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Pàgina 12
... passed between him and Sheridan , during his declining years . From Kilkenny , Swift was removed , at the age of 14 , and admitted into Trinity College , Dublin , where , as appears from the book of the senior lecturers , he was ...
... passed between him and Sheridan , during his declining years . From Kilkenny , Swift was removed , at the age of 14 , and admitted into Trinity College , Dublin , where , as appears from the book of the senior lecturers , he was ...
Pàgina 13
... passing examination for his degrees . Neither did he pay regular attention to other studies more congenial to his disposition . He read and studied rather for amusement , and to divert melancholy reflections , than with the zeal of ...
... passing examination for his degrees . Neither did he pay regular attention to other studies more congenial to his disposition . He read and studied rather for amusement , and to divert melancholy reflections , than with the zeal of ...
Pàgina 30
... passed away , it does not appear that Swift made any efforts towards literary distinction ; for the verses addressed to Congreve , November , 1693 , and those to Sir William Temple , in December following , seem to * Vol . XIV . p . 23 ...
... passed away , it does not appear that Swift made any efforts towards literary distinction ; for the verses addressed to Congreve , November , 1693 , and those to Sir William Temple , in December following , seem to * Vol . XIV . p . 23 ...
Pàgina 38
... passed to England from France , where Fontenelle and Perrault had first ventured to assert the cause of the moderns . Upon its merits it may be sufficient to observe , that the field of comparison is infinitely too wide to admit of ...
... passed to England from France , where Fontenelle and Perrault had first ventured to assert the cause of the moderns . Upon its merits it may be sufficient to observe , that the field of comparison is infinitely too wide to admit of ...
Pàgina 58
... passed in his way to Laracor . Dublin for a city , Dunshaughlin for a plow , Navan for a market , Ardbracken for a cow ; Kells for an old town , Virginia poor , Cavan for dirt , and Belturbet for a whore . SWIFTIANA . Swift was very ...
... passed in his way to Laracor . Dublin for a city , Dunshaughlin for a plow , Navan for a market , Ardbracken for a cow ; Kells for an old town , Virginia poor , Cavan for dirt , and Belturbet for a whore . SWIFTIANA . Swift was very ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 410 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Pàgina 428 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Pàgina 16 - Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Pàgina 238 - But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together ; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Pàgina 250 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in, ' heyday, gentlemen, (says the doctor) what's the meaning of this visit?
Pàgina 462 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed, or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of any thing else which he has written.
Pàgina 75 - than I can say ; I never remember any " weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet, " or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives " it, at the end of the year tis all very well.
Pàgina 32 - Ireland, offered him an employ of about £120 a year in that office ; whereupon Mr. Swift told him, that since he had now an opportunity of living without being driven into the Church for a maintenance, he was resolved to go to Ireland, and take holy orders.
Pàgina 250 - But if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drank with me.
Pàgina 126 - if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation...