 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 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); Tlie Lady's... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 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 mentioned The Journal of a Modern Lady (1728); The Lady's... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - Authors, Irish - 1893 - 388 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." The worst that can be said of the above passage is that, being intended for Vanessa's ear alone, it... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 400 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 404 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 muct we are bound to allow. To defend them is impossible... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - English letters - 1897 - 304 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." l These last lines undo the effect of all that precedes them, and leave a decidedly unpleasant taste... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 350 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." The poet Tickell, who was Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland, had also written to Swift about... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 340 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." The poet Tickell, who was Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland, had also written to Swift about... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1901 - 682 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." Such is the poem as we now have it, written, it must be remembered, for Vanessa's private perusal.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...high romantic strain ; Jonathan Swift Or whether he at last descends Toad with less seraphic ends ; Still gnawing, and the pleasant phantom curse. Thus...Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays Mat From 'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift.' As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew From nature, I Ijelieve them... | |
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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... 
