 | Emile Pons - 1925 - 448 pages
...rectification des perspectives. 1 Or, to compound the business, whether They temper books and love together, Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Cf. infra. Livre IV. * Monck-Mason en particulier fut le premier à tirer parti du précieux essai... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 288 pages
...swain, 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... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - American literature - 1927 - 286 pages
...swain, 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... | |
 | Shane Leslie - Biography & Autobiography - 1928 - 384 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." Sometime in her earthly state Stella was to read these lines. With publication Vanessa's secret no... | |
 | American essays - 1922 - 942 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... | |
 | 1922 - 1416 pages
...swain Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at hist 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... | |
 | Christopher Fox - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 306 pages
...Talks in a high Romantick Strain; Or whether he at last descends To like with less Seraphick Ends; Or, to compound the Business, whether They temper...Mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. (lines 818-27) The conscious Muse did eventually unfold the story, however, in releasing before the... | |
 | Louise Barnett - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 238 pages
...narrative closure in Cadenus and Vanessa: But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet: Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold. (CP 151) Had Vanessa pondered these lines, she must have realized that Swift never intended to acknowledge... | |
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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... 
