 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pages
...such a jealous fit I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!' I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and showed its use. St. John, as well as Pultney, knows, That I had some repute for... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 pages
...a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend. . . . And then the other side of the picture. The Dean is dead, and the wits and politicians and courtiers... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 pages
...a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend. . . . And then the other side of the picture. The Dean is dead, and the wits and politicians and courtiers... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 334 pages
...a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend. . . . And then the other side of the picture. The Dean is dead, and the wits and politicians and courtiers... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 pages
...a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend. . . . And then the other side of the picture. The Dean is dead, and the wits and politicians and courtiers... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1921 - 232 pages
...jealous fit, I cry, "Plague take him and his wit." I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way; Arbuthnot is no more my friend Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce ; Refined it first, and showed its use. And so on down to the lines: — If with such talents Heaven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own hum'rous biting way. Arbuthnot...irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and shew'd its use. St. John, as well as Pultney, knows That I had some repute for prose;... | |
 | John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, Herman Teerink - 1925 - 280 pages
...the quotation above on p. 66. verses which the latter wrote on his own death in Nov. 1731, he said : "Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and show'd its use." *) from which we see that he considered his friend, who was... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 pages
...of 1812. Irony. In the well-known " Verses on his own Death" Swift humorously asserts that Arbuchnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and showed its use. This, even as a bit of humorous exaggeration, is an absurd claim.... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 pages
...I can do in six ; It gives me such a jealous Fit, I cry " Pox take him and his Wit ! " I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own hum'rous biting Way. Arbuthnot...Irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first and show'd its Use. St. John, as well as Pultney, knows That I had some Repute for Prose ;... | |
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In Pope I cannot read a line But, with a sigh, I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit. 
