...this with envy makes me burst. Thus much may serve by way of proem: Proceed we therefore to our poem. The time is not remote, when I Must by the course...special friends Will try to find their private ends: Tho* it is hardly understood Which way my death can do them good, Yet thus, methinks, I hear 'em speak:...

...Trash. On Poetry : A Rhapsody, 1733 47 Verses on the 'Death of "Dr. Swift Written by Himself: Nov. 1731 THE time is not remote, when I Must by the course...hear them speak : ' See, how the Dean begins to break ! 78 ' Poor gentleman, he droops apace ! " You plainly find it in his face. ' That old vertigo in his...

...this with Envy makes me burst. Thus much may serve by way of Proem : Proceed we therefore to our Poem. The Time is not remote, when I Must by the Course of Nature dye ; My good Companions, never fear ; For though you may mistake a Year, Though your Prognosticks...

...sense of Ireland as a mock kingdom with a mock parliament; and most significantly, his knowledge that "the Time is not remote, when I/ Must by the Course of Nature dye." NOTES 1. Literary Meaning and Augustan Values (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,...

...different topic, Swifts ironic elegy or verse obituary for himself, 'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift': The time is not remote, when I Must by the course...special friends, Will try to find their private ends. Marvell's love poem rises to a metaphysical contemplation of death, still in this same metre: But at...

...can deny. JONATHAN SWIFT (?). 112 Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift Written by Himself: Nov. 1731 VHE time is not remote, when I Must by the course of nature...special friends, Will try to find their private ends: T! Though it is hardly understood, Which way my death can do them good; Yet, thus methinks, I hear...

...he is trying to prove the validity of the schema precisely on the basis of his friends' behaviour: 'When I foresee my special Friends, / Will try to find their private Ends: / Tho' it is hardly understood, / Which way my Death can do them good' (11. 75-80). In what follows,...

...Rochefoucauld that "In the adversity of our best friends, we always find something that does not displease us." THE time is not remote when I Must by the course of...hear them speak: "See how the Dean begins to break! "He recollects not what he says; "He cannot call his friends to mind; "Forgets the place where he last...