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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... thee as my best friend ; for either the Stars and my Art are deceitful , or the destined time is come which is to manifest MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS to the world , and thou the person chosen by fate for this task . What thou seest in me is a ...
... thee as my best friend ; for either the Stars and my Art are deceitful , or the destined time is come which is to manifest MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS to the world , and thou the person chosen by fate for this task . What thou seest in me is a ...
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... thee , my friend , whom Fate has marked for my Historio- grapher , I leave these my Commentaries , and others of my works . No more - be faithful and impartial . ” He soon after performed his promise , and left me the Commentaries ...
... thee , my friend , whom Fate has marked for my Historio- grapher , I leave these my Commentaries , and others of my works . No more - be faithful and impartial . ” He soon after performed his promise , and left me the Commentaries ...
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... thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid , then he is not Cupid ; first Ve- nus would mistake him ...
... thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid , then he is not Cupid ; first Ve- nus would mistake him ...
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... thee known , In which I melt the golden metal down ? Treasures , from whence I deal out light as fast , As all my stars and lavish suns can waste . ‡ Cleveland Ambrose Philips to Cuzzona . Job , p . 108 . The same author has amplified a ...
... thee known , In which I melt the golden metal down ? Treasures , from whence I deal out light as fast , As all my stars and lavish suns can waste . ‡ Cleveland Ambrose Philips to Cuzzona . Job , p . 108 . The same author has amplified a ...
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... thee Shall ratify a strict confederacy ; Wild beasts their savage temper shall forget , And for a firm alliance with thee treat ; The finny tyrant of the spacious seas Shall send a scaly embassy for peace ; His plighted faith the ...
... thee Shall ratify a strict confederacy ; Wild beasts their savage temper shall forget , And for a firm alliance with thee treat ; The finny tyrant of the spacious seas Shall send a scaly embassy for peace ; His plighted faith the ...
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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.