The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 |
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... Those beauties in a female mind , Which raise a flame , that will endure For ever uncorrupt and pure ; If ' tis with reason they complain , This inftant shall restore my reign . I'll fearch where ev'ry virtue dwells , From courts ...
... Those beauties in a female mind , Which raise a flame , that will endure For ever uncorrupt and pure ; If ' tis with reason they complain , This inftant shall restore my reign . I'll fearch where ev'ry virtue dwells , From courts ...
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... those venerable fires . Cadenus is a fubject fit , Grown old in politicks and wit , Carefs'd by minifters of ftate , Of half mankind the dread and hate ; Whate'er vexations love attend , She need no rivals apprehend . Her fex , with ...
... those venerable fires . Cadenus is a fubject fit , Grown old in politicks and wit , Carefs'd by minifters of ftate , Of half mankind the dread and hate ; Whate'er vexations love attend , She need no rivals apprehend . Her fex , with ...
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... those who aim at ridicule Shou'd fix upon some certain rule , Which fairly hints they are in jeft , Elfe he must enter his proteft : For let a man be ne'er fo wife , He may be caught with sober lyes ; A fcience which he never taught ...
... those who aim at ridicule Shou'd fix upon some certain rule , Which fairly hints they are in jeft , Elfe he must enter his proteft : For let a man be ne'er fo wife , He may be caught with sober lyes ; A fcience which he never taught ...
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... ( Those authors he fo oft had nam'd , For learning , wit , and wisdom fam'd ) Was ftruck with love , esteem , and awe , For perfons whom he never faw . Suppofe Cadenus flourish'd then , He must adore fuch god - like men . If one short ...
... ( Those authors he fo oft had nam'd , For learning , wit , and wisdom fam'd ) Was ftruck with love , esteem , and awe , For perfons whom he never faw . Suppofe Cadenus flourish'd then , He must adore fuch god - like men . If one short ...
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... ( Those bully Greeks , who , as the moderns do , Inftead of paying chairmen , run them thro ' , ) Laocoon ftruck the outfide with his fpear , And each imprison'd hero quak'd for fear . Now from all parts the fwelling kennels flow , And ...
... ( Those bully Greeks , who , as the moderns do , Inftead of paying chairmen , run them thro ' , ) Laocoon ftruck the outfide with his fpear , And each imprison'd hero quak'd for fear . Now from all parts the fwelling kennels flow , And ...
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Página 148 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Página 72 - Then the Bell rung, and I went down to put my Lady to Bed, And, God knows, I thought my Money was as safe as my Maidenhead. So when I came up again, I found my Pocket feel very light, But when I search'd, and miss'd my Purse, Lord! I thought I should have sunk outright: Lord! Madam, says Mary, how d'ye do? Indeed...
Página 148 - 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 39 - Having through all the village past, To a small cottage came at last, Where dwelt a good old honest ye'man, Call'd in the neighbourhood Philemon ; Who kindly did these saints invite In his poor hut to pass the night ; And then the hospitable...
Página 265 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 303 - tis a shocking sight, And he's engaged to-morrow night; My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He loved the Dean— (I lead a heart,) But dearest friends, they say, must part. His time was come: he ran his race; We hope he's in a better place.
Página 43 - what's this you tell us ? I hope you don't believe me jealous ? But yet, methinks, I feel it true ; And really yours is budding too : — Nay — now I cannot stir my foot ; It feels as if 'twere taking root.
Página 56 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Página 304 - To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme : His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste. I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.
Página 125 - 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...