The Works, Volum 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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Pàgina 4
... respect to his grandsire ; So , Ireland , change thy tone , And cry , O hone ! O hone ! For England hath its own . The lines , originally written in pencil by Pope , are traced over in ink by Dr. Lyons , as a memorandum bears . It ...
... respect to his grandsire ; So , Ireland , change thy tone , And cry , O hone ! O hone ! For England hath its own . The lines , originally written in pencil by Pope , are traced over in ink by Dr. Lyons , as a memorandum bears . It ...
Pàgina 23
... respect adequate to produce such consequences . Secondly , His whole intercourse with Stella and Vanessa , indicates the very reverse of an ardent or licentious imagination ; and proves his coldness to have been constitutionally ...
... respect adequate to produce such consequences . Secondly , His whole intercourse with Stella and Vanessa , indicates the very reverse of an ardent or licentious imagination ; and proves his coldness to have been constitutionally ...
Pàgina 39
... seconded by the learned Bentley , who had the double motive of detecting the spurious Phalaris , and of vindicating himself from the charge of in- civility , respecting the loan of a manuscript from the JONATHAN SWIFT , D.D. 39.
... seconded by the learned Bentley , who had the double motive of detecting the spurious Phalaris , and of vindicating himself from the charge of in- civility , respecting the loan of a manuscript from the JONATHAN SWIFT , D.D. 39.
Pàgina 40
Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. civility , respecting the loan of a manuscript from the King's library to the Honourable Mr. Boyle , then engaged in an edition of the Epistles . This gave occasion to the treatise called Boyle against ...
Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. civility , respecting the loan of a manuscript from the King's library to the Honourable Mr. Boyle , then engaged in an edition of the Epistles . This gave occasion to the treatise called Boyle against ...
Pàgina 41
... respecting the execu- tion of Charles the First , than would have received the applause of many determined Whigs . The rough satirical force of the lines somewhat resembles the poetry of Churchill . ON THE BURNING OF WHITEHALL , IN 1697 ...
... respecting the execu- tion of Charles the First , than would have received the applause of many determined Whigs . The rough satirical force of the lines somewhat resembles the poetry of Churchill . ON THE BURNING OF WHITEHALL , IN 1697 ...
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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...