The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volumen111814 |
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... seems calculated to live , at least as long as our language and our taste admit no great alterations , I am content to convey some apology along with it . The greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years since , 1696 ...
... seems calculated to live , at least as long as our language and our taste admit no great alterations , I am content to convey some apology along with it . The greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years since , 1696 ...
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... seem to vie with it for a summer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are number of 7 and 9 , from considerations abstruse , have been extol- led by most ; but all , or most of the other digits , have been as mys- tically ...
... seem to vie with it for a summer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are number of 7 and 9 , from considerations abstruse , have been extol- led by most ; but all , or most of the other digits , have been as mys- tically ...
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... seem probable that two such persons had a hand in it ; yet , since he could not name the persons , his fancy was re- jected . I conjecture , ' says another , that it may be a lawyer , that When , on a sudden , he was interrupted by Mr ...
... seem probable that two such persons had a hand in it ; yet , since he could not name the persons , his fancy was re- jected . I conjecture , ' says another , that it may be a lawyer , that When , on a sudden , he was interrupted by Mr ...
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... seem with any reason to be excepted against ; but , to deal freely , the greatest number he should have left untouched , as never suspecting it possible any wrong interpretations could be made of them . The author observes , at the end ...
... seem with any reason to be excepted against ; but , to deal freely , the greatest number he should have left untouched , as never suspecting it possible any wrong interpretations could be made of them . The author observes , at the end ...
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... seems the bookseller will not hear of any such thing , being apprehensive it might spoil the sale of the book . The author cannot conclude this apology with- out making this one reflection ; that , as wit is the noblest and most useful ...
... seems the bookseller will not hear of any such thing , being apprehensive it might spoil the sale of the book . The author cannot conclude this apology with- out making this one reflection ; that , as wit is the noblest and most useful ...
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Página 231 - The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defence.
Página 77 - On their first appearance, our three adventurers met with a very bad reception ; and soon, with great sagacity, guessing out the reason, they quickly began to improve in the good qualities of the town : they writ, and rallied, and rhymed, and sung, and said, and said nothing: they drank, and fought, and whored, and slept, and swore, and took snufF...
Página 162 - For the brain, in its natural position and state of serenity, disposeth its owner to pass his life in the common forms, without any thought of subduing multitudes to his own power, his reasons, or his visions; and the more he shapes his understanding by the pattern of human learning, the less he is inclined to form parties after his particular notions, because that instructs him in his private infirmities, as well as in the stubborn ignorance of the people.
Página 70 - ... the maggots are the best. It is a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But then, lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.
Página 316 - But every single character in Shakespeare is as much an individual, as those in life itself; it is as impossible to find any two alike; and such as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be twins, will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct.
Página 147 - At other times were to be seen several hundred linked together in a circular chain, with every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbour's breech, by which they blew up each other to the shape and size of a tun ; and for that reason, jvith great propriety of speech, did. usually call their bodies, their vessels.
Página 231 - ... it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose curiosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he went, where, expatiating a while, he at last happened to alight upon one of the outward walls of the spider's citadel, which, yielding to the unequal weight, sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavoured to force his passage, and thrice the centre shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was...
Página 45 - I profess to your highness, in the integrity of my heart, that what I am going to say is literally true this minute I am writing...
Página 54 - There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt, particularly that where I am not understood , it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again , that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character shall be judged to contain something extraordinary, either of wit or sublime.
Página 140 - The most accomplished way of using books at present, is two-fold : either, first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or, secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder* and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.