 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 страници
...whim! "What has the publick done for him! "Mere envy, avarice, and pride! "He gave it all:—But first he dy'd. "And had the Dean in all the Nation, "No..."So ready to do strangers good, "Forgetting his own flesh and blood?" (154-64) The poet thus praises his own generosity, and courts sympathy for the ways... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 страници
...had the public done for him ! Mere envy, avarice, and pride ! He gave it all: — but first he died. And had the Dean, in all the nation, No worthy friend,...So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood ?' Now Grub-Street wits are all employ'd ; With elegies the town is cloy'd: Some paragraph... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - 2005 - 276 страници
..."What had the Publick done for him! "Meer Envy, Avarice, and Pride! 160 "He gave it all: — But first he dy'd. "And had the Dean, in all the Nation, "No..."So ready to do Strangers good, "Forgetting his own Flesh and Blood?" THE Doctors tender of their Fame, 170 Wisely on me lay all the Blame: "We must confess... | |
 | Svetozar Minkov, Stéphane Douard - 2006 - 416 страници
...Whim! What had the Publick done for him? Meer Envy, Avarice, and Pride! He gave it all: — But first he dy'd. And had the Dean, in all the Nation, No worthy...So ready to do Strangers good, Forgetting his own Flesh and Blood?' (153-64) Swift's friend reminds us of Shakespeare's Romans learning of the death... | |
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And had the Dean, in all the nation, No worthy friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood... 
