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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... desire your opinion , whether I may not lawfully play the in- quisition upon her , make use of a little force , and put her to the rack and torture , only to convince her , she has really fine limbs , without spoiling or distorting them ...
... desire your opinion , whether I may not lawfully play the in- quisition upon her , make use of a little force , and put her to the rack and torture , only to convince her , she has really fine limbs , without spoiling or distorting them ...
Strana 8
... desires were im- planted in us for reverend purposes , in preserving the race of men , and giving opportunities for making our chastity more heroic . " The conference was continued in this celestial strain , and carried on so well by ...
... desires were im- planted in us for reverend purposes , in preserving the race of men , and giving opportunities for making our chastity more heroic . " The conference was continued in this celestial strain , and carried on so well by ...
Strana 9
... desires . 66 THE TATLER , No. XXXV . " SIR , THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 1709 . " To ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , Esq . Not long since , you were pleased to give us a chi- merical account of the famous family of the Staffs , from whence I suppose you ...
... desires . 66 THE TATLER , No. XXXV . " SIR , THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 1709 . " To ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , Esq . Not long since , you were pleased to give us a chi- merical account of the famous family of the Staffs , from whence I suppose you ...
Strana 24
... desire of pleasing each other die away . This opinion was so established in the hea- then world , that their sense of living appeared insipid , except their being was enlivened with a consciousness that they were esteemed by the rest of ...
... desire of pleasing each other die away . This opinion was so established in the hea- then world , that their sense of living appeared insipid , except their being was enlivened with a consciousness that they were esteemed by the rest of ...
Strana 29
... desire your admonition to our vicar and school- master , who , in his preaching to his auditors , stretches his jaws so wide , that , instead of instructing youth , it ra- ther frightens them : likewise in reading prayers , he has such ...
... desire your admonition to our vicar and school- master , who , in his preaching to his auditors , stretches his jaws so wide , that , instead of instructing youth , it ra- ther frightens them : likewise in reading prayers , he has such ...
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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...