 I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship among all men of genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them.  The Works - Стр. 282авторы: Jonathan Swift - 1803Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Jonathan Swift - 1912 - Страниц: 508
...fools, because their knavery does me no hurt in the commerce I have with them, which however I own is more dangerous, though not so troublesome, as that...seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1917 - Страниц: 64
...he believed should hold good men together. " I have often endeavoured," he wrote to Pope, in 1723, " to establish a friendship among all men of genius,...seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - Страниц: 662
...faction has nothing to do, for I suppose Virgil and Horace are equally read by Whigs and Tories. . . • I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship...seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - Страниц: 678
...faction has nothing to do, for I suppose Virgil and Horace are equally read by Whigs and Tories. . . . I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship...seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1926 - Страниц: 396
...fools, because their knavery does me no hurt in the commerce I have with them, which however I own is more dangerous, though not so troublesome, as that...seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets ' in the time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - Страниц: 400
...informs us, that the vast 1. For what Boswell calls "the embryo" of this number, see Life, 1.2o6-o7. 2. "I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship...seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them." Letter to Pope, 2o Sept., 1723 (Correspondence,... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - Страниц: 260
...Churchill and Satirical Poetry, 1750-1800 (Seattle, Wash., 1979). 2. Swift wrote Pope on 20 September 1723: "I have often endeavoured to establish a Friendship...have it done, they are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the world before them" (The Correspondence of... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - Страниц: 204
...the strengths and limitations of their work. Swift's most famous remark in this vein is well known: "I have often endeavoured to establish a Friendship...have it done. They are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the World before them" (20 Sept. 1723, 2.465).... | |
 | Eve Tavor Bannet, Professor Eve Tavor Bannet - 2005 - Страниц: 9
...Fools, because their Knavery does me no Hurt in the Commerce I have with them, which however I own is more dangerous, though not so troublesome, as that...Friendship among all Men of Genius, and would fain have done it: they are seldom above three or four Contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...desire to claim a similar authority for his friendships made explicit a tendency enunciated by Swift: I have often endeavoured to establish a Friendship...seldom above three or four Contemporaries and, if they could be united, would drive the world before them. (Con, n, p. 199) For Pope the desire to establish... | |
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