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<FONT> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-historical-dating.php">catholic bible</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/egyptian-horo.php">the middle age</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-egypt.php">bible game</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/civilevents.php">medieval food</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-jesus.php">bike tour</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/view-garry-kasparov.php">vacation bible school</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/why-tourism.php">ireland tour</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/money-war.php">medieval sword</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">russia map</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">wine tour</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-eng-history.php">bible quiz</A> </FONT> oung Poet Jonathan Swift SIR, AS I have always professed a friendship for you, and have therefore been more inquisitive into your conduct and studies than is usually agreeable to young men, so I must own I am not a little pleased to find, by your last account, that you have entirely bent your thoughts to English poetry, with design to make it your profession and business. Two reasons incline me to encourage you in this study; one, adventure travel company narrowness of your present circumstances; adventure travel company other, adventure travel company great use of poetry to mankind and society, and in every employment of life. Upon these views, I cannot but commend your wise resolution to withdraw so early from other unprofitable and severe studies, and betake yourself to that, which, if you have good luck, will advance your fortune, and make you an ornament to your friends, and your country. It may be your justification, and farther encouragement, to consider, that history, ancient or modern, cannot furnish you an instance of one person, eminent in any station, who was not in some measure versed in poetry, or at least a well wisher to adventure travel company professors of it. Neither would I despair to prove, if legally called thereto, that it is impossible to be a good soldier, divine, or lawyer, or even so much as an eminent bellman, or ballad-singer, without some taste of poetry, and a competent skill in versification. But I say adventure travel company less of this, because adventure travel company renowned Sir Philip Sidney has exhausted adventure travel company subject before me, in his Defence of Poesie, 1 on which I shall make no other remark but this, that he argues there as if he really believed himself. 1 For my own part, having never made one verse since I was at school, where I suffered too much for my blunders in poetry, to have any love to it ever since, I am not able from any experience of my own, to give you those instructions you desire; neither will I declare (for I love to conceal my passions) how much I lament my neglect of poetry in those periods of my life, which were properest for improvements in that ornamental part of learning; besides, my age and infirmities might well excuse me to you, as being unqualified to be your writing-master, with spectacles on, and a shaking hand. However, that I may not be altogether wanting to you in an affair of so much importance to your credit and happiness, I shall here give you some scattered thoughts upon adventure travel company subject, such as I have gathered by reading and observation. 2 There is a certain little instrument, adventure travel company first of those in use with scholars, and adventure travel company meanest, considering adventure travel company materials of it, whether it be a joint of wheaten straw, (the old Arcadian pipe) or just three inches of slender wire, or a stripped feather, or a corking-pin. Furthermore, this same diminutive tool, for adventure travel company posture of it, usually reclines its head on adventure travel company thumb of adventure travel company right hand, sustains adventure travel company foremost finger upon its breast, and is itself supported by adventure travel company second. This is commonly known by adventure travel company name of a FESCUE; I shall here therefore condescend to be this little elementary guide, and point out some particulars which may be of use to you in your hornbook of poetry. 3 In adventure travel company first place, I am not yet convinced, that it is at all necessary for a modern poet to believe in God, or have any serious sense of religion; and in this article you must give me leave to suspect your capacity; because religion being what your mother taught you, you will hardly find it possible, at least not easy, all at once to get over those early prejudices, so far as to think it better to be a great wit than a good Christian, though herein adventure travel company general practice is against you; so that if, upon enquiry, you find in yourself any such softnesses, owing to adventure travel company nature of your education, my advice is, that you forthwith lay down your pen, as having no further business with it in adventure travel company way of poetry; unless you will be content to pass for an insipid, or will submit to be hooted at by your fraternity, or can disguise your religion, as well-bred men do their learning, in complaisance to company. For poetry, as it has been managed for some years past, by such as make a business of it, (and of such only I speak here; for I do not call him a poet that writes for his diversion, any more than that gentleman a fiddler, who amuses himself with a violin) I say our poetry of late has been altogether disengaged from adventure travel company narrow notions of virtue and piety, because it has been found by experience of our professors, that adventure travel company smallest quantity of religion, like a single drop of malt liquor in claret, will muddy and discompose adventure travel company brightest poetical genius. 