| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 484 pągines
...cuckoo's note : What bungling, rusty tools, are us'd by fate ! 'Twas in an evil hour to urge my hate, My hate, whose lash just Heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed * ; When man's ill genius to my presence sent This wretch, to rouse rny wrath, for ruin meant ; Who... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 476 pągines
...cuckoo's note : What bungling, rusty tools, are us'd by fate ! 'Twas in an evil hour to urge my hate, My hate, whose lash just Heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed * ; When man's ill genius to my presence sent This wretch, to rouse my wrath, for ruin meant j Who... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pągines
...cuckoo's note : What bungling, rusty tools, are us'd by fate ! 'Tvvas in an evil hour to urge my hate, My hate, whose lash just Heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed * ; When man's ill genius to my presence sent This wretch, to rouse my wrath, for ruin meant; Who in... | |
| 1810 - 438 pągines
...logic, that we must quote the very words lest we be suspected of having sophisticated the record. " My hate, whose lash just Heaven has long decreed,...think that they rather point to something past, than prophesy any thing future. For I reason thus : These lines plainly imply a consciousness of Swift,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 pągines
...cuckoo's note: What bungling, rusty tools, are us'd by fate ! 'Twas in an evil hour to urge my hate. My hate, whose lash just Heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed :* When man's ill genius to my presence sent This wretch, to rouse my wrath, for ruin meant ; Who in... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 832 pągines
...addressed to his friend Congreve, shows traces of his satirical genius. He speaks prophetically of My hate, whose lash just heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed. He reviles a wretched cockney upstart who had stirred his bile, and describes his muse amongst the... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pągines
...his own capacities, and to a forecast of his own future, and of the terrible power he was to wield; " My hate, whose lash just heaven has long decreed, Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed." The praise is well turned and sincere in which he credits Congreve with "a richer vein and cleaner... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 230 pągines
...latest gibberish of the town. This wretched little fop came in an evil hour to provoke Swift's hate, — My hate, whose lash just heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed. And he already applies it with vigour enough to show that with some of the satirist's power he has... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pągines
...own capacities, and to a forecast of his own future, and of the terrible power he was to wield ; " My hate, whose lash just heaven has long decreed, Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed." The praise is well turned and sincere in which he credits Congreve with "a richer vein and cleaner... | |
| 1883 - 886 pągines
...to hate, Be that my motto and my fate," — is the burden of his earliest as of his latest poetry. " My hate, whose lash just heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed !" Alas ! it hurt himself as much as, or even more than, the fools and sinners ; so that at the end,... | |
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