 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1882 - 622 pages
...swain, Talks in a high romantic strain : Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends : Or, to compound the business, whether They temper...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold." No lines more unfortunate were ever penned : so much we are bound to allow. To defend them is impossible... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or to compound the business, whether They temper love...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Meantime the mournful Queen of Love Led but a weary life above. She ventures now to leave the skies,... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - English literature - 1884 - 312 pages
...swain Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper...mankind be told : Nor shall the conscious muse unfold.' Like some men of poetic temperament, Swift, it is to be feared, had an inconsiderate habit of insignificant... | |
 | Archaeology - 1885 - 506 pages
...swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or to compound the business, whether They temper love...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold." These lines are a great blot on the beauty of the poem; they are vague, suggestive, flippant, and offensive,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English essays - 1886 - 222 pages
...strain ; Or whether he at last descends To like with less seraphic ends; Or to compound the bus'ness, whether They temper love and books together; Must...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold. Meantime the mournful queen of love Led but a weary life above. She ventures now to leave the skies,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1889 - 460 pages
...swain, Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at lasts descends To act with less seraphic ends, Or, to compound the business, whether They temper...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Meantime the mournful Queen of Love Led but a weary life above. She ventures now to leave the skies,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...that what really occurred at last, what strange compromise cold friendship made with panting love, 11 Must never to Mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold." Among the poems of his latest period must be mentioned The Journal of a Modern Lady (1728); The Lady's... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...that what really occurred at last, what strange compromise cold friendship made with panting love, " Must never to Mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Among the poems of his latest period must be mentiorie6L7/k Journal of a Modern Lady (1728); The Lady's... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...that what really occurred at last, what strange compromise cold friendship made with panting love, " Must never to Mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Among the poems of his latest period must be mentioned The Journal of a Modern Lady (1728); The Lady's... | |
 | James Hay - Authors, Irish - 1891 - 390 pages
...Talks in a high romantick strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphick ends ; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold. That stanza which speaks of the success of her love is new, and it has given rise to much adverse criticism.... | |
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But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends; Or to compound the business, whether They temper love and... 
