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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... serve for satire ; wherein we are ever to remark , that whoso loses his place , or becomes out of favour with the govern- ment , hath forfeited his share in publick praise and honour . Therefore the truly publick spirited writer ought ...
... serve for satire ; wherein we are ever to remark , that whoso loses his place , or becomes out of favour with the govern- ment , hath forfeited his share in publick praise and honour . Therefore the truly publick spirited writer ought ...
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... serves of making a dinner , that any man can do it with money , and if a professed cook cannot do it without , he has his art for nothing : the same may be said of making a poem , it is easily brought about by him that has a genius ...
... serves of making a dinner , that any man can do it with money , and if a professed cook cannot do it without , he has his art for nothing : the same may be said of making a poem , it is easily brought about by him that has a genius ...
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... serves . For the MACHINES . Take of deities , male and female , as many as you , can use separate them into two equal parts , and keep Jupiter in the middle ; let Juno put him in a ferment , and Venus mollify him . Remember on all ...
... serves . For the MACHINES . Take of deities , male and female , as many as you , can use separate them into two equal parts , and keep Jupiter in the middle ; let Juno put him in a ferment , and Venus mollify him . Remember on all ...
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... about town , that they would not put themselves in a high twitter , when they go to visit a general lying in of his first child ; his officers serving serving as midwives , nurses , and rockers dispensing caudle 88 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
... about town , that they would not put themselves in a high twitter , when they go to visit a general lying in of his first child ; his officers serving serving as midwives , nurses , and rockers dispensing caudle 88 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
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Jonathan Swift Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols. serving as midwives , nurses , and rockers dispensing caudle ; or if they behold the reverend prelates dressing the heads and airing the linen at court ; I beg they will remember that these ...
Jonathan Swift Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols. serving as midwives , nurses , and rockers dispensing caudle ; or if they behold the reverend prelates dressing the heads and airing the linen at court ; I beg they will remember that these ...
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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.