The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Zväzok 6J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 439
... plainly born down by numbers , and betrayed by those who promised to assist me . " In the last place , you are to take notice of certain certain choice phrases scattered through the let- ter ; some THE TATLER , NO . CCXxx . 439.
... plainly born down by numbers , and betrayed by those who promised to assist me . " In the last place , you are to take notice of certain certain choice phrases scattered through the let- ter ; some THE TATLER , NO . CCXxx . 439.
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Strana 277 - ... because it was possible she might be conversant in romances,) and by her judgment was guided whether to receive or reject it.
Strana 402 - ... hand. The virgin, who it seems was one of the nine sisters that attended on the Goddess of Fame, smiled with an ineffable grace at their meeting and retired.
Strana 376 - It must be allowed, that Esquire Bicker'staff is of all authors the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense. You will be pleased, Sir, to pardon this expression, for the same reason for which you once desired us to excuse you, when you seemed any thing dull. Most writers, like the generality of Paul Lorraine's Saints, seem to place a peculiar vanity in dying hard.
Strana 405 - Virgil rose from the table to meet him ; and though he was an acceptable guest to all, he appeared more such to the learned, than the military worthies. The next man astonished the whole table with his appearance. He was slow, solemn, and silent in his behaviour, and wore a raiment curiously wrought with hieroglyphics.
Strana 401 - It had four great folding-doors that faced the four several quarters of the world. On the top of it was enthroned the Goddess of the mountain, who smiled upon her votaries, and sounded the silver trumpet which had called them up, and cheered them in their passage to her palace. They had now formed themselves into several divisions ; a band of historians taking their stations at each door, according to the persons whom they were to introduce.
Strana 326 - Therefore it seemeth to me that the truest way to understand conversation is to know the faults and errors to which it is subject, and from thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated, because it requireth few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire without any great genius or study.
Strana 411 - I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mob and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Strana 463 - It is certainly the best ingredient toward that kind of satire which is most useful, and gives the least offence; which, instead of lashing, laughs men out of their follies and vices; and is the character that gives Horace the preference to Juvenal.
Strana 412 - I should be glad you would bestow some advice upon several young readers in our churches, who coming up from the university full fraught with admiration of our town politeness, will needs correct the style of their prayer-books.
Strana 403 - Homer, and sat down down by him. It was expected that Plato would himself have taken a place next to his master Socrates ; but on a sudden there was heard a great clamour of disputants at the door, who appeared with Aristotle at the head of them. That philosopher, with some rudeness, but great strength of reason, convinced the whole table, that a title to the fifth place was his due, and took it accordingly.