The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 17J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... less nice than our ancestors . If an art is to be estimated by its success , I appeal to experience , whether there have not been , in proportion to their number , as many starving good poets , as bad ones ? Nevertheless , in making ...
... less nice than our ancestors . If an art is to be estimated by its success , I appeal to experience , whether there have not been , in proportion to their number , as many starving good poets , as bad ones ? Nevertheless , in making ...
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... less copious ge- niuses under proper classes , and ( the better to give their pictures to the reader ) under the names of ani- mals of some sort or other ; whereby he will be en- abled , at the first sight of such as shall daily come ...
... less copious ge- niuses under proper classes , and ( the better to give their pictures to the reader ) under the names of ani- mals of some sort or other ; whereby he will be en- abled , at the first sight of such as shall daily come ...
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... less remark- able in the circumstances . In flaming heaps the raging ocean rolls , Whose livid waves involve despairing souls ; The liquid burnings dreadful colours shew , Some deeply red and others faintly blue * . Could the most ...
... less remark- able in the circumstances . In flaming heaps the raging ocean rolls , Whose livid waves involve despairing souls ; The liquid burnings dreadful colours shew , Some deeply red and others faintly blue * . Could the most ...
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... ! Oh most unkind ! To die , and leave poor Colinet behind ! And yet , why blame I her ‡ ? • Amb . Philips on Miss Cuzzone . + Philips's Pastorals . Ibid . With no less simplicity does he suppose , that shep- With 38 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
... ! Oh most unkind ! To die , and leave poor Colinet behind ! And yet , why blame I her ‡ ? • Amb . Philips on Miss Cuzzone . + Philips's Pastorals . Ibid . With no less simplicity does he suppose , that shep- With 38 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
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Jonathan Swift Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols. With no less simplicity does he suppose , that shep- herdesses tear their hair and beat their breasts at their own deaths : Ye brighter maids , faint emblems of my fair , With looks cast down ...
Jonathan Swift Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols. With no less simplicity does he suppose , that shep- herdesses tear their hair and beat their breasts at their own deaths : Ye brighter maids , faint emblems of my fair , With looks cast down ...
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Página 416 - But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year...
Página 59 - THE DESCRIPTIONS. For a tempest.—" Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightning, and of thunder, the loudest you can, quantum sufficit.
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