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Ch. XIL
RIDICULE,
9
That {hall infuse eternal spring ,
And everlasting ssourilhing :
Drink ev’ry letter on’t in stuni ,
And make it briik champaign become.
Where-e’er you tread, your foot (hall let
The primrose and the violet ;
All spices , perfumes , and sweet powders,
Shall borrow from your breath their odours ;
Nature her charter (hall renew
And take all lives of things from you ;
The world depend upon your eye
And when you srown upon it, die.
Only our loves (hall hill survive ,
New worlds and natures to outlive ;
And like to herald’s moons , remain
All crescents , without change or wane,
Hudibras , part 2. canto 2.
Irony turns things into ridicule in a peculiar
manner : it consilis in laughing at a man under
disguise of appearing to praise 01' speak well of
him. Swift affords us many illusirious examples
of that species of ridicule. Take the following.
By these methods, in a few weeks , there Harts up
many a writer, capable of managing the profoundest
and most universal subjeds. For what though hishead
be empty, provided his common-place book be full !
Andisyou will bate him but the circumstances of me-
thod , and style , and grammar, and invention; allow
him but the common privileges os transeribing srom
RIDICULE,
9
That {hall infuse eternal spring ,
And everlasting ssourilhing :
Drink ev’ry letter on’t in stuni ,
And make it briik champaign become.
Where-e’er you tread, your foot (hall let
The primrose and the violet ;
All spices , perfumes , and sweet powders,
Shall borrow from your breath their odours ;
Nature her charter (hall renew
And take all lives of things from you ;
The world depend upon your eye
And when you srown upon it, die.
Only our loves (hall hill survive ,
New worlds and natures to outlive ;
And like to herald’s moons , remain
All crescents , without change or wane,
Hudibras , part 2. canto 2.
Irony turns things into ridicule in a peculiar
manner : it consilis in laughing at a man under
disguise of appearing to praise 01' speak well of
him. Swift affords us many illusirious examples
of that species of ridicule. Take the following.
By these methods, in a few weeks , there Harts up
many a writer, capable of managing the profoundest
and most universal subjeds. For what though hishead
be empty, provided his common-place book be full !
Andisyou will bate him but the circumstances of me-
thod , and style , and grammar, and invention; allow
him but the common privileges os transeribing srom