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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... Young Poet . Together with a Proposal for the Encouragement of Poetry in Ireland , 183 A Letter to a very Young Lady , on her Marriage , Resolutions when I come to be Old , 208 221 Thoughts on Various Subjects , Moral and Diverting , A ...
... Young Poet . Together with a Proposal for the Encouragement of Poetry in Ireland , 183 A Letter to a very Young Lady , on her Marriage , Resolutions when I come to be Old , 208 221 Thoughts on Various Subjects , Moral and Diverting , A ...
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... young might be instructed , and " ladies nau- seating the parade of the world , " might find a happy retirement . The plan was disconcerted by Bishop Burnet , who , understanding that the Queen intended to give 10,000l . towards the ...
... young might be instructed , and " ladies nau- seating the parade of the world , " might find a happy retirement . The plan was disconcerted by Bishop Burnet , who , understanding that the Queen intended to give 10,000l . towards the ...
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... Young Married Lady , and Thoughts on Education , point out the extent of those studies , which embraced a general knowledge of history , some taste for poetry , and a general acquaintance with books of travels , and moral and ...
... Young Married Lady , and Thoughts on Education , point out the extent of those studies , which embraced a general knowledge of history , some taste for poetry , and a general acquaintance with books of travels , and moral and ...
Strana 15
... young damsels : where ( instead of scissars , needles , and samplers ) pens , compasses , quadrants , books , manuscripts , Greek , Latin , and Hebrew , are to take up their whole * The subsequent passage alludes to Mrs Astell's ...
... young damsels : where ( instead of scissars , needles , and samplers ) pens , compasses , quadrants , books , manuscripts , Greek , Latin , and Hebrew , are to take up their whole * The subsequent passage alludes to Mrs Astell's ...
Strana 21
... young man goes on without hesita- tion ; and though from the beginning to the end of his pretty discourse , he has not used one proper gesture , yet , at the conclusion , the churchwarden pulls his gloves from off his hands ; Pray , who ...
... young man goes on without hesita- tion ; and though from the beginning to the end of his pretty discourse , he has not used one proper gesture , yet , at the conclusion , the churchwarden pulls his gloves from off his hands ; Pray , who ...
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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...