Selected PoemsCarcanet, 1979 - 95 Seiten A selection of the poetry of John Gay (1685-1732) who was part of the 'association of wits' that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the fallibility of humankind. |
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... walker , in the first person , but who certainly cannot be identified with Gay . ( Gay's correspondence with Swift re- veals that Gay's taste , or lack of taste , for exercise was something of a private joke ) . Everywhere there is ...
... walker , in the first person , but who certainly cannot be identified with Gay . ( Gay's correspondence with Swift re- veals that Gay's taste , or lack of taste , for exercise was something of a private joke ) . Everywhere there is ...
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John Gay Marcus Walsh. 80 85 90 95 May no such vicious Walkers croud the Street , May Providence o'er - shade me with her Wings , While the bold Muse experienc'd Dangers sings . Not that I wander from my native Home , And tempting Perils ...
John Gay Marcus Walsh. 80 85 90 95 May no such vicious Walkers croud the Street , May Providence o'er - shade me with her Wings , While the bold Muse experienc'd Dangers sings . Not that I wander from my native Home , And tempting Perils ...
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... Walkers That Walker , who regardless of his Pace , Turns oft ' to pore upon the Damsel's Face , From Side to Side by thrusting Elbows tost , Shall strike his aking Breast against the Post ; 105 Or Water , dash'd from fishy Stalls ...
... Walkers That Walker , who regardless of his Pace , Turns oft ' to pore upon the Damsel's Face , From Side to Side by thrusting Elbows tost , Shall strike his aking Breast against the Post ; 105 Or Water , dash'd from fishy Stalls ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Urheberrecht | |
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adown Aeneid Alexander Pope Ambrose Philips apes Barnstaple Beauty Beggar's Opera Blouzelind Bowzybeus Breast Burthen aid Buxoma Cheek Cloddipole Clown Coaches Crouds Cuddy Dame Dews Doris Dunciad e'er Eclogues ev'ry Eyes Fable fair feast flame flies Fyfield Gay's gen'ral Georgic Hand hard so true hath Heav'n honour hound human imitation John Gay Labour laugh Lobbin Clout Love Maid Melanthe Laura Menston miry moral Morning Muse ne'er never Night nymph o'er parody pastoral Philips plain poem poet poetry Pope Pope's Pow'r produced and published Proeme Rain rais'd reply'd Saloninus Samuel Johnson satire says Scriblerian Scriblerus Club se defendendo Shepherd's Week Shoes Show'rs sing Sire Skies smoaks Song Sparabella Squire stolen love strait Street Swain Sylvia taste thee Theocritus thou thro Tis hard Toil Tongue tread Trivia true a Damsel vent'rous Virgil virtue Walkers Winds Wine Winter's words ye Lasses Youth