in his head ' Will never leave him, till he's dead. ' Besides, his memory decays : ' He recollects not what he says...
Страница 82 - I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: "In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends: While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Страница 84 - Thus much may serve by way of proem; Proceed we therefore to our poem. The time is not remote when I Must by the course of nature...