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 7
... friend ad- vances , and so on , until they had all saluted her . By this means the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows , at a loss what to do , without courage to pass through them ; and the Platonics , at several ...
... friend ad- vances , and so on , until they had all saluted her . By this means the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows , at a loss what to do , without courage to pass through them ; and the Platonics , at several ...
Strana 8
... friends followed his example . The devoted within stood in amazement where this would end , to see Madonella re- ceive their address and their company . But Rake goes on . " We would not transgress rules ; but if we may take the liberty ...
... friends followed his example . The devoted within stood in amazement where this would end , to see Madonella re- ceive their address and their company . But Rake goes on . " We would not transgress rules ; but if we may take the liberty ...
Strana 13
... friends they never call after those who run away from them , or pretend to take hold of you if you resist . But it has been remarkable , that all who have shunned their company , or not listened to them , have fallen into the hands of ...
... friends they never call after those who run away from them , or pretend to take hold of you if you resist . But it has been remarkable , that all who have shunned their company , or not listened to them , have fallen into the hands of ...
Strana 20
... friend Greenhat come in , can give a good hint , and cry out , This is only for the saints ! the regenerated ! ' By this force of action , though mixed with all the inco- herence and ribaldry imaginable , Daniel can laugh at his ...
... friend Greenhat come in , can give a good hint , and cry out , This is only for the saints ! the regenerated ! ' By this force of action , though mixed with all the inco- herence and ribaldry imaginable , Daniel can laugh at his ...
Strana 53
... friends , that we shall still continue to furnish you with hints on all proper occa- sions , which is all your genius requires . I think , by the way , you cannot in honour have any more to do with Morphew and Lillie , who have gone ...
... friends , that we shall still continue to furnish you with hints on all proper occa- sions , which is all your genius requires . I think , by the way , you cannot in honour have any more to do with Morphew and Lillie , who have gone ...
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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...