The greatest scorn of learned vanity ! (And then how much a nothing is mankind! Whose reason is weigh'd down by popular air, Who, by that, vainly talks of baffling death; And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines... Miscellanies: The Tenth Volume - Página 185de Jonathan Swift - 1745 - 277 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...baffling death, And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, And when you find out these, believe true fame is there, Far above all reward, yet to which all is due; And this.ye great unknown! is only known in you. The juggling sea-god, when by chance trepann'd By some... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 352 páginas
...popular air, Who by that vainly talks of baffling death, And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines right will find...vain as bottling up of wind) And when you find out these, believe true fame is there, Far above all reward, yet to which all is due ; And this, ye great... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 386 páginas
...popular air, Who, by that, vainly talks of baffling death ; And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines right will find...vain as bottling up of wind !) And when you find out these, believe true Fame is there, Far above all reward, yet to which all is due : And this, ye great... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1853 - 388 páginas
...examines right will find To be an art as vain as bottling up of wind !) And when you find out these, believe true Fame is there, Far above all reward,...is due : And this, ye great unknown ! is only known hi you. Tin. The juggling sea-god, when by chance trepann'd By some instructed querist sleeping on... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...argnes yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng. MILTON. — Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 880. Far above all reward, yet to which all is due ; And this, ye great unknown 1 is ouly known to yoa. SWIFT. — Ode to the Athenian Soc. Verse 7. The Unknown has kept his faith.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 páginas
...popular air, Who by that vainly talks of baffling death : And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines right will find To be an art as vain as bottling up of wind.' As in Congreve's Address to Silence, the force of cacophony can no further go. It may be said that... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 páginas
...popular air, Who by that vainly talks of baffling death : And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines right will find To be an art as vain as bottling up of wind.' As in Congreve's Address to Silence, the force of cacophony can no further go. It may be said that... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 páginas
...popular air, Who by that vainly talks of baffling death: And hopes to lengthen life by a transfu ion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines right will find To be an art as vain as bottling up of wind.' As in Congreve's Address to Silence, the force of cacophony can no further go. It may be said that... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 páginas
...popular air, Who, by that, vainly talks of baffling death ; And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines right will find...vain as bottling up of wind :) And when you find out these, believe true Fame is there, Far above all reward, yet to which all is due : And this, ye great... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 634 páginas
...popular air, Who by lhat vainly talks of battling death: And hopes to lengthen life by a transfu ion of breath. Which yet whoe'er examines right will find To be an art as vaiu as bottlmg up of wind.' As in Congreve's Address to Silence, the force of cacophony can no further... | |
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