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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... better employed than on that species of Precieuse , who is anxious to confound the boundaries which nature has fixed for the employments and studies of the two sexes . No man was more zealous than Swift for informing the female mind ...
... better employed than on that species of Precieuse , who is anxious to confound the boundaries which nature has fixed for the employments and studies of the two sexes . No man was more zealous than Swift for informing the female mind ...
Strana 11
... better or wiser for what I read , I am always uneasy when , in any profound writer , for I read no others , I happen to meet with what I cannot understand . When this falls out , it is a great griev- ance to me that I am not able to ...
... better or wiser for what I read , I am always uneasy when , in any profound writer , for I read no others , I happen to meet with what I cannot understand . When this falls out , it is a great griev- ance to me that I am not able to ...
Strana 18
... better part of the oration . ' Certain it is , that they who speak gracefully , are very lamely represented in having their speeches read or repeated by unskilful people ; for there is something native to each man , so inherent to his ...
... better part of the oration . ' Certain it is , that they who speak gracefully , are very lamely represented in having their speeches read or repeated by unskilful people ; for there is something native to each man , so inherent to his ...
Strana 19
... better than he speaks , and can form a proper discourse as well as any orthodox neighbour . But he knows very well , that to bawl * The celebrated Daniel Burgess , of whose pulpit buffoonery many examples are still preserved . His ...
... better than he speaks , and can form a proper discourse as well as any orthodox neighbour . But he knows very well , that to bawl * The celebrated Daniel Burgess , of whose pulpit buffoonery many examples are still preserved . His ...
Strana 23
... better , if the persons of true fame meet in a middle room , those of dubious existence in an upper room , and those of evil fame in a lower dark room . It is to be noted , that no historians are to be admitted at any of these tables ...
... better , if the persons of true fame meet in a middle room , those of dubious existence in an upper room , and those of evil fame in a lower dark room . It is to be noted , that no historians are to be admitted at any of these tables ...
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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.