 To hear his out-of-fashion wit? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. Faith, he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades once a quarter: In half the time he talks them round, There must another set be found.  The Works - Sayfa 241Jonathan Swift tarafından - 1803Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 sayfa
...-fashion wit ? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. 95 Faith ! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades...another set be found. "For poetry he's past his prime: 1oo He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his Muse a... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 sayfa
...-fashion wit ? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. 95 Faith ! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades...another set be found. "For poetry he's past his prime: 1oo He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his Muse a... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 sayfa
...out-of-fashion wit ? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. Faith! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades...an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his Muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen; — But there's no talking... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 sayfa
...out-of-fashion'd wit? But he takes up with younger folks, -"' Who for his wine will bear his jokes. y^Faith ! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades...round, There must another set be found. " For poetry he 's past his prime : )t* He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decay'd, His... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 sayfa
...out-of -fashion wit? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. Faith, he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades...talks them round, There must another set be found." 238 a? /The Battle of the Books, published in 1704. The theme oT\ \Y this work is a well-worn one,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 sayfa
...out-of-fashion wit? ' But he takes up with younger folks, ' Who for his wine will bear his jokes. ' Faith ! he must make his stories shorter, ' Or change his...round, ' There must another set be found' For poetry, he 's past his prime : ' He takes an hour to find a rhyme ; ' His fire is out, his wit decay'd, ' His... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 sayfa
...a story twice, never to hear it more than once. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist Faith! he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist See Disraeli on AGE: OLD AGE Anger Anger is a kind... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sayfa
...power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat; NOBE; NOEC; OxBoLi; PoEL-3; TEP 26 ast-growing sprays That look decayed. His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sayfa
...it. LAURENCE STERNE (1 71 3-68), English aulhor. Tristram Shandy, bk. l.ch. 25H760-67). 1 1 Faith! s the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifferen JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1 745). Anglo-Irish salirisl. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift. W i\v> Monugu... | |
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