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... Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton - 70 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1905全文表示 - この書籍について
| Emile Pons - 1925 - 448 ページ
...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 - 1927 - 288 ページ
...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 - 1927 - 286 ページ
...and attitude. In the poem "Cadenus and Vanessa" in which this philandering was recorded, Swift wrote: But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret...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 the... | |
| Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull - 1927 - 540 ページ
...naturligvis ikke love nogetsomhelst — med andre ord: fralægger sig alt ansvar på forhånd! — But what Success Vanessa met Is to the World a Secret yet! siges der tilsidst — : om hun, for at behage ham, «taler i høje ro* 1 Swift fyldte 44 år i nov.... | |
| Shane Leslie - 1928 - 384 ページ
...the British Museum love of truth, some mocker clad in mystery added the fatal and fantastic lines: "But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret...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... | |
| 1922 - 942 ページ
...vein, he smiled and looked pleased and so it passed. But again and yet again I conned the lines: — 'T is to the world a secret yet Whether the nymph to...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 ページ
...he smiled and looked pleased and so it passed. But again and yet again I conned the lines : — 'T is to the world a secret yet Whether the nymph to...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 love... | |
| Christopher Fox - 2003 - 306 ページ
...she should be content with that. But the ending is deliberately and tantalizingly unclear. Who won? But what Success Vanessa met, Is to the World a Secret...Whether the Nymph, to please her Swain, Talks in a high Romantick Strain; Or whether he at last descends To like with less Seraphick Ends; Or, to compound... | |
| Louise Barnett - 2006 - 238 ページ
...Stella at Woodpark also merits comparison with the lack of 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... | |
| Ernest Augustus Boyd - 1927 - 288 ページ
...attitude. In the poem "Cadenus and Vanessa" in which this philandering was recorded, Swift wrote : But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret...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 the... | |
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