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 349
... answers , replies , and rejoinders . However , my concern was much abated when I found that these defects were not occasioned by any want of materials , but because those materials were not in every hand : for instance , one lady can ...
... answers , replies , and rejoinders . However , my concern was much abated when I found that these defects were not occasioned by any want of materials , but because those materials were not in every hand : for instance , one lady can ...
Strana 351
... and had made the greatest part of my collection in twelve years , but not digested into any method , for this I found was a work of infinite la- bour , and ... lady or gentleman , when they have read it , shall find the least thing of import- ...
... and had made the greatest part of my collection in twelve years , but not digested into any method , for this I found was a work of infinite la- bour , and ... lady or gentleman , when they have read it , shall find the least thing of import- ...
Strana 352
... ladies and gentlemen , met to- gether for their mutual entertainment , can possibly want : especially when the several flowers shall be set off and improved by the ... and every reply or answer ; directing exactly the mo- 352 INTRODUCTION TO.
... ladies and gentlemen , met to- gether for their mutual entertainment , can possibly want : especially when the several flowers shall be set off and improved by the ... and every reply or answer ; directing exactly the mo- 352 INTRODUCTION TO.
Strana 353
Jonathan Swift sir Walter Scott (bart). and every reply or answer ; directing exactly the mo- ment when one , two ... female , the levees of great ministers , as well as the toilet and tea - table of the ladies . I can faithfully assure ...
Jonathan Swift sir Walter Scott (bart). and every reply or answer ; directing exactly the mo- ment when one , two ... female , the levees of great ministers , as well as the toilet and tea - table of the ladies . I can faithfully assure ...
Strana 354
... answers , questions , repartees , and the like , immediately , and without study or hesita- tion . And , secondly , after a lady or gentleman has so well overcome this difficulty as never to be at a loss upon any emergency , the true ...
... answers , questions , repartees , and the like , immediately , and without study or hesita- tion . And , secondly , after a lady or gentleman has so well overcome this difficulty as never to be at a loss upon any emergency , the true ...
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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...