Selected PoemsCarcanet, 1979 - 95 pages 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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... pride , becomes a butterfly , a spaniel , a toad . And one thinks especially of Swift's impossible and inhuman extremes of rational horses and bestial apes in the fourth voyage of Gulliver's Travels . In such a context , the fable ...
... pride , becomes a butterfly , a spaniel , a toad . And one thinks especially of Swift's impossible and inhuman extremes of rational horses and bestial apes in the fourth voyage of Gulliver's Travels . In such a context , the fable ...
Page 44
... Pride and Luxury her Sons possess'd : Coaches and Chariots yet unfashion'd lay , Nor late invented Chairs perplex'd the Way : 105 Then the proud Lady trip'd along the Town , And tuck'd up Petticoats secur'd her Gown , Her rosie Cheek ...
... Pride and Luxury her Sons possess'd : Coaches and Chariots yet unfashion'd lay , Nor late invented Chairs perplex'd the Way : 105 Then the proud Lady trip'd along the Town , And tuck'd up Petticoats secur'd her Gown , Her rosie Cheek ...
Page 92
... pride With confutation ne'er comply'd , Let's state the case , and then refer The knotty point : For taste may err . As thus he spoke , from out the mold An Earth - worm , huge of size , unroll'd His monstrous length . They strait agree ...
... pride With confutation ne'er comply'd , Let's state the case , and then refer The knotty point : For taste may err . As thus he spoke , from out the mold An Earth - worm , huge of size , unroll'd His monstrous length . They strait agree ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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