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 35
... insomuch , that abundance of our company were discouraged from passing any farther , and some appear- ed ashamed of having come so far . As for myself , I : must confess my heart shrunk within me at the sight THE TATLER , NO , LXXXI . 35.
... insomuch , that abundance of our company were discouraged from passing any farther , and some appear- ed ashamed of having come so far . As for myself , I : must confess my heart shrunk within me at the sight THE TATLER , NO , LXXXI . 35.
Strana 39
... passed at the table , a word or nod from Homer decided the controversy . After a short pause Augustus appeared , looking round him , with a serene and affable countenance , upon all the writers of his age , who strove among themselves ...
... passed at the table , a word or nod from Homer decided the controversy . After a short pause Augustus appeared , looking round him , with a serene and affable countenance , upon all the writers of his age , who strove among themselves ...
Strana 52
... passed for a creature of Mr Steele's imagination . This illusion might have hoped for some tolerable success , if I had not more than once produced my person in a crowded theatre ; and such a person as Mr Steele , if I am not ...
... passed for a creature of Mr Steele's imagination . This illusion might have hoped for some tolerable success , if I had not more than once produced my person in a crowded theatre ; and such a person as Mr Steele , if I am not ...
Strana 74
... passed through since my first entrance into mortal being , which is now many centuries ago . It is enough that I have in every one of them opposed myself with the utmost resolution to the follies and vices of the several ages 74 ...
... passed through since my first entrance into mortal being , which is now many centuries ago . It is enough that I have in every one of them opposed myself with the utmost resolution to the follies and vices of the several ages 74 ...
Strana 75
... passed from one abode to another much quicker than the Pythagorean system generally allows . By this means I have seldom had a body to myself , but have lodged up and down wherever I found a genius suitable to my own . In this manner I ...
... passed from one abode to another much quicker than the Pythagorean system generally allows . By this means I have seldom had a body to myself , but have lodged up and down wherever I found a genius suitable to my own . In this manner 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...