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Updated: May 19, 2025
There is not a smile for us in "Flecno," but it is more than possible to smile over this "Character of Holland"; at the excluded ocean returning to play at leap- frog over the steeples; at the rise of government and authority in Holland, which belonged of right to the man who could best invent a shovel or a pump, the country being so leaky:
There is not a smile for us in "Flecno," but it is more than possible to smile over this "Character of Holland"; at the excluded ocean returning to play at leap- frog over the steeples; at the rise of government and authority in Holland, which belonged of right to the man who could best invent a shovel or a pump, the country being so leaky:
You, sir, I am sure, must particularly admire him as an excellent satirist; his "Absalom and Achitophel" is a masterpiece in that way of writing, and his "Mac Flecno" is, I think, inferior to it in nothing but the meanness of the subject. Boileau. Did not you take the model of your "Dunciad" from the latter of those very ingenious satires? Pope.
Marvell, the Puritan, laughed that very laughter at leanness, at hunger, cold, and solitude in the face of the world, and in the name of literature, in one memorable satire. I speak of "Flecno, an English Priest in Rome," wherein nothing is spared not the smallness of the lodging, nor the lack of a bed, nor the scantiness of clothing, nor the fast. "This basso-rilievo of a man "
Marvell, the Puritan, laughed that very laughter at leanness, at hunger, cold, and solitude in the face of the world, and in the name of literature, in one memorable satire. I speak of "Flecno, an English Priest in Rome," wherein nothing is spared not the smallness of the lodging, nor the lack of a bed, nor the scantiness of clothing, nor the fast. "This basso-rilievo of a man "
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