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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... Court , and in the best Companies of England , Remarks by the Editor , Introduction , Dialogue I. Dialogue II . Dialogue III . PAGE . · 347 · 348 • 349 • 387 • 439 471 MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS . TATLERS . VOL . IX . A CONTENTS . 111.
... Court , and in the best Companies of England , Remarks by the Editor , Introduction , Dialogue I. Dialogue II . Dialogue III . PAGE . · 347 · 348 • 349 • 387 • 439 471 MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS . TATLERS . VOL . IX . A CONTENTS . 111.
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... Court , as the " Me- moirs from the New Atalantis " are with those of ours . I shall make it my business to inquire into the progress of this learned institution , and give you the first notice of their " Philosophical Transactions ...
... Court , as the " Me- moirs from the New Atalantis " are with those of ours . I shall make it my business to inquire into the progress of this learned institution , and give you the first notice of their " Philosophical Transactions ...
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... Court of Requests ; you may see them gilt , and in royal paper , of five or six hundred pages , and rated ac- cordingly . I would engage to furnish you with a cata- logue of English books , published within the compass of seven years ...
... Court of Requests ; you may see them gilt , and in royal paper , of five or six hundred pages , and rated ac- cordingly . I would engage to furnish you with a cata- logue of English books , published within the compass of seven years ...
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... court , the town , or the theatre , are the first perishing parts in any language ; and , as I could prove by many hundred instances , have been so in ours . The writings of Hooker , who was a country clergyman , and of Parsons the ...
... court , the town , or the theatre , are the first perishing parts in any language ; and , as I could prove by many hundred instances , have been so in ours . The writings of Hooker , who was a country clergyman , and of Parsons the ...
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Jonathan Swift sir Walter Scott (bart). being men of the court , and affecting the phrases then in fashion , they are often either not to be understood , or appear perfectly ridiculous . " What remedies are to be applied to these evils I ...
Jonathan Swift sir Walter Scott (bart). being men of the court , and affecting the phrases then in fashion , they are often either not to be understood , or appear perfectly ridiculous . " What remedies are to be applied to these evils I ...
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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...