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 3
... called a nunnery . This lady is the Mado- nella of the Tatler . The Rake is supposed to be Mr Repinton , a fashionable gallant . This paper has been censured as a gross reflec- tion on Mrs Astell's character , but on no very just ...
... called a nunnery . This lady is the Mado- nella of the Tatler . The Rake is supposed to be Mr Repinton , a fashionable gallant . This paper has been censured as a gross reflec- tion on Mrs Astell's character , but on no very just ...
Strana 7
... called by future ages , to the eternal honour of the founders : I have read Madonella's excellent and seraphic discourse on this sub- ject . " The lady immediately answered , " If what I have said could have contributed to raise any ...
... called by future ages , to the eternal honour of the founders : I have read Madonella's excellent and seraphic discourse on this sub- ject . " The lady immediately answered , " If what I have said could have contributed to raise any ...
Strana 25
... called " Aristotle's Problems . " * But this raised a great scruple in me , whether a fame increased by imposition of others is to be added to his account , or that these excrescences , which grow out of his real reputation , and give ...
... called " Aristotle's Problems . " * But this raised a great scruple in me , whether a fame increased by imposition of others is to be added to his account , or that these excrescences , which grow out of his real reputation , and give ...
Strana 31
... called upon on this occasion : but I except the men of Queen's , Exeter , and Jesus Colleges , in Oxford , who are not to be electors , * because he shall not be crowned from an implicit faith in his writings , but re- ceive his honour ...
... called upon on this occasion : but I except the men of Queen's , Exeter , and Jesus Colleges , in Oxford , who are not to be electors , * because he shall not be crowned from an implicit faith in his writings , but re- ceive his honour ...
Strana 36
... called them up , and cheered them in their passage to her palace . They had now formed themselves into several divisions ; a band of historians taking their stations at each door , according to the persons whom they were to introduce ...
... called them up , and cheered them in their passage to her palace . They had now formed themselves into several divisions ; a band of historians taking their stations at each door , according to the persons whom they were to introduce ...
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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...