The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Literary essays

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AMS Press, 1907
 

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Strana 400 - I leave to Edward, now Earl of Oxford, my seal of Julius Caesar, as also another seal, supposed to be a young Hercules, both very choice antiques, and set in gold...
Strana 11 - ... or encouragement for popular orators: their giving not only the freedom of the city, but capacity for employments, to several towns in Gaul, Spain, and Germany...
Strana 144 - When she was extremely ill, her physician said, " Madam, you are near the bottom of the hill, but we will endeavour to get you up again.
Strana 205 - ... 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 205 - 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...
Strana 69 - ... hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
Strana 129 - I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life.
Strana 20 - I must believe that the desire of fame has been no inconsiderable motive to quicken you in the pursuit of those actions which will best deserve it. But, at the same time, I must be so plain as to tell your lordship, that if you will not take some care to settle our language, and put it into a state of continuance, I cannot promise that your memory shall be preserved above a hundred years, farther than by imperfect tradition.
Strana 13 - To this succeeded that Licentiousness which entered with the Restoration, and from infecting our Religion and Morals, fell to corrupt our Language; which last was not like to be much improved by those who at that Time made up the Court of King Charles the Second; either such...
Strana 368 - Temple, after long attendance in vain, thought it better to comply with an invitation, given him by the Earl of Berkeley, to attend him to Ireland, as his chaplain and private secretary ; his lordship having been appointed one of the Lords Justices of that kingdom, with the Duke of Bolton and the Earl of Galway, on the 29th June, 1699.

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