...assented to her desire, when, to his astonishment, he received from her a frank confession of her love. " Vanessa not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four." Up to this time the conduct of Swift can hardly be taxed with any graver fault than imprudence, but...

...Contrast these lines with the portrait he draws of Vanessa in the matchless poem he wrote for her : Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of...advanced in years ; She fancies music in his tongue, No further looks, but thinks him young. What mariner is not afraid To venture on a ship decayed? What...

...Swift indeed expressed surprise that Vanessa should have conceived such a passion. He writes : — " Vanessa, not in years a score Dreams of a gown of...charms can find In eyes with reading almost blind." And, again, he tells us that, " His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his...

...Swift indeed expressed surprise that Vanessa should have conceived such a passion. He writes : — " Vanessa, not in years a score Dreams of a gown of forty-four. Imaginary charms can lind In eyes with reading almost blind." And, again, he tells us that, "His conduct might have made...

...to him. A couplet in the poem seems to fix 1712 as the year of its composition. He tells how — " Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four." He was forty-four in the autumn of that year. If my supposition is true the poem must have been revised...

...to him. A couplet in the poem seems to fix 1712 as the year of its composition. He tells how — , " Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four." He was forty-four in the autumn of that year. If my supposition is true the poem must have been revised...

...to the point that pierc'd her breast, And, borne directly to the heart, With pains unknown increas'd s Esprits ; such things as are our upper-gallery audience...of wit, prefer a quibble, a conceit, an epigram, Declin'd in health, advanc'd in years. She fancies music in his tongue ; Nor further looks, but thinks...

...to the point that pierc'd her breast, And, borne directly to the heart, With pains unknown increas'd ng I come ; No matter what beauties I saw in my Declin'd in health, advanc'd in years. She fancies music in his tongue ; Nor further looks, but thinks...

...woman had already gone over to Ireland for the purpose of living near him and seeing him often : " Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four ; Imaginary charms can fiud In eyes with reading almost blind." t It was some time before Swift saw the state of her feelings,...

...strength A dart of such prodigious length, It pierced the feeble volume through, And deep transfixed her bosom too. Some lines more moving than the rest,...in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four, r • - Imaginary charms can find In eyes with reading almost blind : Cadenus now no more appears Declined...