The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and SheridanA. Constable, 1814 |
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... express against those who are possessed of the arcanum Magnum . But at present I am forced to take sanctuary in the British Court , to avoid the revenge of a cruel Spaniard , who has pursued me almost through the whole terraqueous globe ...
... express against those who are possessed of the arcanum Magnum . But at present I am forced to take sanctuary in the British Court , to avoid the revenge of a cruel Spaniard , who has pursued me almost through the whole terraqueous globe ...
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... express myself as simply as Ambrose Philips ? or flow my numbers with the quiet thought- lessness of Mr Welsted ? " * But it may seem somewhat strange to assert , that our proficient should also read the works of those famous poets ...
... express myself as simply as Ambrose Philips ? or flow my numbers with the quiet thought- lessness of Mr Welsted ? " * But it may seem somewhat strange to assert , that our proficient should also read the works of those famous poets ...
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... express it thus , Tho ' he ( as said ) may riches gorge , the spoil Painful in massy vomit shall recoil : Soon shall he perish with a swift decay , Like his own ordure , cast with scorn away . t The second , that whenever you start a ...
... express it thus , Tho ' he ( as said ) may riches gorge , the spoil Painful in massy vomit shall recoil : Soon shall he perish with a swift decay , Like his own ordure , cast with scorn away . t The second , that whenever you start a ...
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... express terins , The chief the care of nations own , And guard , with arms divine , the British throne . And here let it not seem odd , if in this mysterious way of writing , we find the same person , who has before been represented by ...
... express terins , The chief the care of nations own , And guard , with arms divine , the British throne . And here let it not seem odd , if in this mysterious way of writing , we find the same person , who has before been represented by ...
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... express at our neighbours keeping dull company , would lessen , if we reflect- ed , that most people seek companions less to be talk- ed to than to talk . Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think . Never stay dinner for a ...
... express at our neighbours keeping dull company , would lessen , if we reflect- ed , that most people seek companions less to be talk- ed to than to talk . Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think . Never stay dinner for a ...
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Página 331 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 65 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Página 145 - Of these am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I rang'd the crystal wilds of air, In the clear mirror of thy ruling star I saw, alas! some dread...
Página 330 - Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 145 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Página 147 - Warn'd by the sylph, oh pious maid, beware ! This to disclose is all thy guardian can ; Beware of all, but most beware of man ! He said ; when Shock, who thought she slept too long, Leap'd up, and wak'd his mistress with his tongue.
Página 153 - Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Página 172 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Página 335 - See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end; Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot; Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Página 148 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.