 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...pastry-cook's. 164 SWIFT AND THE DEISTS CHAP. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste ; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past; The town has got a better taste; A place in London, where old books are sold.—DUBLIN En. I... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste ; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Clarence Marsh Case - Sociology - 1924 - 1026 pages
...shop, on the farm, about the household there is always some one who has the knack of doing the thing. " The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack of rhyme," says Swift, and there is no doubt that this is the quality which in the higher pursuits... | |
 | W. Gückel - English philology - 1925 - 134 pages
...auch 'my hard-laboured poem' I, 328 und bei Pope). Sw. hat seine Reimkunst für gelungen gehalten: 'The Dean was famous in his time And had a kind of knack at rhyme' (1731; I, 255). Eine große Zahl von Reimen auf französische und lateinische Wörter beweist das Gegenteil:... | |
 | W. Gückel, E. Günther - 1925 - 132 pages
...auch 'my hard-laboured poem ' I, 328 und bei Pope). Sw. hat seine Reimkunst für gelungen gehalten: 'The Dean was famous in his time And had a kind of knack at rhyme' (1731; I, 255). Eine große Zahl von Reimen auf französische und lateinische Wörter beweist das Gegenteil... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - English poetry - 1926 - 224 pages
...Last Monday to the Pastry Cook's. To fancy, they could live a Year ! I find, you're but a Stranger here. The Dean was famous in his Time, And had a kind of Knack at Rhime. His way of Writing now is past : The Town has got a better Taste ; I keep no antiquated Stuff,... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1928 - 280 pages
...books Last Monday to the pastrycook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past, The town has got a better taste. " ' Enough has beeii transcribed to show Swift's art in this... | |
 | Folklore - 1895 - 1132 pages
...unerfreulich witzelnder und burschikoser Ton beliebt, wie er sich hier breit macht. Wenn Swift einmal sugt: „The dean was famous in his time and had a kind of knack of rhymett, so giebt dieser Witz dem Verf. gleich Anlass, zu erklären, alle Genialität bestehe nur... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...Books, 'Last Monday to the Pastry-cooks. 'To fancy they cou'd live a Year! 'I find you're but a Stranger here. 'The Dean was famous in his Time; 'And had a...Kind of Knack at Rhyme: 'His way of Writing now is past; 'The Town hath got a better Taste: 'I keep no antiquated Stuff; 'But, spick and span I have enough.... | |
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To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme : His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste. I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I... 
