The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 第 17 卷J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... truth , that there is hardly any human creature past child- hood , but at one time or other has had some poetical evacuation , and , no question , was much the better for it in his health ; so true is the saying , nascimur poëta ...
... truth , that there is hardly any human creature past child- hood , but at one time or other has had some poetical evacuation , and , no question , was much the better for it in his health ; so true is the saying , nascimur poëta ...
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... clear but himself . And since the great art of all poetry is to mix truth with fiction , in order to join the credible with the surprising , our " our author shall produce the credible , by painting OF SINKING IN POETRY . II.
... clear but himself . And since the great art of all poetry is to mix truth with fiction , in order to join the credible with the surprising , our " our author shall produce the credible , by painting OF SINKING IN POETRY . II.
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... truth of our assertion , that the bathos is an art , and that the genius of no mortal whatever , following the mere ideas of nature , and unassisted with an habitual , nay laborious peculiarity of thinking , could arrive at images so ...
... truth of our assertion , that the bathos is an art , and that the genius of no mortal whatever , following the mere ideas of nature , and unassisted with an habitual , nay laborious peculiarity of thinking , could arrive at images so ...
第 42 頁
... truths I now prepare to tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewel ¶ . Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical idea ; as where a ship set on fire owes all the spirit of the bathos to one choice word , that ends the ...
... truths I now prepare to tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewel ¶ . Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical idea ; as where a ship set on fire owes all the spirit of the bathos to one choice word , that ends the ...
第 101 頁
... truth , and cover designs which may be detrimental to the public . In particular , it has been their custom of late to vent their political spleen in allegory and fable . If an honest believing nation is to be made a jest of , we have a ...
... truth , and cover designs which may be detrimental to the public . In particular , it has been their custom of late to vent their political spleen in allegory and fable . If an honest believing nation is to be made a jest of , we have a ...
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第 417 頁 - 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...
第 112 頁 - 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. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
第 115 頁 - Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
第 113 頁 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
第 117 頁 - Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: The flutt'ring fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her fav'rite Lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
第 416 頁 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
第 111 頁 - 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.
第 416 頁 - But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year...
第 59 頁 - THE DESCRIPTIONS. For a tempest.—" Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightning, and of thunder, the loudest you can, quantum sufficit.
第 144 頁 - John was quick, and understood his business very well; but no man alive was more careless in looking into his accounts, or more cheated by partners, apprentices, and servants.