The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, Volumen2W. Pickering, 1833 |
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The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life, Volumen2 Jonathan Swift,John Mitford Vista completa - 1853 |
The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life, Volumen2 Jonathan Swift,John Mitford Vista completa - 1853 |
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Æsop beauty Behold better BIRTH-DAY Cadenus call'd Carteret Chloe court dame damn'd Dean DEAN SWIFT Dean's DELANY delight design'd divine doctor 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 hand head hear heart honour JONATHAN SMEDLEY Jove kind 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 write youth
Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 104 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Página 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.
Página 85 - To hear his out-of-fashion wit ? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. Faith ! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades once a quarter. In half the time he talks them round There must another set be found.
Página 97 - LIBERTY was all his cry; for her he stood prepar'd to die; for her he boldly stood alone; for her he oft" expos'd his own. Two kingdoms, just as faction led, had set a price upon his head ; but not a traitor could be found, to sell him for six hundred pound.
Página 54 - Fluttering spread thy purple pinions, Gentle Cupid o'er my heart ; I, a slave in thy dominions ; Nature must give way to art. Mild Arcadians, ever blooming, Nightly nodding o'er your flocks, See my weary days consuming All beneath yon flowery rocks.
Página 97 - He follow'd David's lesson just, In princes never put thy trust. And, would you make him truly sour; Provoke him with a slave in power...
Página 98 - And, oh ! how short are human schemes ! Here ended all our golden dreams. What St. John's skill in state affairs, What Ormond's valour, Oxford's cares...
Página 86 - In such a case they talk in tropes, And by their fears express their hopes. Some great misfortune to portend No enemy can match a friend. With all the kindness they profess, The merit of a lucky guess (When daily How-d'ye's come of course, And servants answer : ' Worse and worse ! ') Would please them better than to tell, That, ' God be praised ! the dean is well. ' Then he who prophesied the best, Approves his foresight to the rest : ' You know I always feared the worst, And often told you so at...