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 12
... believe , that were those great wits present to answer for themselves , we should to our wonder be convinced , that we only are guilty of the mistakes we before attribu- ted to them . If you think fit to remove the scruple that now ...
... believe , that were those great wits present to answer for themselves , we should to our wonder be convinced , that we only are guilty of the mistakes we before attribu- ted to them . If you think fit to remove the scruple that now ...
Strana 13
... believe he is in jest in the whole . The other day he told Beau Brim , who is thought impotent , that his mistress had declared she would not have him , because he was a slo- ven , and had committed a rape . The beau bit at the banter ...
... believe he is in jest in the whole . The other day he told Beau Brim , who is thought impotent , that his mistress had declared she would not have him , because he was a slo- ven , and had committed a rape . The beau bit at the banter ...
Strana 18
... believe , the most learned body of men now in the world and yet this art of speaking , with the proper ornaments of voice and gesture , is wholly neglect- ed among them ; and I will engage , were a deaf man to behold the greater part of ...
... believe , the most learned body of men now in the world and yet this art of speaking , with the proper ornaments of voice and gesture , is wholly neglect- ed among them ; and I will engage , were a deaf man to behold the greater part of ...
Strana 25
... believe I have names already sent me sufficient to fill up my lists for the dark room , and every one is apt enough to send in their ac- counts of ill deservers . This malevolence does not pro- ceed from a real dislike of virtue , but a ...
... believe I have names already sent me sufficient to fill up my lists for the dark room , and every one is apt enough to send in their ac- counts of ill deservers . This malevolence does not pro- ceed from a real dislike of virtue , but a ...
Strana 27
... believe it might be of great service to let our public orators know , that an unnatural gravity , or an unbecoming levity , in their behaviour out of the pulpit , will take very much from the force of their elo- quence in it . Excuse ...
... believe it might be of great service to let our public orators know , that an unnatural gravity , or an unbecoming levity , in their behaviour out of the pulpit , will take very much from the force of their elo- quence in it . Excuse ...
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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...