The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Zväzok 9Bickers, 1883 |
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Strana 11
... able to consult the author himself about his meaning , for commentators are a sect that has little share in my esteem : your elabo- rate writings have , among many others , this advan- tage , that their author is still alive , and ready ...
... able to consult the author himself about his meaning , for commentators are a sect that has little share in my esteem : your elabo- rate writings have , among many others , this advan- tage , that their author is still alive , and ready ...
Strana 12
... able to your most humble servant , " OBADIAH GREENHAT . " I own this is clean , and Mr. Greenhat has con- vinced me that I have writ nonsense , yet am I not at all offended at him . * " Letters from Hampstead say , there is a coxcomb ...
... able to your most humble servant , " OBADIAH GREENHAT . " I own this is clean , and Mr. Greenhat has con- vinced me that I have writ nonsense , yet am I not at all offended at him . * " Letters from Hampstead say , there is a coxcomb ...
Strana 15
... able to arrive at such a pitch of perfection , as to be above the laws of matter and motion ; laws which are con- siderably enforced by the principles usually imbibed * Paul Lorraine was the ordinary of Newgate . + The subsequent ...
... able to arrive at such a pitch of perfection , as to be above the laws of matter and motion ; laws which are con- siderably enforced by the principles usually imbibed * Paul Lorraine was the ordinary of Newgate . + The subsequent ...
Strana 19
... able , it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congrega- tions , for no reason in the world , but because it is spoken extempore ; for ordinary minds are wholly governed by their ...
... able , it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congrega- tions , for no reason in the world , but because it is spoken extempore ; for ordinary minds are wholly governed by their ...
Strana 27
... advanced , as to be able even to make a good orator of a pair of bellows . He lately exhibited a * Dr. James Ford , who professed to remove impediments in speech.j specimen of his skill in this way , of which THE TATLER , No. LXX . 27.
... advanced , as to be able even to make a good orator of a pair of bellows . He lately exhibited a * Dr. James Ford , who professed to remove impediments in speech.j specimen of his skill in this way , of which THE TATLER , No. LXX . 27.
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Strana 293 - 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 118 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, (all covered with powder,) that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the...
Strana 118 - 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 vain does the busy art of man pretend to...
Strana 266 - This day, being Sunday, January 28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person ever was blessed with.
Strana 353 - 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 353 - ... 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 215 - Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Strana 329 - A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF GENTEEL AND INGENIOUS CONVERSATION, ACCORDING TO THE MOST POLITE MODE AND METHOD, NOW USED AT COURT, AND IN THE BEST COMPANIES OF ENGLAND.
Strana 214 - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.
Strana 40 - 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 way of writing, upon which I shall make some remarks. It is in these terms. "'SiR, "'I cou'dnt get the things you sent for all about Town. — I thot to ha come down myself, and then I'd ha' broufum; but I han't don't, and I believe I can't do't, that's pozz.