The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volum 1J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Pàgina x
... common operations of human nature Choler , ' lord Bacon ob- serves , puts men on action ; when it grows adust , it turns to melancholy . ' In Swift , that humour seems to have been predominant ; go- verned , however , even in his ...
... common operations of human nature Choler , ' lord Bacon ob- serves , puts men on action ; when it grows adust , it turns to melancholy . ' In Swift , that humour seems to have been predominant ; go- verned , however , even in his ...
Pàgina lix
... Common Prayerbook , it may be still employed , even to advantage , in ser- mons , and works of divinity ; as it borrows a kind of solemnity , and somewhat of a sanctified air , from being found only in those sacred writings ; on which ...
... Common Prayerbook , it may be still employed , even to advantage , in ser- mons , and works of divinity ; as it borrows a kind of solemnity , and somewhat of a sanctified air , from being found only in those sacred writings ; on which ...
Pàgina xc
... a great affectation for every thing nasty . He takes the air upon dunghills , in ditches , and in common sewers , and at my Lord Mayor's dog - kennel . By the the first of these , he shews his religion , XC ESSAY ON THE EARLIER PART.
... a great affectation for every thing nasty . He takes the air upon dunghills , in ditches , and in common sewers , and at my Lord Mayor's dog - kennel . By the the first of these , he shews his religion , XC ESSAY ON THE EARLIER PART.
Pàgina clviii
... common clay or finer mould Was much too good , such stuff to hold . At last he wisely thought on mud ; So rais'd it up , and call'd it - Cludd . With this , the lady well content , Low courtsey'd , and away she went . ' * These last ...
... common clay or finer mould Was much too good , such stuff to hold . At last he wisely thought on mud ; So rais'd it up , and call'd it - Cludd . With this , the lady well content , Low courtsey'd , and away she went . ' * These last ...
Pàgina cxciii
... common matters of the Law ; and concluded , Once more , and no more , since few words are best , I charge you all present , by way of If ye honour , as I do , Our dear Royal Widow , Or have any compassion For Church or the Nation ; And ...
... common matters of the Law ; and concluded , Once more , and no more , since few words are best , I charge you all present , by way of If ye honour , as I do , Our dear Royal Widow , Or have any compassion For Church or the Nation ; And ...
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Pàgina 325 - 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 288 - A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy.
Pàgina 310 - I could have borne the rack much better than those killing, killing words of yours. Sometimes I have resolved to die without seeing you more ; but those resolves, to your misfortune, did not last long...
Pàgina 310 - Oh ! that you may have but so much regard for me left that this complaint may touch your soul with pity. I say as little as ever I can ; did you but know what I thought, I am sure it would move you to forgive me ; and believe I cannot help telling you. this and live.
Pàgina 63 - Swift went up to the ixnintry gentleman, and in a very abrupt manner, without any previous salute, asked him, " Pray, sir, do you remember any good weather in the world...
Pàgina 223 - You know how well I loved both Lord Oxford and Bolingbroke, and how dear the Duke of Ormond is to me: do you imagine I can be easy while their enemies are endeavouring to take off their heads; I nunc, et versus tecum meditare canoros...
Pàgina cxlvi - My hate, whose lash just Heaven has long decreed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed...
Pàgina 261 - You may see by this that you are not much injured by being supposed the author of this piece. If you are, you have disobliged us, and two or three of your best friends, in not giving us the least hint of it while you were with us; and in particular Dr Arbuthnot, who says it is ten thousand pities he had not known it, he could have added such abundance of things upon every subject.
Pàgina 317 - What marks are there of a deity, but what you are to be known by? — you are present everywhere: your dear image is always before mine eyes. Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe, I tremble with fear; at other times a charming compassion shines through your countenance, which revives my soul.
Pàgina 90 - Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons. I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman.