stage-processions

Updated: May 8, 2025

Swift, from his peculiar relation to two successive ministries, was in a position to know all that they knew, and perhaps, as a recognized place-broker, even more than they knew, of the selfish servility of men. He had seen the men who figure so imposingly in the stage-processions of history too nearly.

James Russell Lowell - The Function of the Poet and Other Essays