The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Volum 12Bickers, 1883 |
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Pàgina 8
... lives have been attended with so many singular and extraordinary events . Besides the great simplicity in the style and manner of the author , it is a very valuable circum- stance , that his plain relation corrects many mistaken ...
... lives have been attended with so many singular and extraordinary events . Besides the great simplicity in the style and manner of the author , it is a very valuable circum- stance , that his plain relation corrects many mistaken ...
Pàgina 11
... lives of great men , ( which I have read in the English translation , ) says , that the nature and disposition of a man's mind may be often better discovered by a small circumstance , than by an action or event of the greatest import ...
... lives of great men , ( which I have read in the English translation , ) says , that the nature and disposition of a man's mind may be often better discovered by a small circumstance , than by an action or event of the greatest import ...
Pàgina 15
... lives , in delivering the two gentle- men from the danger that threatened them . - They all agreed that my father , and three more , at the hour of six in the morning , when the west gate stood open , and the drawbridge was let down for ...
... lives , in delivering the two gentle- men from the danger that threatened them . - They all agreed that my father , and three more , at the hour of six in the morning , when the west gate stood open , and the drawbridge was let down for ...
Pàgina 68
... lives and fortunes ; and as soon as he was gone to rest , mounting on horseback , they all went over to the prince , except the Earl of Feversham , Dum- barton , and a very few more for the Earl of Dum- barton going to his majesty , for ...
... lives and fortunes ; and as soon as he was gone to rest , mounting on horseback , they all went over to the prince , except the Earl of Feversham , Dum- barton , and a very few more for the Earl of Dum- barton going to his majesty , for ...
Pàgina 83
... lives should be endangered on this occasion . " What his grace said was very true ; for , if I remember right , the ... live a while longer . ' " " Not long after this , happened the battle of Gilli- cranky , ( or Killikranky , ) near ...
... lives should be endangered on this occasion . " What his grace said was very true ; for , if I remember right , the ... live a while longer . ' " " Not long after this , happened the battle of Gilli- cranky , ( or Killikranky , ) near ...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts ..., Volum 12 Jonathan Swift,Walter Scott Visualització completa - 1883 |
The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts ..., Volum 12 Jonathan Swift,Walter Scott Visualització completa - 1883 |
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Pàgina 124 - 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 314 - How's the wind ?' ' Whose chariot's that we left behind ?' Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs ; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Pàgina 143 - 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 441 - See, the Muse unbars the gate ; Hark, the monkeys, how they prate ! All ye gods who rule the soul ! Styx, through Hell whose waters roll!
Pàgina 315 - Faith, sir, you know as much as I." " Ah, Doctor, how you love to jest ! 'Tis now no secret" — I protest "Tis one to me — " Then tell us, pray, When are the troops to have their pay...
Pàgina 313 - tis my first request.'— ' Be satisfied, I'll do my best:'— Then presently he falls to tease, - * ' You may for certain, if you please; I doubt not, if his lordship knew— And, Mr. Dean, one word from you.'— 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, 'What's o'clock!' and,
Pàgina 26 - Orkneys, became a Judge of the Court of Session by the title of Lord Kinnedder, and died at Edinburgh in August, 1822.
Pàgina 219 - 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 162 - 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 312 - 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.