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 of Jonathan Swift - Halaman 202oleh Jonathan Swift - 1741Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
| Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 halaman
...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." Letter to Pope, 2o Sept., 1723 (Correspondence, ed. Ball, 111.175). bodies which constitute the universe,... | |
| W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 halaman
...among all Men of Genius, and would fain 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 Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams [Oxford, 1963-65], II, 465). 3. Irvin Ehrenpreis's... | |
| Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 halaman
...among all Men of Genius, and would fain 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). This passage, sometimes thought affirmatively cheerful, comes in fact from... | |
| Eve Tavor Bannet, Professor Eve Tavor Bannet - 2005 - 9 halaman
...endeavoured to establish a Friendship among all Men of Genius, and would fain have done it: they are seldom above three or four Contemporaries, and if they could...would drive the World before them. I think it was so among the Poets in the Time of Augustus; but Envy and Party, and Pride, have hindered it among us.... | |
| Pat Rogers - 2007
...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. (Con, n, p. 199) For Pope the desire to establish around himself a circle of virtuous men, to correspond... | |
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