Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan SwiftKegan Paul, Trench, 1884 - 284 páginas |
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... pretends to anathematize . With Swift it is no laughing matter . He hates and loathes the meannesses and unrealities of life with the fervour of a prophet of old ; he denounces them with the Burden of Moab . Weakness and de- ception do ...
... pretends to anathematize . With Swift it is no laughing matter . He hates and loathes the meannesses and unrealities of life with the fervour of a prophet of old ; he denounces them with the Burden of Moab . Weakness and de- ception do ...
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... pretend it a demonstration that there never were any , because they are not then to be found . Not to be found ! who has mislaid them ? are they sunk in the abyss of things ? It is certain that in their own nature they were light enough ...
... pretend it a demonstration that there never were any , because they are not then to be found . Not to be found ! who has mislaid them ? are they sunk in the abyss of things ? It is certain that in their own nature they were light enough ...
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... pretend ? What shall I say in return of so invidious an objection ? It ill befits the distance between your highness and me , to send you for ocular conviction to an oven or a sordid lantern . Books , like men their authors , have no ...
... pretend ? What shall I say in return of so invidious an objection ? It ill befits the distance between your highness and me , to send you for ocular conviction to an oven or a sordid lantern . Books , like men their authors , have no ...
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... pretend to deduce his original from Jupiter Capitolinus . At his left hand , beneath the altar , hell seemed to open , and catch at the animals the idol was creating ; to prevent which , certain of his priests hourly flung in pieces of ...
... pretend to deduce his original from Jupiter Capitolinus . At his left hand , beneath the altar , hell seemed to open , and catch at the animals the idol was creating ; to prevent which , certain of his priests hourly flung in pieces of ...
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... pretend utterly to disrelish these polite innovations ; and as to the similitude from diet , they allow the parallel , but are so bold to pro- nounce the example itself a corruption and degeneracy of taste . They tell us that the ...
... pretend utterly to disrelish these polite innovations ; and as to the similitude from diet , they allow the parallel , but are so bold to pro- nounce the example itself a corruption and degeneracy of taste . They tell us that the ...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift,Stanley Lane-Poole Vista completa - 1884 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 125 - 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 81 - 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 133 - When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
Página 221 - 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 217 - ... leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
Página 222 - 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 218 - There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas!
Página 212 - 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 222 - ... 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 227 - 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...