 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 692 pages
...imperfect; the real line, as we have it in the "Dunciad," i. 22, in the apostrophe to Swift, runs thus : — "Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair." As if over-anxious to distinguish himself from the purblind vulgar, Coleridge not seldom... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier,...serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy grieved country's copper chains unbind ; From thy Boeotia... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier,...serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy grieved country's copper chains unbind ; From thy Bceotia... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1897 - 682 pages
...LINES ON SWIFT. O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean,1 Drapier,'' Bickerstaff," or Gulliver!4 Whether thou choose Cervantes" serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais" easy-chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy grieved country's copper chains unbind... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 636 pages
...in the Dunciad, I., 19-23 :— O thou ! whatever title please thine ear. Dean, Drapier, Biekerstuff or Gulliver ! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Kab'lais' easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind — ! Page 84, line 24. " Election Entertainment."... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 370 pages
...with sometimes taking Cervantes' serious air—" " I remember the passage," cries the author : " O thou, whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver ; Whether you take Cervantes, serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais, easy chair — " " You are right,... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 350 pages
...more, on account of its ethos, its indoles. Pope, in dedicating to Swift the Dunciad, writes — " Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair." The lines are singularly infelicitous. The Castilian gravity of Cervantes is one thing. The British... | |
 | Milburg Francisco Mansfield, Blanche McManus Mansfield, Blanche McManus - Ireland - 1904 - 322 pages
...short lines: "... Whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff or Gulliver ! Whether you choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy grieved country's copper chains unbind." As the river... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 pages
...anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, dulness never dies. O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier,...serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy grieved country's copper chains unbind; From thy Boeotia... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1908 - 562 pages
...pole ; Or under southern skies exalt their sails, Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales. (5) O Thou, whatever title please thine ear. Dean, Drapier,...serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy grieved country's copper chains unbind ; From thy Boeotia... | |
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O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff or Gulliver ! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais... 
