The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and SheridanA. Constable, 1814 |
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... of his talents , had despised the petty malice of his enemies , and disdained to imitate them in the poor stratagems by which they sought to undermine his impregnable reputation . PREFACE . Twickenham , May 27 , 1727 . THE.
... of his talents , had despised the petty malice of his enemies , and disdained to imitate them in the poor stratagems by which they sought to undermine his impregnable reputation . PREFACE . Twickenham , May 27 , 1727 . THE.
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... poor wretches ( which is very lamentable ) for mere want of pen , ink , and paper ! From hence it follows , that a suppression of the very worst poetry is of dangerous consequence to the state . We find by experience , that the same ...
... poor wretches ( which is very lamentable ) for mere want of pen , ink , and paper ! From hence it follows , that a suppression of the very worst poetry is of dangerous consequence to the state . We find by experience , that the same ...
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... of this line's being borrowed from Seneca , makes the idea less nonsensical ? The fact only proves , that poor Theobald got his absurdity at second - hand , So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be 48 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
... of this line's being borrowed from Seneca , makes the idea less nonsensical ? The fact only proves , that poor Theobald got his absurdity at second - hand , So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be 48 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
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... poor gentlewo man , that sung finely ? We may define amplification to be making the most of a thought : it is the spinning - wheel of the bathos , which draws out and spreads it into the fin- est thread . There are amplifiers , who can ...
... poor gentlewo man , that sung finely ? We may define amplification to be making the most of a thought : it is the spinning - wheel of the bathos , which draws out and spreads it into the fin- est thread . There are amplifiers , who can ...
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... poor Colinet behind ! And yet , why blame I her ? ‡ With no less simplicity does he suppose that shep- herdesses tear their hair and beat their breasts at their own deaths : Ye brighter maids , faint emblems of my fair , With looks cast ...
... poor Colinet behind ! And yet , why blame I her ? ‡ With no less simplicity does he suppose that shep- herdesses tear their hair and beat their breasts at their own deaths : Ye brighter maids , faint emblems of my fair , With looks cast ...
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Addison Æsop Ambrose Philips ancient appear barrier treaty bathos beasts Blackmore bookseller called Cato catoptrical character church court critics Curll Dennis Doctor Double Falsehood Dr Arbuthnot Dr WARTON Duke Dunciad EDMUND CURLL ev'ry excellent eyes fear Fourth Doctor gentleman give hand hath head hear Homer honour humour Jews John Dennis king ladies learned letter Lintot live Lord maids mankind manner master Miscellanies Mohocks nature neighbours never observed occasion person piece poem poet poetry poor Pope pray puns pyed horses Quadrille Queen racter reader reason remarkable ridicule Rule satire Scriblerus Scriblerus Club Second Doctor sense specta spirit sweet Molly Swift thee thing Third Doctor thou thought tion Tom D'Urfey true turn verse WARTON Whiston whole wife women wonder words writ write
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Seite 331 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 65 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Seite 145 - Of these am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I rang'd the crystal wilds of air, In the clear mirror of thy ruling star I saw, alas! some dread...
Seite 330 - Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 145 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Seite 147 - Warn'd by the sylph, oh pious maid, beware ! This to disclose is all thy guardian can ; Beware of all, but most beware of man ! He said ; when Shock, who thought she slept too long, Leap'd up, and wak'd his mistress with his tongue.
Seite 153 - Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Seite 172 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Seite 335 - See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end; Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot; Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Seite 148 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.