Jonathan Swift: A Critical BiographyCape, 1954 - 508 pàgines |
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Pàgina 42
... Congreve was nearly three years younger than Swift . Swift was still obscure ; Congreve a sudden bright star . It was a trying situation , and Swift had a struggle to adjust to it . The effort makes the poem , in parts , very obscure ...
... Congreve was nearly three years younger than Swift . Swift was still obscure ; Congreve a sudden bright star . It was a trying situation , and Swift had a struggle to adjust to it . The effort makes the poem , in parts , very obscure ...
Pàgina 43
... Congreve's world from Swift's . And let him not imagine that Swift is praising him in order to display his own talent . But Congreve's merit is such that it softened the Muse's thunder into praise . Thus it conspires with Swift's ...
... Congreve's world from Swift's . And let him not imagine that Swift is praising him in order to display his own talent . But Congreve's merit is such that it softened the Muse's thunder into praise . Thus it conspires with Swift's ...
Pàgina 44
... Congreve the serious advice he meant to give ; but he gives him a passage from his ode to a Poet - all indeed that ... Congreve's ; he pities Congreve for having to conciliate the favour of a worthless audience , who insolently pretend ...
... Congreve the serious advice he meant to give ; but he gives him a passage from his ode to a Poet - all indeed that ... Congreve's ; he pities Congreve for having to conciliate the favour of a worthless audience , who insolently pretend ...
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Addison admiration appears behaviour believe Bishop Bolingbroke Bridget Johnson Brobdingnag Cadenus Carteret CHAPTER Church Church of England common Congreve Corr Court Dean Deanery death Delany desire Drapier Dublin Duchess Duchess of Somerset England English favour fortune friends friendship genius give Godolphin Gulliver Halfpence Harley Harley's hath heart honour hope Houyhnhnms human Ireland Irish Jonathan Swift Kilroot King knew Lady Giffard Laracor letter lived London Lord Lord Treasurer marriage married mind Ministry Moor Park moral nation nature never Oxford pamphlet Parliament party passion peace perhaps person poem political Pope pretend pride Queen reason refused religion reply Sheridan Sir William Temple Somers Somerset spirit Steele Stella Struldbrugs Swift wrote Tale Tatler tell Temple Temple's things thought tion told took Tory true Vanessa Vanhomrigh Varina verses Wharton Whig William woman writing Yahoos