 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 496 pages
...a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was borne to introduce, Refined it first, and showed its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That... | |
 | Friedrich Dedekind - Comparative literature - 1904 - 294 pages
...mit der Charakteristik überein, die Swift in On the Death of Dr. Swift i ) von seinen Werken gibt: Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was horn to introduce, Refined it first, and show'd its use. Und weiter sagt er von sich: As with a moral... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - English literature - 1905 - 436 pages
...jealous fit, I cry "plague take him and his wit." I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way ; Arbuthnot is no more my friend Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce ; Refined it first, and showed its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...such a jealous fit I cry, "Pox take him and his witl" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pultney, knows That I had some repute for... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...take him and his will" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. JONATHAN SWIFT 217 Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pultney, knows That I had some repute for... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!' I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and showed its use. St. John, as well as Pultney, knows That I had some repute for... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 pages
...him stop my view." 2 Var. "I ask but for an inch at most." 3 Var. " Why must I be outdone by Gay." Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and shew'd its use. St. John, as well as Pultney, knows (>Q That I had some repute for prose;... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - History - 1913 - 370 pages
...jealous fit, I cry, ' Plague take him and his wit.' I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way ; Arbuthnot is no more my friend Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce ; Refined it first, and showed its use." And so on down to the lines : " If with such talents Heaven... | |
 | Charles Whibley - Authors, Irish - 1917 - 64 pages
...statement, and resents it, if his idle brain be confused. Swift was frankly conscious of his gift : Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and shew'd its use. Thus he wrote with perfect truth. He was born to introduce irony, but... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...Arbuthnot's only title to a high place in English literature. Swift recognised him as his rival:— " Arbuthnot is no more my friend Who dares to irony pretend, Which 1 was born to introduce, Refined it first, and showed its use." It was indeed for his personal qualities—the... | |
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In Pope I cannot read a line But, with a sigh, I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit. 