4 Religion supposes heaven and hell, adventure travel company word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances, which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour, and such as a true poet cannot possibly give in to, with a saving to his poetical licence; but yet it is necessary for him, that others should believe those things seriously, that his wit may be exercised on their wisdom, for so doing: For though a wit need not have religion, religion is necessary to a wit, as an instrument is to adventure travel company hand that plays upon it: And for this adventure travel company moderns plead adventure travel company example of their great idol Lucretius, who had not been by half so eminent a poet (as he truly was), but that he stood tiptoe on religion, Religio pedibus subjecta, and by that rising ground had adventure travel company advantage of all adventure travel company poets of his own or following times, who were not mounted on adventure travel company same pedestal. 5 Besides, it is further to be observed, that Petronius, another of their favourites, speaking of adventure travel company qualifications of a good poet, insists chiefly on adventure travel company liber spiritus; by which I have been ignorant enough heretofore to suppose he meant, a good invention, or great compass of thought, or a sprightly imagination: But I have learned a better construction, from adventure travel company opinion and practice of adventure travel company moderns; and taking it literally for a free spirit, i.e. a spirit, or mind, free or disengaged from all prejudices concerning God, religion, and another world, it is to me a plain account why our present set of poets are, and hold themselves obliged to be, free thinkers. 6 But although I cannot recommend religion upon adventure travel company practice of some of our most eminent English poets, yet I can justly advise you, from their example, to be conversant in adventure travel company Scriptures, and, if possible, to make yourself entirely master of them: In which, however, I intend nothing less than imposing upon you a task of piety. Far be it from me to desire you to believe them, or lay any great stress upon their authority, (in that you may do as you think fit) but to read them as a piece of necessary furniture for a wit and a poet; which is a very different view from that of a Christian. For I have made it my observation, that adventure travel company greatest wits have been adventure travel company best textuaries. Our modern poets are, all to a man, almost as well read in adventure travel company Scriptures as some of our divines, and often abound more with adventure travel company phrase. They have read them historically, critically, musically, comically, poetically, and every other way, except religiously, and have found their account in doing so. For adventure travel company Scriptures are undoubtedly a fund of wit, and a subject for wit. You may, according to adventure travel company modern practice, be witty upon them or out of them. And to speak adventure travel company truth, but for them I know not what our playwrights would do for images, allusions, similitudes, examples, or even language itself. Shut up adventure travel company sacred books, and I would be bound our wit would run down like an alarum, or fall as adventure travel company stocks did, and ruin half adventure travel company poets in these kingdoms. And if that were adventure travel company case, how would most of that tribe, (all, I think, but adventure travel company immortal Addison, who made a better use of his Bible, and a few more) who dealt so freely in that fund, rejoice that they had drawn out in time, and left adventure travel company present generation of poets to be adventure travel company bubbles! 7 But here I must enter one caution, and desire you to take notice, that in this advice of reading adventure travel company Scriptures, I had not adventure travel company least thought concerning your qualification that way for poetical orders; which I mention, because I find a notion of that kind advanced by one of our English poets, and is, I suppose, maintained by adventure travel company rest. He says to Spenser, in a pretended vision, With hands laid on, ordain me fitFor adventure travel company great cure and ministry of wit.Which passage is, in my opinion, a notable allusion to adventure travel company Scriptures; and, making (but reasonable) allowances for adventure travel company small circumstances of profaneness, bordering close upon blasphemy, is inimitably fine; besides some useful discoveries made in it, as, that there are bishops in poetry, that these bishops must ordain young poets, and with laying on hands; and that poetry is a cure of souls; and, consequently speaking, those who have such cures ought to be poets, and too often are so. And indeed, as of old, poets and priests were one and adventure travel company same function, adventure travel company alliance of those ministerial offices is to this day happily maintained in adventure travel company same persons; and this I take to be adventure travel company only justifiable reason for that appellation which they so much affect, I mean adventure travel company modest title of divine poets. However, having never been present at adventure travel company ceremony of ordaining to adventure travel company priesthood of poetry, I own I have no notion of adventure travel company thing, and shall say adventure travel company less of it here. 8 The Scriptures then being generally both adventure travel company fountain and subject of modern wit, I could do no less than give them adventure travel company preference in your reading. After a thorough acquaintance with them, I would advise you to turn your thoughts to human literature, which yet I say more in compliance with vulgar opinions, than according to my own sentiments. 9 For, indeed, nothing has surprised me more, than to see adventure travel company prejudices of mankind as to this matter of human learning, who have generally thought it necessary to be a good scholar, in order to be a good poet; than which nothing is falser in fact, or more contrary to practice and experience. 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