 | Jonathan Swift - 1899 - 340 sivua
...The lines particularly dwelt 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 please her swain Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1899 - 350 sivua
...The lines particularly dwelt 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 please her swain Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 710 sivua
...Vanessa took him at his word, and said she would now be tutor, though he was not apt to learn : — "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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 sivua
...is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. 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 ; Jonathan Swift Or whether... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 sivua
...the following lines in Cadenus and Vanessa (id. xiv. 452) he covers himself with suspicion : — ' 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... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1911 - 388 sivua
...wit." When, therefore, he describes the making of Vanessa who loved him and perhaps won his love — But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet — he gives her not only beauty, but what was For manly bosoms chiefly fit, The seeds of knowledge,... | |
 | 1914 - 302 sivua
...encouraged this great passion. It is as true to-day as when he penned the lines in Cadenus and Vanessa, " But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet." The world does not know, and never will know, the secrets of the life of that clever, handsome, and... | |
 | Reginald Blunt - 1921 - 360 sivua
...proposing that " the nymph will have her turn to be The tutor ; and the pupil he," come these enigmatic lines : " 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... | |
 | Vanessa, Jonathan Swift - 1921 - 230 sivua
...wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, 815 And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain 820 Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at last descends... | |
 | Vanessa, Jonathan Swift - 1921 - 236 sivua
...wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, 815 And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain 820 Talks in a high romantic strain, Or whether he at last descends... | |
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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... 
