Life of Swift. Appendix: Anecdotes of the family of Swift, a fragment written by Dr. SwiftCadell and Company, 1827 |
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... Irish Clergy - His Correspondence with Archbishop King - His Intimacy with the Ministers - The services which he ... Irish Politics - His Proposal for Encouragement of Irish Manufactures - and other Tracts - Drapier's Let- ters - Swift's ...
... Irish Clergy - His Correspondence with Archbishop King - His Intimacy with the Ministers - The services which he ... Irish Politics - His Proposal for Encouragement of Irish Manufactures - and other Tracts - Drapier's Let- ters - Swift's ...
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... Irish Affairs - He Quarrels with Lord Allen— -Is intimate with Carteret - A Letter is Forged in his Name to the Queen - His Miscellaneous Prose Writings about this Period - His Poems - His Residence at Goss- ford with Sir Arthur Acheson ...
... Irish Affairs - He Quarrels with Lord Allen— -Is intimate with Carteret - A Letter is Forged in his Name to the Queen - His Miscellaneous Prose Writings about this Period - His Poems - His Residence at Goss- ford with Sir Arthur Acheson ...
Pàgina 6
... Irish Dean . In this church he has put A stone of two foot ; With a cup and a can , Sir , In respect to his grandsire ; So , Ireland , change thy tone , And cry , O hone ! O hone ! For England hath its own . The lines , originally ...
... Irish Dean . In this church he has put A stone of two foot ; With a cup and a can , Sir , In respect to his grandsire ; So , Ireland , change thy tone , And cry , O hone ! O hone ! For England hath its own . The lines , originally ...
Pàgina 65
... Irish mould . ' Have you long been native country ? ' out of your Thirty years , sir . ' Do you ever expect to visit ... Irish statute- Ipsis Hibernis Hiberniores ! ( The English settlers are more Irish than the Irish themselves ...
... Irish mould . ' Have you long been native country ? ' out of your Thirty years , sir . ' Do you ever expect to visit ... Irish statute- Ipsis Hibernis Hiberniores ! ( The English settlers are more Irish than the Irish themselves ...
Pàgina 95
... Irish convocation in the preceding year , was employed by Archbishop King , and the rest of the Irish prelacy , to solicit the remission of the first - fruits . He made his application to Lord Go- dolphin , by the encouragement of Lord ...
... Irish convocation in the preceding year , was employed by Archbishop King , and the rest of the Irish prelacy , to solicit the remission of the first - fruits . He made his application to Lord Go- dolphin , by the encouragement of Lord ...
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acquaintance Addison affection afterwards anecdote answer appears Archbishop bequeath Bishop Bishop of Clogher Bolingbroke Carteret celebrated character church circumstances clergy court Dean of St Dean Swift Dean's deanery death Delany Dr Johnson Dr Swift Drapier's Drapier's Letters Dublin Earl England executors expressed Faulkner favour friendship gave genius gentleman give Gulliver Gulliver's Travels Harley honour humour Ibid interest intimate Ireland Irish Jonathan Swift Journal King King's Inns lady Laracor letter literary living London Lord Bolingbroke Lord Orrery Lord Somers Lord Wharton lord-treasurer ment mind ministers never occasion opinion Orrery Oxford party passion person poem political Pope pounds Prebendary probably published Queen received remarkable rendered Reverend satire seems sent servants Sheridan shew Sir William Temple society St Patrick's Stella supposed talents Theophilus Swift Thomas Swift tion told Tories Vanessa Vanhomrigh verses Walpole Wharton Whig Whiteway Wood's writing
Passatges populars
Pàgina 293 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Pàgina 250 - 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 132 - ... one thing I warned him of, Never to appear cold to me, for I would not be treated like a school-boy; that I had felt too much of that in my life already...
Pàgina 135 - 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...
Pàgina 262 - 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...
Pàgina 445 - 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 155 - I am bound to, in honour and conscience, to use all my little credit towards helping forward men of worth in the world...
Pàgina 50 - When I was a schoolboy at Kilkenny, and in the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out of the town to kill him for the skin. I asked the man if he would sell him, which he readily consented to, upon my offering him somewhat more than the price of the hide, which was all the money I had in the world. I immediately got on him, to the great envy of some of my schoolfellows, and to the ridicule of others, and rode...
Pàgina 251 - Observe them but for fashion's sake ; The strongest reason will submit To virtue, honour, sense, and wit : To such a nymph, the wise and good Cannot be faithless, if they would ; For vices all have different ends, But virtue still to virtue tends : And when your lover is not true, 'Tis virtue fails in him, or you. And either he deserves disdain, Or you without a cause complain. But here Vanessa cannot err, Nor are these rules applied to her, For who could such a nymph forsake.
Pàgina 114 - I am convinced, that whatever Government come over, you will find all marks of kindness from any Parliament here, with respect to your employment ; the Tories contending with the Whigs which should speak best of you.