The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life, Том 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... thou must fan the Lover's fire ; For Beauty , like supreme dominion , Is best supported by Opinion : If Decency bring no supplies , Opinion falls , and Beauty dies . To see some radiant nymph appear In all her glittering birth - day ...
... thou must fan the Lover's fire ; For Beauty , like supreme dominion , Is best supported by Opinion : If Decency bring no supplies , Opinion falls , and Beauty dies . To see some radiant nymph appear In all her glittering birth - day ...
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... thou canst make it bear ? Though tawdry now , and , like Tyrilla's face , The specious front shines out with borrow'd grace ; Though pasteboards , glittering like a tinsell'd coat , A rasa tabula within denote : Yet , if a venal and ...
... thou canst make it bear ? Though tawdry now , and , like Tyrilla's face , The specious front shines out with borrow'd grace ; Though pasteboards , glittering like a tinsell'd coat , A rasa tabula within denote : Yet , if a venal and ...
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... thou , immortal bard , my aid refuse , Accept me as the servant of your Muse ; Then shall the world my wondrous worth declare , And all mankind your matchless pen revere . AN INVITATION , BY DR . DELANY , IN THE NAME OF DR . SWIFT . 8 ...
... thou , immortal bard , my aid refuse , Accept me as the servant of your Muse ; Then shall the world my wondrous worth declare , And all mankind your matchless pen revere . AN INVITATION , BY DR . DELANY , IN THE NAME OF DR . SWIFT . 8 ...
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... thou not wish in so much ease , Thy years as numerous as thy days ? THE HARDSHIP UPON THE LADIES . 1733 . POOR ladies ! though their business be to play , ' Tis hard they must be busy night and day : Why should they want the privilege ...
... thou not wish in so much ease , Thy years as numerous as thy days ? THE HARDSHIP UPON THE LADIES . 1733 . POOR ladies ! though their business be to play , ' Tis hard they must be busy night and day : Why should they want the privilege ...
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... round , Who at them rail , bid - confound ; To b - p - haters answer thus : ( The only logic used by us ) What though they don't believe in Deny them Protestants - thou lyest . A prince , the moment he is crown'd , Inherits 68 ON POETRY .
... round , Who at them rail , bid - confound ; To b - p - haters answer thus : ( The only logic used by us ) What though they don't believe in Deny them Protestants - thou lyest . A prince , the moment he is crown'd , Inherits 68 ON POETRY .
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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...