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 24
... particular ac- tions of the most illustrious . True it is , that without this impulse to fame and reputation , our industry would stagnate , and that lively desire of pleasing each other die away . This opinion was so established in the ...
... particular ac- tions of the most illustrious . True it is , that without this impulse to fame and reputation , our industry would stagnate , and that lively desire of pleasing each other die away . This opinion was so established in the ...
Strana 28
... particular man- ner and for the same reason , he will never more in- struct the feathered kind , the parrot having been his last scholar in that way . He has a wonderful faculty in making and mending echoes ; and this he will per- form ...
... particular man- ner and for the same reason , he will never more in- struct the feathered kind , the parrot having been his last scholar in that way . He has a wonderful faculty in making and mending echoes ; and this he will per- form ...
Strana 33
... particular structure , that no creature which was not made in a human figure , could possibly ascend it . On a sudden , there was heard from the top of it a sound like that of a trumpet ; but so exceedingly sweet and harmonious , that ...
... particular structure , that no creature which was not made in a human figure , could possibly ascend it . On a sudden , there was heard from the top of it a sound like that of a trumpet ; but so exceedingly sweet and harmonious , that ...
Strana 42
... particular sciences , di- vinity , law , physic , and the like ; I mean the traders in history , and politics , and the belles lettres , together with those by whom books are not translated , but ( as the com- mon expressions are ) done ...
... particular sciences , di- vinity , law , physic , and the like ; I mean the traders in history , and politics , and the belles lettres , together with those by whom books are not translated , but ( as the com- mon expressions are ) done ...
Strana 74
... particular to my charming correspond- ent . In order to it I must premise , that the person pro- duced as mine in the play - house last winter did in no- wise appertain to me . It was such a one , however , as agreed well with the ...
... particular to my charming correspond- ent . In order to it I must premise , that the person pro- duced as mine in the play - house last winter did in no- wise appertain to me . It was such a one , however , as agreed well with the ...
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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...