 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 էջ
...vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed, or never exerted. It is of a mode...written. " In his other works is found an equable tenor of easy language, which rather trickles than flows. His delight was in simplicity. That he has... | |
 | 1914 - 302 էջ
...images and vivacity of diction, such as he never afterward possessed or exerted in like manner. The work is of a mode so distinct and peculiar that it must be considered by itself. I need not tell readers of Swift that it is a most bitter satire on the three great divisions of the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 486 էջ
...vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed, or never exerted. It is of a mode...not true of any thing else which he has written.' All doubt is now laid to rest. There is Swift's own letter about the Tale ; there are the recurrent... | |
 | Emile Pons - 1925 - 448 էջ
...vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed, or never exerted. It is of a mode...considered by itself ; what is true of that, is not true of anything else which he has written ». * Ibid. : « We are glad to get rid of Jack's aversion to bag... | |
 | Steve Benson - 1988 - 228 էջ
...flows His delight was in the chivalric tournament and the scholastic disputation which he afterwards never possessed or never exerted It is of a mode so...distinct and peculiar that it must be considered by every man like Hildebert of Lavardin as an elegaic farewell to the past rather than the annunciation... | |
 | Susan Glover - 2006 - 240 էջ
...Clarendon, 1958), 231. 3. Most readers can sympathize with Samuel Johnson's puzzlement over this text: "It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar that it must be considered by itself" (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, vol. 3 [Oxford: Clarendon, 1905],... | |
 | 1845 - 826 էջ
...by him. " It exhibits," says the great critic, " a richness of mind, a copiousness of images, and a vivacity of diction, such as he afterward never possessed...considered by itself; what is true of that is not true of anything else which he has written." — Lives of the Poets, Vol. II. p. 199. Absurd ! There never... | |
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His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed, or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar,... 
