The Works of Jonathan Swift ...G. Bell and Sons, 1900 |
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Strana 8
... leave to present this gentleman to the favour of a civil salute . " His friend advances , and so on , till that they had all saluted her . By this means , the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows , at a loss what to ...
... leave to present this gentleman to the favour of a civil salute . " His friend advances , and so on , till that they had all saluted her . By this means , the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows , at a loss what to ...
Strana 11
... leave them to determine which hath hitherto had , and which for the future ought to have , the preference . " First then comes the most famous and popular lady 1 This letter is introduced : " From my own Apartment , June 29 . " It would ...
... leave them to determine which hath hitherto had , and which for the future ought to have , the preference . " First then comes the most famous and popular lady 1 This letter is introduced : " From my own Apartment , June 29 . " It would ...
Strana 22
... leave off those buttons . " - " Tatler , " No. 21. [ T. S. ] 2 Dr. William Stanley ( 1647-1731 ) , master of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , was Dean of St. Asaph in 1706-31 . In No. 54 of " The Tatler , " he is described as a ...
... leave off those buttons . " - " Tatler , " No. 21. [ T. S. ] 2 Dr. William Stanley ( 1647-1731 ) , master of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , was Dean of St. Asaph in 1706-31 . In No. 54 of " The Tatler , " he is described as a ...
Strana 33
... leaving the former evils to your animadversion . " But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language , I here send you the copy of a letter I received some time ago from a most accomplished person in this ...
... leaving the former evils to your animadversion . " But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language , I here send you the copy of a letter I received some time ago from a most accomplished person in this ...
Strana 34
... leave off play ; but you know ' tis a weakness he's too apt to give into , thô he has as much wit as any man , nobody more . He has lain incog ever since . - The mobb's very quiet with us now . - I believe you thôt I banter'd you in my ...
... leave off play ; but you know ' tis a weakness he's too apt to give into , thô he has as much wit as any man , nobody more . He has lain incog ever since . - The mobb's very quiet with us now . - I believe you thôt I banter'd you in my ...
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Strana 37 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Strana 91 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Strana 307 - Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of sand was consuming by this slow method till there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ? Or, supposing that you might be happy for ever after on condition you would be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one sand in a thousand years : which of these two cases would you make your choice...
Strana 133 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Strana 131 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Strana 3 - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Strana 303 - WHEN the four Indian kings were in this country, about a twelvemonth ago, I often mixed with the rabble and followed them a whole day together, being wonderfully struck with the sight of every^ thing that is new or uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a friend to make many inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer, relating to their manners and conversation,, as also concerning the remarks which they made in this country: for, next to the forming...
Strana 37 - Naunton, Osborn, Daniel the historian, and several others who writ later ; but being men of the court, and affecting the phrases then in fashion, they are often either not to be understood, or appear perfectly ridiculous. " What remedies are to be applied to these evils, I have not room to consider, having, I fear, already taken up most of your paper. Besides, I think it is our office only to represent abuses, and yours to redress them. I am, with great respect, SIR, " Yours,
Strana 304 - ... that is new or uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a friend to make many inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer relating to their manners and conversation, as also concerning the remarks which they made in this country : for next to the forming a right notion of such strangers I should be desirous of learning what ideas they have conceived of us.
Strana 320 - I am glad to hear there are no weightier objections against that reverend body, planted in this city, and I wish there never may. But I should be very sorry that any of them should be so weak, as to imitate a court chaplain in England, who preached against the