The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen1C. Bathurst, 1755 |
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... present he fhew- ed one day to Harley , who having admired the paint- ing and the workmanship , at last spied a figure ftud- ed on the outside of the bottom , which he thought resembled a goose , upon which turning to the doctor ...
... present he fhew- ed one day to Harley , who having admired the paint- ing and the workmanship , at last spied a figure ftud- ed on the outside of the bottom , which he thought resembled a goose , upon which turning to the doctor ...
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... present the doctor happened to dine at the deanery the fame day , and was fo extravagant in his encomiums on Roffengrave's voluntary , that feveral of the company faid , they wifhed they had heard it : Do you , faid Swift , then you ...
... present the doctor happened to dine at the deanery the fame day , and was fo extravagant in his encomiums on Roffengrave's voluntary , that feveral of the company faid , they wifhed they had heard it : Do you , faid Swift , then you ...
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... present . Though perhaps I fhall not be apt to reckon much merit to your lordship upon that score , who having been formerly used to tedious ha- rangues * , and fometimes to as little purpose , will be the readier to pardon this ...
... present . Though perhaps I fhall not be apt to reckon much merit to your lordship upon that score , who having been formerly used to tedious ha- rangues * , and fometimes to as little purpose , will be the readier to pardon this ...
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... present writers express themselves , fitted to the humour of the age ; as they have already done , with great feli- city , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors . However , I thought it fairer dealing to offer the ...
... present writers express themselves , fitted to the humour of the age ; as they have already done , with great feli- city , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors . However , I thought it fairer dealing to offer the ...
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... present your highness , as an un- difputed argument for what I affirm . The originals were pofted fresh upon all gates and corners of streets ; but , returning in a very few hours to take a review , they were all torn down , and fresh ...
... present your highness , as an un- difputed argument for what I affirm . The originals were pofted fresh upon all gates and corners of streets ; but , returning in a very few hours to take a review , they were all torn down , and fresh ...
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Página 173 - In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes gravely back with informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.
Página 140 - 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. For, to enter the Palace of Learning at the great Gate, requires an Expence of Time and Forms; therefore Men of much Haste and little Ceremony, are content to get in by the Back-Door.
Página 24 - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...
Página 4 - Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Página 245 - ... defence. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below : when 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...
Página 57 - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
Página 312 - Too intense a contemplation is not the business of flesh and blood; it must by the necessary course of things, in a little time let go its hold and fall into matter. Lovers, for the sake of celestial converse, are but another sort of Platonics who pretend to see stars and heaven in ladies...
Página 246 - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts without designing them for the noblest ends.
Página 171 - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
Página 45 - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.