The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Volume 13Bickers, 1883 |
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Addison Æsop Ambrose Philips ancient appear Arbuthnot barrier treaty bathos beasts Blackmore called Cato character church court critics Curll Dennis Dick Doctor Double Falsehood Duke Dunciad Edmund Curll excellent eyes fear Fourth Doctor gentleman give hand hath head hear Homer honour humour Jane Wenham John Dennis king Kit-cat Club ladies learned letter Lintot live Lord mankind manner master Miscellany Mohocks nature neighbours never observed occasion person piece poem poet poetry poor Pope pray printed profund puns pyed horses Quadrille Queen reader reason remarkable ridicule Rule satire Scriblerus Scriblerus Club Second Doctor sense shew spirit sweet Molly Swift thee things Third Doctor thou thought tion Tom D'Urfey true turn unto verse WARTON whole wife woman women wonder words writ write
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Página 152 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or...
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Página 142 - Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
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Página 147 - With his broad sabre next, a chief in years, The hoary Majesty of Spades appears, Puts forth one manly leg, to sight reveal'd, The rest his many-colour'd robe conceal'd.
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