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Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle

Book by Algernon Charles Swinburne · 4 quotes · Bigger, Frogs, Grows

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Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle Quotes

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.”

“To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.”

“The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.”