The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinJ.F. and C. Rivington, 1787 - 488 ページ |
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... mind : which , per- haps , for a lefs purchase , would be thought but an indifferent bargain . " As his Lordship has fairly paid the purchase , it would be hard if he should be denied the title . The business now was , to find out a ...
... mind : which , per- haps , for a lefs purchase , would be thought but an indifferent bargain . " As his Lordship has fairly paid the purchase , it would be hard if he should be denied the title . The business now was , to find out a ...
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... mind , as in his outward form , so that little of his former self remained . To draw his character at length , from obfervations made at fuch a period , was the height of injustice ; and yet his Lordship had no opportunity of knowing ...
... mind , as in his outward form , so that little of his former self remained . To draw his character at length , from obfervations made at fuch a period , was the height of injustice ; and yet his Lordship had no opportunity of knowing ...
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... mind of certain paintings to be feen at the optician's in St. Paul's church - yard , where we behold fome fcattered and distorted fea- tures , covered with blotches of various colours , fo that we cannot difcover what it is intended to ...
... mind of certain paintings to be feen at the optician's in St. Paul's church - yard , where we behold fome fcattered and distorted fea- tures , covered with blotches of various colours , fo that we cannot difcover what it is intended to ...
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... mind which a young man of high spirit must have been in , ftances , produced confequences ftructive of his future fortunes . For , in fuch a state , he could not bear to give the neceffary application to fome of the more dry parts of ...
... mind which a young man of high spirit must have been in , ftances , produced confequences ftructive of his future fortunes . For , in fuch a state , he could not bear to give the neceffary application to fome of the more dry parts of ...
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... in another country ; and he might probably never have fallen into the hands of that particular friend , who was perhaps the only one living , capable of forming 1 · forming his mind to thofe great things which DOCTOR SWIFT .
... in another country ; and he might probably never have fallen into the hands of that particular friend , who was perhaps the only one living , capable of forming 1 · forming his mind to thofe great things which DOCTOR SWIFT .
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443 ページ - But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
441 ページ - That, although he hated the Yahoos of this Country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious Qualities, than he did a Gnnayh (a Bird of Prey) for its Cruelty, or a sharp Stone for cutting his Hoof. But when a Creature pretending to Reason could be capable of such Enormities, he dreaded lest the Corruption of that Faculty might be worse than Brutality itself.
448 ページ - No, we" had rather talk with you than drink with you.' ' But, if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drunk with me.
41 ページ - than I can say ; I never remember any weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet, or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives it, at the end of the year 'tis all very well.
288 ページ - From whence that decency of mind, So lovely in the female kind, Where not one careless thought intrudes, Less' modest than the speech of prudes ; Where never blush was call'd in aid, That spurious virtue in a maid, A virtue but at second-hand ; They blush because they understand.
150 ページ - I always loved you just so much the worse for your station ; for, in your public capacity, you have often angered me to the heart, but, as a private man, never once.
169 ページ - I took Parnell this morning, and we walked to see poor Harrison. I had the hundred pounds in my pocket. I told Parnell I was afraid to knock at the door; my mind misgave me. I knocked, and his man in tears told me his master was dead an hour before.
111 ページ - I am altogether a stranger) did, a month or two ago, vindicate me from having any concern in it ? Should not Mr. Steele have first expostulated with me as a friend ? Have I deserved this usage from Mr. Steele, who knows very well that my lord treasurer has kept him in his employment upon my...
256 ページ - Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With friendship and esteem possest, I ne'er admitted Love a guest.
244 ページ - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.