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 12
... things falling in my way which would not , perhaps , be altogether foreign to your purpose , and whereon your thoughts would be very acceptable to your most humble servant , " OBADIAH GREENHAT . " I own this is clean , and Mr Greenhat ...
... things falling in my way which would not , perhaps , be altogether foreign to your purpose , and whereon your thoughts would be very acceptable to your most humble servant , " OBADIAH GREENHAT . " I own this is clean , and Mr Greenhat ...
Strana 13
... things wherein he is not defective , as well as for matters wherein he is . This makes a weak man believe he is in jest in the whole . The other day he told Beau Brim , who is thought impotent , that his mistress had declared she would ...
... things wherein he is not defective , as well as for matters wherein he is . This makes a weak man believe he is in jest in the whole . The other day he told Beau Brim , who is thought impotent , that his mistress had declared she would ...
Strana 17
... thing as a good mien in ordinary life . Thus , as a certain insensibility in the countenance recommends a sentence of humour and jest , so it must be a very lively consciousness that gives grace to great sentiments . The jest is to be a ...
... thing as a good mien in ordinary life . Thus , as a certain insensibility in the countenance recommends a sentence of humour and jest , so it must be a very lively consciousness that gives grace to great sentiments . The jest is to be a ...
Strana 20
... thing , very wonderful this learned body should omit , is , learning to read ; which is a most ne- cessary part of eloquence in one who is to serve at the altar ; for there is no man but must be sensible , that the lazy tone , and ...
... thing , very wonderful this learned body should omit , is , learning to read ; which is a most ne- cessary part of eloquence in one who is to serve at the altar ; for there is no man but must be sensible , that the lazy tone , and ...
Strana 27
... thing the great Roman orator observes upon this subject : Caput enim arbitrabatur oratoris , ( he quotes Menedemus , an Athenian , ) ut ipsis apud quos ageret talis qualem ipse optaret videretur ; id fieri vitæ dignitate . ( Tull . de ...
... thing the great Roman orator observes upon this subject : Caput enim arbitrabatur oratoris , ( he quotes Menedemus , an Athenian , ) ut ipsis apud quos ageret talis qualem ipse optaret videretur ; id fieri vitæ dignitate . ( Tull . de ...
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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...