 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...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 mentiorie6L7/k Journal of a Modern Lady (1728); The Lady's... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...parts that bring out most strikingly the origin and success of her love : But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantick strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphick ends ; Or, to compound... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...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); Tlie Lady's... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...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... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...enables us to regard them as harmless though somewhat injudiciously put : " But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph to...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold." The worst that can be said of the above passage is that, being intended for Vanessa's ear alone, it... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...advance." Then come the hardest and most disputed lines of all :— " But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold." No lines more unfortunate were ever penned: so much we are bound to allow. To defend them is impossible... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...kind advance." Then come the hardest and most disputed lines of all:— " But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold." We must find another meaning, and it is not hard to do so. Swift had before suggested a mere intellectual... | |
 | 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...reputation, as to save his own",1 the following lines of Cadenns and Vanessa. "But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold." •It is impossible"2 adds Lord Orrery, "to read this cruel hint without great indignation against... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...seems so deplorably ignorant. And then come the final damning lines — " But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold." l These last lines undo the effect of all that precedes them, and leave a decidedly unpleasant taste... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...on by those who " intended it maliciously " were the following : — " But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph to...mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold." The poet Tickell, who was Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland, had also written to Swift about... | |
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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... 
