English Satire and SatiristsJ.M. Dent & sons Limited, 1925 - 325 strán (strany) |
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... Swift , Burns and Byron . The oak reflects light upon the acorn , but from the acorn alone we could never divine the oak . The word satire , then , has more than one meaning . As there is a Comic Spirit , so there is a Satiric Spirit ...
... Swift , Burns and Byron . The oak reflects light upon the acorn , but from the acorn alone we could never divine the oak . The word satire , then , has more than one meaning . As there is a Comic Spirit , so there is a Satiric Spirit ...
Strana vii
... Swift would have been shorn of his power if he had been forced to write his Gulliver in verse , and Thackeray could never have uttered his criticism of the world in a metrical Vanity Fair or Barry Lyndon . The range of the Satiric ...
... Swift would have been shorn of his power if he had been forced to write his Gulliver in verse , and Thackeray could never have uttered his criticism of the world in a metrical Vanity Fair or Barry Lyndon . The range of the Satiric ...
Strana 25
... swift as swallow beis the snale , Quhen Troy agane is biggit fair and new , Scho quhome I lufe sale steidfast be and trew . " If Lydgate was the author of London Lickpenny , which has been commonly attributed to him , but without ...
... swift as swallow beis the snale , Quhen Troy agane is biggit fair and new , Scho quhome I lufe sale steidfast be and trew . " If Lydgate was the author of London Lickpenny , which has been commonly attributed to him , but without ...
Strana 76
... Swift found still prevalent a century later : - " A gentle squire would gladly entertain Into his house some trencher - chapelain ; Some willing man , that might instruct his sons , And that would stand to good conditions . First , that ...
... Swift found still prevalent a century later : - " A gentle squire would gladly entertain Into his house some trencher - chapelain ; Some willing man , that might instruct his sons , And that would stand to good conditions . First , that ...
Strana 101
... Swift afterwards made skilful use . By whomsoever written , the Prognosti- cation is a very amusing burlesque of the pretensions of the astro- logists . Whether it was by Nash or not , the subject at any rate was congenial to him ...
... Swift afterwards made skilful use . By whomsoever written , the Prognosti- cation is a very amusing burlesque of the pretensions of the astro- logists . Whether it was by Nash or not , the subject at any rate was congenial to him ...
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Strana 169 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Strana 65 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Strana 188 - Way of using Books at present, is twofold: Either first, to serve them as some Men do Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail.
Strana 269 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep...
Strana 172 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Strana 220 - Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the Principle of Evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.
Strana 177 - Vellom, and the rest as good For all his Lordship knows, but they are Wood. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look, These shelves admit not any modern book.
Strana 116 - But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.
Strana 22 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Strana 71 - May all be bad ; doubt wisely ; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray ; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is.