The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Band 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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... eyes should be like unto the wrong end of a perspective glass , by which all the objects of na- ture are lessened . For example ; when a true genius looks upon the sky , he immediately catches the idea of a piece of blue lute - string ...
... eyes should be like unto the wrong end of a perspective glass , by which all the objects of na- ture are lessened . For example ; when a true genius looks upon the sky , he immediately catches the idea of a piece of blue lute - string ...
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... eye - witness of things never yet beheld by man , or never in existence ; as thus , Thus have I seen in Araby the blest A phoenix couch'd upon her funeral nest † . But to convince you that nothing is so great which a marvellous genius ...
... eye - witness of things never yet beheld by man , or never in existence ; as thus , Thus have I seen in Araby the blest A phoenix couch'd upon her funeral nest † . But to convince you that nothing is so great which a marvellous genius ...
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... eye , have with felicity copied a smallpox , or been admirable at a toad or a red- herring and seldom are we without geniuses for still- life , which they can work up and stiffen with incredi- ble accuracy . A universal genius rises not ...
... eye , have with felicity copied a smallpox , or been admirable at a toad or a red- herring and seldom are we without geniuses for still- life , which they can work up and stiffen with incredi- ble accuracy . A universal genius rises not ...
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... eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid , then he is not Cupid ; first Venus would mistake him , then she would not mis- take him ...
... eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid , then he is not Cupid ; first Venus would mistake him , then she would not mis- take him ...
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... eye , when we behold Harlequin trim- ming himself with a hatchet , hewing down a tree with a rasor , making his tea in a ... eyes , and sometimes snotty - nose and draggle- tail . Or , of accidents , for persons ; as a lawyer , is called ...
... eye , when we behold Harlequin trim- ming himself with a hatchet , hewing down a tree with a rasor , making his tea in a ... eyes , and sometimes snotty - nose and draggle- tail . Or , of accidents , for persons ; as a lawyer , is called ...
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Seite 417 - 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 112 - 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. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Seite 115 - Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
Seite 113 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Seite 117 - Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: The flutt'ring fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her fav'rite Lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Seite 416 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 111 - 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 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 144 - John was quick, and understood his business very well; but no man alive was more careless in looking into his accounts, or more cheated by partners, apprentices, and servants.