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
... turns an- other into ridicule , and shews at the same time he is in good humour , and not urged on by malice against the person he rallies . Obadiah Greenhat has hit this very well for to make an apology to Isaac Bickerstaff , an ...
... turns an- other into ridicule , and shews at the same time he is in good humour , and not urged on by malice against the person he rallies . Obadiah Greenhat has hit this very well for to make an apology to Isaac Bickerstaff , an ...
Strana 17
... turn of the eye , and an apt sound to every word that is uttered , must all conspire to make an accomplished speaker . Action in one that speaks in public , is the same thing as a good mien in ordinary life . Thus , as a certain ...
... turn of the eye , and an apt sound to every word that is uttered , must all conspire to make an accomplished speaker . Action in one that speaks in public , is the same thing as a good mien in ordinary life . Thus , as a certain ...
Strana 35
... turns and windings ; and though they were as active as any in their motions , they made but little progress in the ascent . These , as my guide informed me , were " men of subtle tempers , and puzzled politics , who would supply the ...
... turns and windings ; and though they were as active as any in their motions , they made but little progress in the ascent . These , as my guide informed me , were " men of subtle tempers , and puzzled politics , who would supply the ...
Strana 48
... turning this into ridicule . He has to - day printed the letter , and signed it J. S. , M. P. , and N. R. , the first letters of all our names . " Journal to Stella , Dec. 2 , 1710.- " The modern phrase , Great Britain , ' is only to ...
... turning this into ridicule . He has to - day printed the letter , and signed it J. S. , M. P. , and N. R. , the first letters of all our names . " Journal to Stella , Dec. 2 , 1710.- " The modern phrase , Great Britain , ' is only to ...
Strana 58
... turn of thought and method of living ! THE TATLER , No. V. -Laceratque , trahitque Molle pecus . VIRG . SATURDAY , JANUARY 27 , 1710-11 . AMONG other services I have met with from some cri- tics , the cruellest for an old man is , that ...
... turn of thought and method of living ! THE TATLER , No. V. -Laceratque , trahitque Molle pecus . VIRG . SATURDAY , JANUARY 27 , 1710-11 . AMONG other services I have met with from some cri- tics , the cruellest for an old man is , that ...
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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...