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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... lives , and according to the dis- positions we were in , we have written some things , which we may wish never to have thought on . Some sallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth , ( supposed in charity , as it was in truth , to be ...
... lives , and according to the dis- positions we were in , we have written some things , which we may wish never to have thought on . Some sallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth , ( supposed in charity , as it was in truth , to be ...
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... live in peace . These men , while they enjoy the crystal stream of Heli- con , envy us our common water , which , ( thank our stars ) though it is somewhat muddy , flows in much greater abundance . Nor is this the greatest injustice ...
... live in peace . These men , while they enjoy the crystal stream of Heli- con , envy us our common water , which , ( thank our stars ) though it is somewhat muddy , flows in much greater abundance . Nor is this the greatest injustice ...
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... live they were intended to designate . The Rev. D. D. a General C. and the Right Hon . E. of S. , may be imaginary persons , but there is no doubt that almost all the rest are found exactly to corres- pond with the initials of living ...
... live they were intended to designate . The Rev. D. D. a General C. and the Right Hon . E. of S. , may be imaginary persons , but there is no doubt that almost all the rest are found exactly to corres- pond with the initials of living ...
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... live without any food ( though from the for- mer course of their lives a very little will be deemed sufficient ) , the masters of calculation will , we believe , agree , that out of those profits the said persons might be subsisted in a ...
... live without any food ( though from the for- mer course of their lives a very little will be deemed sufficient ) , the masters of calculation will , we believe , agree , that out of those profits the said persons might be subsisted in a ...
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... lives , liberties , and fortunes of all the rest , I believe nobody will deny . It is no less true in fact , that reams of paper , and above a square mile of skins of vellum , have been employed to no purpose to settle peace among those ...
... lives , liberties , and fortunes of all the rest , I believe nobody will deny . It is no less true in fact , that reams of paper , and above a square mile of skins of vellum , have been employed to no purpose to settle peace among those ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 331 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 65 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Seite 145 - Of these am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I rang'd the crystal wilds of air, In the clear mirror of thy ruling star I saw, alas! some dread...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.