The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 17. köideJ. 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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... natural taste of man , and in particular of the present age . THE taste of the bathos is implanted by nature itself in the soul of man ; till perverted by custom or example , he is taught , or rather compelled to re- lish the sublime ...
... natural taste of man , and in particular of the present age . THE taste of the bathos is implanted by nature itself in the soul of man ; till perverted by custom or example , he is taught , or rather compelled to re- lish the sublime ...
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... ; that poetry is a natural or morbid secretion from the brain . As I would not suddenly stop a cold in the head , or dry up my neigh- bour's B 4 bour's issue , I would as little hinder him from OF SINKING IN POETRY . 7 dered.
... ; that poetry is a natural or morbid secretion from the brain . As I would not suddenly stop a cold in the head , or dry up my neigh- bour's B 4 bour's issue , I would as little hinder him from OF SINKING IN POETRY . 7 dered.
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... nature alone can excel . All I mean , is , to evince the necessity of rules to these lesser geniuses , as well as the usefulness of them to the greater . CHAP . IV . That there is an art of the bathos , or profund . WE come now to prove ...
... nature alone can excel . All I mean , is , to evince the necessity of rules to these lesser geniuses , as well as the usefulness of them to the greater . CHAP . IV . That there is an art of the bathos , or profund . WE come now to prove ...
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... nature is the sky , the sun , moon , stars , & c . The profund of nature is gold , pearls , precious stones , and the treasures of the deep , which are inestimable as unknown . But all that lies between these , as corn , flowers ...
... nature is the sky , the sun , moon , stars , & c . The profund of nature is gold , pearls , precious stones , and the treasures of the deep , which are inestimable as unknown . But all that lies between these , as corn , flowers ...
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... nature , or uniformity of design . He is to mingle bits of the most various , or discordant kinds , landscape , history , portraits , animals ; and connect them with a great deal of flourishing , by head or tail , as it shall please his ...
... nature , or uniformity of design . He is to mingle bits of the most various , or discordant kinds , landscape , history , portraits , animals ; and connect them with a great deal of flourishing , by head or tail , as it shall please his ...
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Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 113 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.