The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, Limited, 1910 - 4 pages |
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... writer as Horace , I have appended the Latin text . Moreover , Swift was , like Sterne , very fond of curious and recondite reading , in which it is not always easy to track him without some research ; but I believe that I have not ...
... writer as Horace , I have appended the Latin text . Moreover , Swift was , like Sterne , very fond of curious and recondite reading , in which it is not always easy to track him without some research ; but I believe that I have not ...
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... writer ancient or modern . This is not literally true , but the instances are not many , and in my notes I have pointed out the lines snatched from Milton , Denham , Butler - the last evidently a great favourite . It seems necessary to ...
... writer ancient or modern . This is not literally true , but the instances are not many , and in my notes I have pointed out the lines snatched from Milton , Denham , Butler - the last evidently a great favourite . It seems necessary to ...
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... write ; The muse and I no more revenge desire , Each line shall stab , shall blast , like daggers and like fire ; Ah , Britain , land of angels ! which of all thy sins , ( Say , hapless isle , although It is a bloody list we know ...
... write ; The muse and I no more revenge desire , Each line shall stab , shall blast , like daggers and like fire ; Ah , Britain , land of angels ! which of all thy sins , ( Say , hapless isle , although It is a bloody list we know ...
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... write heroics next ; For , tragedy , he knew , would lose you quite , And told you so at Will's but t'other night . Thus are the lives of fools a sort of dreams , Rendering shades things , and substances of names ; Such high companions ...
... write heroics next ; For , tragedy , he knew , would lose you quite , And told you so at Will's but t'other night . Thus are the lives of fools a sort of dreams , Rendering shades things , and substances of names ; Such high companions ...
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... write , vast shoals of critics come , And on my verse pronounce their saucy doom ; The Muse like some bright country virgin shows Fallen by mishap among a knot of beaux ; They , in their lewd and fashionable prate , Rally her dress ...
... write , vast shoals of critics come , And on my verse pronounce their saucy doom ; The Muse like some bright country virgin shows Fallen by mishap among a knot of beaux ; They , in their lewd and fashionable prate , Rally her dress ...
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