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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... plain and direct road is paved to their os , or sublime ; no track has been yet chalked out to arrive at our or profund . The Latins , as they came between the Greeks and us , make use of the word altitudo , which implies equally ...
... plain and direct road is paved to their os , or sublime ; no track has been yet chalked out to arrive at our or profund . The Latins , as they came between the Greeks and us , make use of the word altitudo , which implies equally ...
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... plain to our great authors , than that the world hath long been weary of natural things . How much the contrary are formed to please , is evident from the universal applause daily given to the admirable entertainments of harlequins and ...
... plain to our great authors , than that the world hath long been weary of natural things . How much the contrary are formed to please , is evident from the universal applause daily given to the admirable entertainments of harlequins and ...
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... plain , Digests his lightening , and distils his rain || . A. Philips on the death of queen Mary . 1 Blackm . opt . edit . duod . 1716. p . 172 . Black . Ps . civ . p . 263 . † Anon . Now Now he is a WRESTLER . Me in his griping 14 ...
... plain , Digests his lightening , and distils his rain || . A. Philips on the death of queen Mary . 1 Blackm . opt . edit . duod . 1716. p . 172 . Black . Ps . civ . p . 263 . † Anon . Now Now he is a WRESTLER . Me in his griping 14 ...
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... plain light ( which is seldom ) they are only shapeless and ugly monsters . I. D. C. G. I. O. 7. The frogs are such , as can neither walk nor fly , but can leap and bound to admiration ; they live generally in the bottom of a ditch ...
... plain light ( which is seldom ) they are only shapeless and ugly monsters . I. D. C. G. I. O. 7. The frogs are such , as can neither walk nor fly , but can leap and bound to admiration ; they live generally in the bottom of a ditch ...
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... plain , And knots of scarlet riband deck his mane f . Of certain Cudgel - players . They brandish high in air their threat'ning staves , Their hands a woven guard of osier saves , In which they fix their hazel weapon's end . Who would ...
... plain , And knots of scarlet riband deck his mane f . Of certain Cudgel - players . They brandish high in air their threat'ning staves , Their hands a woven guard of osier saves , In which they fix their hazel weapon's end . Who would ...
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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.