The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Band 7J. 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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... face , Borrow from every one a grace ; Virgil and Epicurus will not do , Their courting a retreat like you , Unless I put in Caesar's learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of souls . V. Let not old Rome ...
... face , Borrow from every one a grace ; Virgil and Epicurus will not do , Their courting a retreat like you , Unless I put in Caesar's learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of souls . V. Let not old Rome ...
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... face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long sweeping train Of comments and disputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How soon have you restor'd her charms And rid her of her lumber and her books , Drest ...
... face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long sweeping train Of comments and disputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How soon have you restor'd her charms And rid her of her lumber and her books , Drest ...
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... face and ear acute , Advanc'd on tiptoe , lean'd his head , To overhear the grand dispute ; To learn what Northern kings design , Or from Whitehall some new express , Papists disarm'd , or fall of coin ; For sure ( thought he ) it can't ...
... face and ear acute , Advanc'd on tiptoe , lean'd his head , To overhear the grand dispute ; To learn what Northern kings design , Or from Whitehall some new express , Papists disarm'd , or fall of coin ; For sure ( thought he ) it can't ...
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... face , Flies like a squib from place to place , And travels not , but runs a race . From Paris gazette a - la - main , This day arriv'd , without his train , Mordanto in a week from Spain . A messenger comes all a - reek Mordanto at ...
... face , Flies like a squib from place to place , And travels not , but runs a race . From Paris gazette a - la - main , This day arriv'd , without his train , Mordanto in a week from Spain . A messenger comes all a - reek Mordanto at ...
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... face , And fill Jack Smith with hopes to keep his place : By force of wine , ev'n Scarborough is brave , Hal grows more pert , and Somers not so grave : Wine can give Portland wit , and Cleaveland sense , Montague learning , Bolton ...
... face , And fill Jack Smith with hopes to keep his place : By force of wine , ev'n Scarborough is brave , Hal grows more pert , and Somers not so grave : Wine can give Portland wit , and Cleaveland sense , Montague learning , Bolton ...
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Seite 41 - force Apply'd at bottom stops its course : Doom'd ever in suspense to dwell, 'Tis now no kettle, but a bell. A wooden jack, which had almost 65 Lost by disuse the art to roast, A sudden alteration feels, Increas'd by new intestine wheels; And, what exalts the wonder more, The number made the motion
Seite 287 - WE are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features One of us in glass is set, One of us you 'll find in jet. T' other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you. XXI.
Seite 41 - 75 Had never left each other's side : The chimney to a steeple grown, The jack would not be left alone ; But, up against the steeple rear'd, Became a clock, and still adher'd ; 80 And still its love to houshold cares, By a shrill voice at noon, declares, Warning the cookmaid not to burn That
Seite 80 - Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As "What's o'clock?" And, "How's the wind?" " Whose chariot's that we left behind?" 90 Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs * ; Or, " Have you nothing new to day " From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ?
Seite 111 - She noted all she ever read ! And had a most discerning head ! 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit 760 Will condescend to take a bit.
Seite 113 - And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, 820 Talks in a high romantick strain; Or whether he at last descends To act with less
Seite 80 - My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross. 100 Yet some I know with envy swell, Because they see me us'd so well:
Seite 353 - die in his calling, He stopt at the George for a bottle of sack, And promis'd to pay for it when he came back. His waistcoat, and stockings, and breeches, were white; His cap had a new cherry riband to tye 't. The maids to the doors and the balconies ran, •• And
Seite 82 - could I see my country seat! There leaning near a gentle brook, Sleep, or peruse some ancient book ; 130 And there in sweet oblivion drown Those cares that haunt the court and town *. THE AUTHOR UPON HIMSELF. 1713. [A few of the first lines are wanting.] * * * By an
Seite 330 - Let them neither starve nor stuff: And, that you may have your due, Let your neighbours carve for you. [This comparison will hold, Could it well in rhyme be told, How conversing, listening, thinking, Justly may resemble drinking ; For a friend a glass you fill, What is this but to