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 317
... incurable fools , incurable knaves , incurable scolds , incurable scribblers , ( besides myself , ) incurable coxcombs , incurable infidels , incur- able liars , incurable whores , in all places of public resort ; -not to mention the ...
... incurable fools , incurable knaves , incurable scolds , incurable scribblers , ( besides myself , ) incurable coxcombs , incurable infidels , incur- able liars , incurable whores , in all places of public resort ; -not to mention the ...
Strana 318
... bribe into their embraces such whose fortunes and char- acters are equally desperate . Besides , our collection of incurable fools would receive an incredible addition from every one of the following 318 SCHEME TO MAKE AN.
... bribe into their embraces such whose fortunes and char- acters are equally desperate . Besides , our collection of incurable fools would receive an incredible addition from every one of the following 318 SCHEME TO MAKE AN.
Strana 320
... incurable knaves ; of which our several Inns of Court would constantly afford us abundant sup- plies . I think , indeed , that , of this species of incurables , there ought to be a certain limited number annually admitted , which number ...
... incurable knaves ; of which our several Inns of Court would constantly afford us abundant sup- plies . I think , indeed , that , of this species of incurables , there ought to be a certain limited number annually admitted , which number ...
Strana 324
... incurable , and renders him disagreeable to his friends , and a fit subject for ridicule to his enemies . As to the incurable scribblers , ( of which society I have the honour to be a member , ) they probably are innumerable ; and , of ...
... incurable , and renders him disagreeable to his friends , and a fit subject for ridicule to his enemies . As to the incurable scribblers , ( of which society I have the honour to be a member , ) they probably are innumerable ; and , of ...
Strana 325
... incurable coxcombs are to be met with between St. James's and Limehouse , at every hour of the day ; as numerous as Welsh parsons , and equably contemptible . How they swarm in all coffeehouses , theatres , public walks , and private ...
... incurable coxcombs are to be met with between St. James's and Limehouse , at every hour of the day ; as numerous as Welsh parsons , and equably contemptible . How they swarm in all coffeehouses , theatres , public walks , and private ...
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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.