Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... Swift , " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents , nor a good one who mistook them . " Every day brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying ; but the best com- mentary that we remember is the ...
... Swift , " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents , nor a good one who mistook them . " Every day brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying ; but the best com- mentary that we remember is the ...
Pagina 27
... Swift , tortured by disappointed ambition , by remorse , and by the approaches of madness , sought for amusement and repose . Doctor Delany had long been dead . His widow , nobly descended , eminently accomplished , and retaining , in ...
... Swift , tortured by disappointed ambition , by remorse , and by the approaches of madness , sought for amusement and repose . Doctor Delany had long been dead . His widow , nobly descended , eminently accomplished , and retaining , in ...
Pagina 77
... is the Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies ; for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humour which many years later en- livened thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 77.
... is the Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies ; for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humour which many years later en- livened thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 77.
Pagina 78
... Swift boasted that he was never known to steal a hint ; and he certainly owed as little to his predecessors as any modern writer . Yet we cannot help suspecting that he borrowed , perhaps unconsciously , one of the happiest touches in ...
... Swift boasted that he was never known to steal a hint ; and he certainly owed as little to his predecessors as any modern writer . Yet we cannot help suspecting that he borrowed , perhaps unconsciously , one of the happiest touches in ...
Pagina 80
... swift of pace , And swifter far of wing , a monster vast And dreadful . Look , how many plumes are placed On her huge corpse , so many waking eyes Stick underneath , and , which may stranger rise In the report , as many tongues she ...
... swift of pace , And swifter far of wing , a monster vast And dreadful . Look , how many plumes are placed On her huge corpse , so many waking eyes Stick underneath , and , which may stranger rise In the report , as many tongues she ...
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