The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
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[Footnote 1: "I have been told, that Dryden having perused these verses,
said, 'Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet;' and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden."--Johnson in his "Life of Swift."--_W. E. B._ In Malone's "Life of Dryden," p. 241, it is stated that John Dunton, the original projector of the Athenian Society, in his "Life and Errours," 1705, mentions this Ode, "which being an ingenious poem, was prefixed to the fifth Supplement of the Athenian Mercury."--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 2: The Ode I writ to the king in Ireland.--_Swift_.] [Footnote 3: The floating island, which, by order of Neptune, became fixed for the use of Latona, who there brought forth Apollo and Diana. See Ovid, "Metam.," vi, 191, etc.--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 4: Gyges, who, thanks to the possession of a golden ring, which made him invisible, put Candaules to death, married his widow, and mounted the throne, 716 B.C. See the story in Cicero, "De Off.," iii, 9.--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 5: Proteus. See Ovid, "Fasti," lib. i.--_W. E. B._] TO MR. CONGREVE WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER, 1693 |
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