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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... leaves to gild the fields of air § . Then a FULLER . -th ' exhaling reeks , that secret rise , Born on rebounding sunbeams through the skies , Are thicken'd , wrought , and whiten'd , till they grow A heavenly fleece ¶ * Black . Ps . p ...
... leaves to gild the fields of air § . Then a FULLER . -th ' exhaling reeks , that secret rise , Born on rebounding sunbeams through the skies , Are thicken'd , wrought , and whiten'd , till they grow A heavenly fleece ¶ * Black . Ps . p ...
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... leave the heavy , panting hills behind † . You here see the hills not trembling , but shaking off woods from their backs , to run the faster : after this you are presented with a foot - race of mountains and woods , where the woods ...
... leave the heavy , panting hills behind † . You here see the hills not trembling , but shaking off woods from their backs , to run the faster : after this you are presented with a foot - race of mountains and woods , where the woods ...
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... leaves along the lake Such frothy furrows , such a foamy track , That all the waters of the deep appear Hoary with age , or gray with sudden fear * . Such are But perhaps even these are excelled by the ensuing . Now the resisted flames ...
... leaves along the lake Such frothy furrows , such a foamy track , That all the waters of the deep appear Hoary with age , or gray with sudden fear * . Such are But perhaps even these are excelled by the ensuing . Now the resisted flames ...
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... die ! Oh most unkind ! To die , and leave poor Colinet behind ! And yet , why blame I her ‡ ? • Amb . Philips on Miss Cuzzone . + Philips's Pastorals . Ibid . With no less simplicity does he suppose , that shep- With 38 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
... die ! Oh most unkind ! To die , and leave poor Colinet behind ! And yet , why blame I her ‡ ? • Amb . Philips on Miss Cuzzone . + Philips's Pastorals . Ibid . With no less simplicity does he suppose , that shep- With 38 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
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... leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practise them with more success . Of greater truths I now prepare to tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewel ¶ . Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical idea ; as ...
... leave the arts of poetry and verse To them that practise them with more success . Of greater truths I now prepare to tell , And so at once , dear friend and muse , farewel ¶ . Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical idea ; as ...
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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.