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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... Thoughts on various Subjects , by Mr Pope , A wonderful Prophecy , The Country Post , God's Revenge against Punning , 205 • 223 · 245 255 267 277 283 289 307 . 309 312 314 315 316 317 A true and faithful Narrative of what passed in ...
... Thoughts on various Subjects , by Mr Pope , A wonderful Prophecy , The Country Post , God's Revenge against Punning , 205 • 223 · 245 255 267 277 283 289 307 . 309 312 314 315 316 317 A true and faithful Narrative of what passed in ...
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... thought on . Some sallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth , ( supposed in charity , as it was in truth , to be the time in which we wrote them ) ; others to the gaiety of our minds at certain junctures common to all men . The ...
... thought on . Some sallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth , ( supposed in charity , as it was in truth , to be the time in which we wrote them ) ; others to the gaiety of our minds at certain junctures common to all men . The ...
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... thought unlikely to reach the future , but unworthy even of the present age ; not our stu- * Johnson justly remarks , that , in this overstrained and cla- morous complaint , violations of property are said to be com- mitted for the sake ...
... thought unlikely to reach the future , but unworthy even of the present age ; not our stu- * Johnson justly remarks , that , in this overstrained and cla- morous complaint , violations of property are said to be com- mitted for the sake ...
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... thoughts . Incontinently I left Madrid by the advice of friends , have been pursued , dogged , and waylaid through several na- tions , and even now scarce think myself secure within the sacred walls of this palace . It has been my good ...
... thoughts . Incontinently I left Madrid by the advice of friends , have been pursued , dogged , and waylaid through several na- tions , and even now scarce think myself secure within the sacred walls of this palace . It has been my good ...
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... thought , and could not on a sudden , Knead up with unskimm'd milk this reasoning pudding . " Blackmore , p . 70 . Dr WA ARTON Then he is an ATTORNEY . Job , as a OF SINKING IN POETRY . 41 Specimen of Scriblerus's Reports, his Annus ...
... thought , and could not on a sudden , Knead up with unskimm'd milk this reasoning pudding . " Blackmore , p . 70 . Dr WA ARTON Then he is an ATTORNEY . Job , as a OF SINKING IN POETRY . 41 Specimen of Scriblerus's Reports, his Annus ...
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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.