The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Zväzok 9Bickers, 1883 |
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... Tongue , in a Letter to the most Honourable Robert , Earl of Oxford and Mortimer , Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain , An Essay on Modern Education , Hints toward an Essay on Conversation , • A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet ...
... Tongue , in a Letter to the most Honourable Robert , Earl of Oxford and Mortimer , Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain , An Essay on Modern Education , Hints toward an Essay on Conversation , • A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet ...
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... tongue , * which , without some timely remedy , will suffer more by the false refine- ments of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . And this is what I design chiefly to enlarge upon , leaving the ...
... tongue , * which , without some timely remedy , will suffer more by the false refine- ments of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . And this is what I design chiefly to enlarge upon , leaving the ...
Strana 65
... tongues , venison - pasty , and stale beer , took leave of the family . But the gentleman would needs see me part of the way , and carry me a short cut through his own ground , which he told me would save half a mile's riding . This ...
... tongues , venison - pasty , and stale beer , took leave of the family . But the gentleman would needs see me part of the way , and carry me a short cut through his own ground , which he told me would save half a mile's riding . This ...
Strana 87
... tongue ; but I differ from him in the opinion , that the thing itself is peculiar to the English nation , because the contrary may be found in many Spanish , Italian , and French produc- tions ; and particularly , whoever has a taste ...
... tongue ; but I differ from him in the opinion , that the thing itself is peculiar to the English nation , because the contrary may be found in many Spanish , Italian , and French produc- tions ; and particularly , whoever has a taste ...
Strana 105
... tongue to as great a perfection as it can well bear ; and yet how great a master he was of it , as I think , never appeared so much as it will in the following letters , wherein the style appears so very different , according to the ...
... tongue to as great a perfection as it can well bear ; and yet how great a master he was of it , as I think , never appeared so much as it will in the following letters , wherein the style appears so very different , according to the ...
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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.