The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Zväzok 91824 |
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Strana 42
... French , Latin , or other languages , and made English . I cannot but observe to you , that , until of late years , a Grub - Street book was al- ways 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 al- ways bound in sheepskin , with suitable print and paper , the price never above a shilling ...
Strana 43
... by our author on barbarous contractions , he constantly fell into that error in his private letters to Stella . + Mr Thomas Harley is here alluded to . going with the plenipos .- ' Tis said the French THE TATLER , NO . CCXXX . 43.
... by our author on barbarous contractions , he constantly fell into that error in his private letters to Stella . + Mr Thomas Harley is here alluded to . going with the plenipos .- ' Tis said the French THE TATLER , NO . CCXXX . 43.
Strana 44
... 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 65
... French call les petites morales , or the smaller morals , are , with us , distinguished by the name of good manners , or breed- ing . This I look upon , in the general notion of it , to be a sort of artificial good sense , adapted to ...
... French call les petites morales , or the smaller morals , are , with us , distinguished by the name of good manners , or breed- ing . This I look upon , in the general notion of it , to be a sort of artificial good sense , adapted to ...
Strana 86
... French have outdone us in these particulars , and , by the establishment of a society for the invention of proper inscriptions and designs , have the whole his- tory of their present King in a regular series of medals . They have failed ...
... French have outdone us in these particulars , and , by the establishment of a society for the invention of proper inscriptions and designs , have the whole his- tory of their present King in a regular series of medals . They have failed ...
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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 119 - I sighed and said within myself, surely mortal man is a broom-stick; nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, till the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk.
Strana 295 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Strana 221 - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.
Strana 348 - 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 275 - ... graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection.
Strana 348 - ... 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 237 - Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill-manners : without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or of what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
Strana 135 - For some centuries, there was a constant intercourse between France and England, by the dominions we possessed there, and the conquests we made.
Strana 119 - 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...