...hole I leave, shrinking like a silent-movie fade . . . Poor POPE will grieve a Month; and GAY A Weel(; and ARBUTHNOT a Day. ST. JOHN himself will scarce forbear, To bite his Pen, and drop a Tear. (Jonathan Swift, "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift") In my car, I'm unusually cautious: the "fatal"...

...shrinking like a silent-movie fade . . . Poor POPE will grieve a Month; and GAY A Week; and ARBUTHNOTa Day. ST. JOHN himself will scarce forbear, To bite his Pen, and drop a Tear. (Jonathan Swift, "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift") In my car, I'm unusually cautious: the "fatal"...

...Deserts of vast eternity. The poem by Swift, though primarily satirical, has passages of editation: Indifference clad in wisdom's guise All fortitude...can stony bowels melt, In those who never pity felt? The trochaic tetrameter, on the other hand, is capable of no such variegation. Swift is probably the...

...those he loves will grieve, but: The rest will give a Shrug and cry, I'm sorry; but we all must dye. Indifference clad in Wisdom's Guise, All Fortitude...In those who never Pity felt; When We are lash'd, 7% kiss the Rod; Resigning to the Will of God. [n. 211-18] [ The Poems of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold...

...in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. 1 1344 'Verses on the Death ofDr Swift' ur reason is our law. 7625 Paradise Lost Her rash hand in evil hour For 1 1 345 'Verses on the Death ofDr Swift' Yet malice never was his aim: He lashed the vice, but spared...

...the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week; and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce...stony bowels melt, In those who never pity felt; When tae are lash'd, they kiss the rod, Resigning to the will of God. The fools, my juniors by a year, Are...