The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 1
... language and force of fentiment . JONATHAN SWIFT was , according to an account faid to be written by himself * , the son of Jonathan Swift , an attorney , and was born at Dublin on St. Andrew's day , 1667 : according to his own report ...
... language and force of fentiment . JONATHAN SWIFT was , according to an account faid to be written by himself * , the son of Jonathan Swift , an attorney , and was born at Dublin on St. Andrew's day , 1667 : according to his own report ...
Pàgina 13
... language , and without any accurate enquiry into the hiftory of other tongues . The cer- tainty and stability which , contrary to all experience , he thinks attainable , he propofes to fecure by infti- tuting an academy ; the decrees of ...
... language , and without any accurate enquiry into the hiftory of other tongues . The cer- tainty and stability which , contrary to all experience , he thinks attainable , he propofes to fecure by infti- tuting an academy ; the decrees of ...
Pàgina 30
... language ; and of her wit , fo loudly vaunted , the fmart fayings which Swift himself has collected afford no splendid speci- men . The reader of Swift's " Letter to a Lady on her " Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his ...
... language ; and of her wit , fo loudly vaunted , the fmart fayings which Swift himself has collected afford no splendid speci- men . The reader of Swift's " Letter to a Lady on her " Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his ...
Pàgina 37
... , is not true of any thing else which he has written .. In his other works is found an equable tenour of eafy language , which rather trickles than flows . D 3 His His delight was in fimplicity . That he has in SWIFT . 37.
... , is not true of any thing else which he has written .. In his other works is found an equable tenour of eafy language , which rather trickles than flows . D 3 His His delight was in fimplicity . That he has in SWIFT . 37.
Pàgina 43
... language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocula- rity but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an affumed imperioufnefs , in which he was ironi- cal only to the refentful , and to the fubmiffive suffi ...
... language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocula- rity but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an affumed imperioufnefs , in which he was ironi- cal only to the refentful , and to the fubmiffive suffi ...
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