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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... taken to inter- sperse these additions in such a manner , that scarce any book of consequence can be bought , without purchasing something unworthy of the author along with it . But in our own country it is still worse those very ...
... taken to inter- sperse these additions in such a manner , that scarce any book of consequence can be bought , without purchasing something unworthy of the author along with it . But in our own country it is still worse those very ...
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... taken from the History of Ouffle , is the only true and genuine imitation we have in our language of the serious and pompous manner of Cervantes ; for it is not easy to say , why Fielding should call his Joseph Andrews , excellent as it ...
... taken from the History of Ouffle , is the only true and genuine imitation we have in our language of the serious and pompous manner of Cervantes ; for it is not easy to say , why Fielding should call his Joseph Andrews , excellent as it ...
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... taken for a decayed gentleman of Spain . His stature was tall , his visage long , his complexion olive , his brows were black and even , his eyes hollow yet piercing , his nose inclined to aquiline , his beard neglected and mixed with ...
... taken for a decayed gentleman of Spain . His stature was tall , his visage long , his complexion olive , his brows were black and even , his eyes hollow yet piercing , his nose inclined to aquiline , his beard neglected and mixed with ...
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... taken from the best , the last , and most correct editions of their works . That which we use of Prince Arthur , is in duodecimo , 1714 , the fourth edition revised . - POPE . fice to that passion his friend or his God , OF SINKING IN ...
... taken from the best , the last , and most correct editions of their works . That which we use of Prince Arthur , is in duodecimo , 1714 , the fourth edition revised . - POPE . fice to that passion his friend or his God , OF SINKING IN ...
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... taken down by our British poet , by the single happy thought of throwing the mountain into a fit of the colic : Etna , and all the burning mountains , find Their kindled stores with inbred storms of wind Blown up to rage ; and roaring ...
... taken down by our British poet , by the single happy thought of throwing the mountain into a fit of the colic : Etna , and all the burning mountains , find Their kindled stores with inbred storms of wind Blown up to rage ; and roaring ...
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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.