 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; x . . I . tuld, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Prom 'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift.' As Rochefoucault... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 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.' APPENDIX F (PAGE 34) Wood surrendered his patent in 1725. His halfpence might have been better than... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 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); The Lady's... | |
 | Reginald Blunt - Chelsea (London, England) - 1921 - 360 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." In his letters to her we get phrases such as " you should not have come by Wantage [where she seems... | |
 | Vanessa, Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1921 - 230 pages
...820 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 books together, 825 Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Meantime the mournful queen... | |
 | Vanessa, Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1921 - 236 pages
...820 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 books together, 825 Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Meantime the mournful queen... | |
 | Lily Adams Beck - Historical fiction - 1922 - 306 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. I knew the meaning of that passage where others guesst. I read it by the light of a sunset many years... | |
 | Lily Adams Beck - Historical fiction - 1922 - 306 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. I knew the meaning of that passage where others guesst. I read it by the light of a sunset many years... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 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); The Lady's... | |
 | American literature - 1925 - 806 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. The lines very fairly reflect the actual situation, and Vanessa specifically absolves Swift from being... | |
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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... 
