Selections from the prose writings of Jonathan Swift, with preface and notes by S. Lane-PooleKegan Paul & Company, 1884 - 284 páginas |
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... Gulliver , and an inquisitive interest in Stella and Vanessa , will carry one comfortably through the world , and it were unreasonable to require more of the harassed reader in an age when every one is a Deucalion and PREFACE.
... Gulliver , and an inquisitive interest in Stella and Vanessa , will carry one comfortably through the world , and it were unreasonable to require more of the harassed reader in an age when every one is a Deucalion and PREFACE.
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... interest and in the Establishment , which formed the keynote to Swift's politics , and the ground of his secession to the Tories . Of the rest of the selection little need be said . It was decided that it must be limited to prose ...
... interest and in the Establishment , which formed the keynote to Swift's politics , and the ground of his secession to the Tories . Of the rest of the selection little need be said . It was decided that it must be limited to prose ...
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... interest : others contain far - reaching views on the melancholy condition of Ireland under English rule . Many notable extracts might be made in illustration of the state of the country and the corruption of the govern- ment ; but for ...
... interest : others contain far - reaching views on the melancholy condition of Ireland under English rule . Many notable extracts might be made in illustration of the state of the country and the corruption of the govern- ment ; but for ...
Página xxviii
... interest and admiration of all ages . The troubled spirit may rest , -ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit , -but the sad proud story will not be forgotten while there are ears to hear and hearts to understand . The ...
... interest and admiration of all ages . The troubled spirit may rest , -ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit , -but the sad proud story will not be forgotten while there are ears to hear and hearts to understand . The ...
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... interest of our vast flourishing body , as well as of myself , for whom , I know by long experience , he has professed , and still continues , a peculiar malice . It is not unlikely that , when your highness will one day peruse what I ...
... interest of our vast flourishing body , as well as of myself , for whom , I know by long experience , he has professed , and still continues , a peculiar malice . It is not unlikely that , when your highness will one day peruse what I ...
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Página 135 - We next went to the School of Languages, where three Professors sat in Consultation upon improving that of their own Country. The first Project was to shorten Discourse by cutting Polysyllables into one, and leaving out Verbs and Participles; because in Reality all things imaginable are but Nouns.
Página 231 - Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentlemen. As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers, we may be assured, will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive and dressing them hot from the knife as we do roasting pigs.
Página 232 - Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa, who came from thence to London above twenty years ago, and in conversation told my friend that in his country when any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality as a prime dainty; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his Imperial Majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court, in joints...
Página 222 - The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE, and OUGHT to be, as FREE a people as your brethren in England.
Página 229 - ... children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, How this number shall be reared and provided for? which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither build houses (I mean in the country), nor cultivate land...
Página 232 - ... it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty; which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.
Página 91 - Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage at first was very prosperous. It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the northwest of Van Diemen's Land.
Página 237 - But before something of that kind shall be advanced in contradiction to my scheme and offering a better, I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two -points: first, as things now stand, how they will be able to find food and raiment for...
Página 80 - ... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
Página 128 - He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting, " it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.