The Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politicsA. Constable, 1814 |
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Pàgina 5
... rest . My intention was to inscribe it to the king your late master , for whose great virtues I had ever the highest vene- ration , as I shall continue to bear to his memory . I confess it is with some disdain that I observe great ...
... rest . My intention was to inscribe it to the king your late master , for whose great virtues I had ever the highest vene- ration , as I shall continue to bear to his memory . I confess it is with some disdain that I observe great ...
Pàgina 23
... off their hands and ears , and other the like inhumanities . The earl himself was taken prisoner as he endea- voured to make his escape ; but suffered no other punishment than to be confined for the rest of his WILLIAM THE SECOND . 23.
... off their hands and ears , and other the like inhumanities . The earl himself was taken prisoner as he endea- voured to make his escape ; but suffered no other punishment than to be confined for the rest of his WILLIAM THE SECOND . 23.
Pàgina 24
Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott. punishment than to be confined for the rest of his life . * About this time began the Holy War for the recovering of Palestine ; which having not been the enterprise of any one prince or state , but that ...
Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott. punishment than to be confined for the rest of his life . * About this time began the Holy War for the recovering of Palestine ; which having not been the enterprise of any one prince or state , but that ...
Pàgina 29
... rest , fled different ways ; until the fright being a little over , some of them returned , and causing the body to be laid in a collier's cart , for want of other conveniency , conveyed it in a very unbecoming contemptuous manner to ...
... rest , fled different ways ; until the fright being a little over , some of them returned , and causing the body to be laid in a collier's cart , for want of other conveniency , conveyed it in a very unbecoming contemptuous manner to ...
Pàgina 44
... their neighbours , with the rest of those northern people , did perhaps borrow it . But an assembly of the three estates is not properly of Gothic in- stitution ; for these fierce people , when upon the 44 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... their neighbours , with the rest of those northern people , did perhaps borrow it . But an assembly of the three estates is not properly of Gothic in- stitution ; for these fierce people , when upon the 44 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 355 - So spake the false dissembler unperceived; For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to GOD alone, By His permissive will, through heav'n and earth: And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Pàgina 398 - Of land, set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this and more, I ask not to increase my store ; But here a grievance seems to lie, All this is mine but till I die ; 10 I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs for ever.
Pàgina 211 - I, AB, do in the Presence of Almighty God promise, vow and protest, To maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may, with my life, power and estate, the True Reformed Protestant Religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England...
Pàgina 231 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?
Pàgina 400 - To-morrow my appeal comes on; Without your help the cause is gone.'— ' The duke expects my lord and you About some great affair at two.'— ' Put my Lord Bolingbroke in mind To get my warrant quickly sign'd : Consider, 'tis my first request...
Pàgina 400 - And take it kindly meant to show What I desire the world should know. I get a whisper, and withdraw, When twenty fools I never saw Come with petitions fairly penn'd, Desiring i would stand their friend.
Pàgina 402 - And chose me for an humble friend : Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that ; As, 'What's o'clock?
Pàgina 291 - The senseless plea of right by Providence Was, by a flattering priest, invented since; And lasts no longer than the present sway; But justifies the next who comes in play.
Pàgina 397 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Pàgina 401 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,