The Works of Jonathan Swift: containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, not hitherto published ; with notes, and a life of the author, by Sir Walter Scott, bart, Zväzok 9Bickers & Son, 1883 |
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Strana 41
... French , Latin , or other languages , and made English . I cannot but observe to you , that , until of late years , a Grub Street book was always bound in sheepskin , with suitable print and paper , the price never above a shilling ...
... French , Latin , or other languages , and made English . I cannot but observe to you , that , until of late years , a Grub Street book was always bound in sheepskin , with suitable print and paper , the price never above a shilling ...
Strana 42
... French King will bamboozl us agen , which causes many speculations . The Jacks , and others of that kidney , are very uppish and alert upon't , as you may see by their phizz's . - Will Hazard has got the hipps , having lost to the tune ...
... French King will bamboozl us agen , which causes many speculations . The Jacks , and others of that kidney , are very uppish and alert upon't , as you may see by their phizz's . - Will Hazard has got the hipps , having lost to the tune ...
Strana 62
... French call les petites morales , or the smaller morals , are , with us , * Several of the maxims so humorously exemplified in this Tatler , occur in Swift's Treatise of Good Breeding . distinguished by the name of good manners , or ...
... French call les petites morales , or the smaller morals , are , with us , * Several of the maxims so humorously exemplified in this Tatler , occur in Swift's Treatise of Good Breeding . distinguished by the name of good manners , or ...
Strana 82
... French have outdone us in these particu- lars , and , by the establishment of a society for the invention of proper inscriptions and designs , have the whole history of their present King in a regular series of medals . " They have ...
... French have outdone us in these particu- lars , and , by the establishment of a society for the invention of proper inscriptions and designs , have the whole history of their present King in a regular series of medals . " They have ...
Strana 87
... French produc- tions ; and particularly , whoever has a taste for true humour , will find a hundred instances of it in those volumes printed in France under the name of Le Theatre Italien ; to say nothing of Rabelais , Cervantes , and ...
... French produc- tions ; and particularly , whoever has a taste for true humour , will find a hundred instances of it in those volumes printed in France under the name of Le Theatre Italien ; to say nothing of Rabelais , Cervantes , and ...
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Strana 237 - it was because they smelt carrion." A TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS AND GOOD BREEDING.* manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Strana 120 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, (all covered with powder,) that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the...
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Strana 339 - A Complete Collection Of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used At Court, and in the Best Companies of England.
Strana 301 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Strana 274 - This day, being Sunday, January 28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person ever was blessed with.
Strana 361 - But every single character in Shakespeare is as much an individual, as those in life itself; it is as impossible to find any two alike; and such as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be twins, will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct.
Strana 361 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Strana 147 - But what I have most at Heart, is, that some Method should be thought on for Ascertaining and Fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite.
Strana 223 - Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.