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 26
... appear that they go on in encouraging them , they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history , where all is to be laid before the world with impar- tiality , and without respect to persons , " So let the ...
... appear that they go on in encouraging them , they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history , where all is to be laid before the world with impar- tiality , and without respect to persons , " So let the ...
Strana 27
... appear such as he would persuade others to be ; and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life . I believe it might be of great service to let our public orators know , that an unnatural gravity , or an unbecoming levity ...
... appear such as he would persuade others to be ; and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life . I believe it might be of great service to let our public orators know , that an unnatural gravity , or an unbecoming levity ...
Strana 41
... appear in all sizes and shapes , and in all places : they are handed about from lapfuls in every coffeehouse to persons of quality ; are shewn in Westminster Hall and the Court of Requests ; you may see them gilt , and in royal paper ...
... appear in all sizes and shapes , and in all places : they are handed about from lapfuls in every coffeehouse to persons of quality ; are shewn in Westminster Hall and the Court of Requests ; you may see them gilt , and in royal paper ...
Strana 46
... appear perfectly ridiculous . 66 What remedies are to be applied to these evils I have not room to consider , having , I fear , already taken up most of your paper : besides , I think it is our office only to represent abuses , and ...
... appear perfectly ridiculous . 66 What remedies are to be applied to these evils I have not room to consider , having , I fear , already taken up most of your paper : besides , I think it is our office only to represent abuses , and ...
Strana 54
... appear in the same view as I left them when I was a boy ; but , to my utter dis- appointment , I found them wonderfully shrunk , and lessened almost out of my knowledge , I looked with contempt on the tribes painted on the church walls ...
... appear in the same view as I left them when I was a boy ; but , to my utter dis- appointment , I found them wonderfully shrunk , and lessened almost out of my knowledge , I looked with contempt on the tribes painted on the church walls ...
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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...
Strana 120 - THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to...
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.