The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper & brothers, 1854 - 297 Seiten |
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... sure , dared this experiment , but yet their success was encoura- ging . One gentleman made a point of asking the Dean , whether his uncle Godwin had not given him his education . Swift , who hated that subject cordially , and , in ...
... sure , dared this experiment , but yet their success was encoura- ging . One gentleman made a point of asking the Dean , whether his uncle Godwin had not given him his education . Swift , who hated that subject cordially , and , in ...
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... sure " which it brings down , says : - cen- " And what is yet worse , it is too well known that the bad consequence of this opinion affects those among us who are not the least liable to such reproaches far- ther than the misfortune of ...
... sure " which it brings down , says : - cen- " And what is yet worse , it is too well known that the bad consequence of this opinion affects those among us who are not the least liable to such reproaches far- ther than the misfortune of ...
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... sure never to see his child there . ' " When she was extremely ill , her physician said , ' Madam , you are near the bottom of the hill , but we will endeavour to get you up again . ' She answered , ' Doctor , I fear I shall be out of ...
... sure never to see his child there . ' " When she was extremely ill , her physician said , ' Madam , you are near the bottom of the hill , but we will endeavour to get you up again . ' She answered , ' Doctor , I fear I shall be out of ...
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... sure I could have borne the rack much better than those killing , killing words of yours . Sometimes I have resolved to die without seeing you more ; but those resolves , to your misfortune , did not last long ; for there is something ...
... sure I could have borne the rack much better than those killing , killing words of yours . Sometimes I have resolved to die without seeing you more ; but those resolves , to your misfortune , did not last long ; for there is something ...
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... sure , seriously rejoices with me at the period of my labours . To him , therefore , having brought this long work to a conclusion , I desire to dedicate it , and to have the honour and satisfaction of placing together in this manner ...
... sure , seriously rejoices with me at the period of my labours . To him , therefore , having brought this long work to a conclusion , I desire to dedicate it , and to have the honour and satisfaction of placing together in this manner ...
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Seite 263 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, — and die at home at last.
Seite 127 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Seite 290 - Had she a brother ? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh ! it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none.
Seite 127 - And you, who never fell from pride : You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) — The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent these pranks no more. — I to such blockheads set my wit ! I damn such fools ! — -Go, go, you're bit.
Seite 88 - They were neither of them dissatisfied with the knight's determination, because neither of them found himself in the wrong by it : upon which we made the best of our way to the assizes. The court was sat before Sir Roger came, but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them : who, for his reputation in the country, took occasion to whisper in the judge's ' ear, that he was glad his lordship had met with so much good...
Seite 185 - Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Seite 35 - Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the deaths of the old.
Seite 143 - tis his fancy to run, At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Seite 25 - When I came to the ante-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a Master of Requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.
Seite 49 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.