The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Zväzok 91824 |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 71.
Strana 2
... town , that these lucubrations were written by the same hand with the first works which were published under my name ; but , be- fore I lost the participation of that author's fame , I had already found the advantage of his authority ...
... town , that these lucubrations were written by the same hand with the first works which were published under my name ; but , be- fore I lost the participation of that author's fame , I had already found the advantage of his authority ...
Strana 20
... high - church mob upon occasion of Sacheverell's trial . Supposed to be Dr Joseph Trapp , of whom Swift speaks with contempt in his Journal . relief to all the lazy pulpits in town . This 20 MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICAL PAPERS .
... high - church mob upon occasion of Sacheverell's trial . Supposed to be Dr Joseph Trapp , of whom Swift speaks with contempt in his Journal . relief to all the lazy pulpits in town . This 20 MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICAL PAPERS .
Strana 21
... town . This smart youth has a very good memory , a quick eye , and a clean hand- kerchief . Thus equipped , he opens his text , shuts his book fairly , shews he has no notes in his bible , opens both palms , and shews all is fair there ...
... town . This smart youth has a very good memory , a quick eye , and a clean hand- kerchief . Thus equipped , he opens his text , shuts his book fairly , shews he has no notes in his bible , opens both palms , and shews all is fair there ...
Strana 43
... town . - I tho't to ha ' come down myself , and then I'd ha ' bro't um ; but ha'nt don't , and I believe I can't do't , that's pozz . - Tom † begins to g'imself airs , because he's * It is very remarkable , that , notwithstanding the ...
... town . - I tho't to ha ' come down myself , and then I'd ha ' bro't um ; but ha'nt don't , and I believe I can't do't , that's pozz . - Tom † begins to g'imself airs , because he's * It is very remarkable , that , notwithstanding the ...
Strana 44
... town this month , & c . ' This letter is , in every point , an admirable pattern of the present polite way of writing ; nor is it of less authority for being an epistle : you may gather every flower of it , with a thousand more of equal ...
... town this month , & c . ' This letter is , in every point , an admirable pattern of the present polite way of writing ; nor is it of less authority for being an epistle : you may gather every flower of it , with a thousand more of equal ...
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Časté výrazy a frázy
acquaintance believe better Bickerstaff called coffeehouse colonel common conversation court Derbyshire discourse drink England English esteem Faith farther folly fool Footman fortune French friends genius gentlemen give greatest hand honour hope hospital humour hundred husband incurable Isaac Bickerstaff John Perrot JONATHAN SWIFT Julius Cæsar kind King kingdom Lady Answ Lady Answerall Lady Smart ladyship language laugh learning least live lord Lord Carteret lordship madam manner married mean Memoirs mind Miss moidore nature never Neverout observe occasion opinion paper perhaps persons poet polite Pray present pretend quadrille racter Rathfarnham reader reason ridicule sent shew Sir John Sir William Temple Solomon Sparkish sure Swift taste TATLER thee there's thing thought thousand tion tongue town virtue wherein whole words writ young
Populárne pasáže
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...