The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Band 12J. 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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... hundred that have subscribed to my book , I do not hear of as many more in this nation , that have common sense . My cousin Pennyfeather and Will . Phillips drink your health . I cough , but I am otherwise well ; and till I cease to ...
... hundred that have subscribed to my book , I do not hear of as many more in this nation , that have common sense . My cousin Pennyfeather and Will . Phillips drink your health . I cough , but I am otherwise well ; and till I cease to ...
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... hundred words , what would formerly have cost me ten . I can write epigrams of fifty distichs , which might be squeezed into one . I have gone the round of all my stories three or four times with the younger people , and begin them ...
... hundred words , what would formerly have cost me ten . I can write epigrams of fifty distichs , which might be squeezed into one . I have gone the round of all my stories three or four times with the younger people , and begin them ...
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... hundred miles off , it is of no more use than if I told how handsome I was when I was young . The worst of it is , that lying is of no use ; for the people here will not believe one half of what is true . If I can prevail on any one to ...
... hundred miles off , it is of no more use than if I told how handsome I was when I was young . The worst of it is , that lying is of no use ; for the people here will not believe one half of what is true . If I can prevail on any one to ...
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... hundred and fifty , and he has not sixpence in it . Thou art a stranger in Israel , my good friend ; and seemest to know no more of this lord , than thou didst D 2 didst of the conde de Peterborow , when first I DR . SWIFT . 35.
... hundred and fifty , and he has not sixpence in it . Thou art a stranger in Israel , my good friend ; and seemest to know no more of this lord , than thou didst D 2 didst of the conde de Peterborow , when first I DR . SWIFT . 35.
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... not read it . But raillery apart , I think it inconvenient , for a hundred reasons , that I should make your house a sort a sort of constant dwellingplace . I will certainly come DR . SWIFT . 41 From the same To miss Vanhomrigh.
... not read it . But raillery apart , I think it inconvenient , for a hundred reasons , that I should make your house a sort a sort of constant dwellingplace . I will certainly come DR . SWIFT . 41 From the same To miss Vanhomrigh.
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acquaintance Adieu affairs Amesbury answer Arbuthnot Beggar's Opera believe bishop Carteret compliments countess of Suffolk court dean deanery DEAR SIR desire Dublin duchess duke earl endeavour England esteem excellency expect favour fear fortune friends friendship give glad grace Gulliver's Travels hear heard honour hope humble servant humble service humour Ireland John Gay king kingdom lady late least letter live London lord Bathurst LORD BOLINGBROKE lord Burlington LORD CARTERET lord lieutenant lordship MADAM months never obedient obliged Oxford person pleasure Pope pounds Pray present proxy publick Pulteney queen QUILCA reason received remember sent Sheridan sincere sir Robert sir Robert Walpole soon sorry spleen Swift tell thank thing thought tion told town Twickenham Walpole week wish Worrall writ write
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Seite 120 - I do humbly entreat your Excellency either to use such persuasions as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom, for learning and virtue, quiet at home, or assist him, by your credit, to compass his romantic design; which, however, is very noble and generous, and directly proper for a great person of your excellent education to encourage.
Seite 237 - ENTIRELY approve your refusal of that employment, and your writing to the queen. I am perfectly confident you have a keen enemy in the ministry. God forgive him, but not till he puts himself in a state to be forgiven.
Seite 437 - Meredyth's father last night in my Cathedral ; he was ninety-six years old ; so that Mrs. Pope may live seven years longer.
Seite 182 - I may add to this pleasure, and give you further proofs of my beneficent temper, I will likewise inform you, that I shall be in your neighbourhood again by the end of next week ; by which time I hope that Jonathan's imagination of business, will be succeeded by some imagination more becoming a professor of that divine science, la bagatelle. Adieu, Jonathan, Alexander, John ! Mirth be with you.
Seite 456 - Remember we are to be good neighbors as well as neighbors ; and if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Seite 88 - What can be the design of your letter but malice, to wake me out of a scurvy sleep, which however is better than none ? I am towards nine years older since I left you, yet that is the least of my alterations ; my business, my diversions, my conversations, are all entirely changed for the worse, and so are my studies and my amusements in writing. Yet, after all, this humdrum way of life might be 217 passable enough, if you would let me alone.
Seite 93 - I sing, but an eunuch, or an Italian woman. Everybody is grown now as great a judge of music, as they were in your time of poetry; and folks, that could not distinguish one tune from another, now daily dispute about the different styles of Handel, Bononcini, and Attilio.
Seite 361 - LII. situation is an odd one ; the Duchess is your treasurer, and Mr. Pope tells me you are the Duke's. And I had gone a good way in some verses on that occasion, prescribing lessons to direct your conduct, in a negative way, not to do so and so, etc.
Seite 205 - ... us, and two or three of your best friends, in not giving us the least hint of it while you were with us ; and in particular Dr. Arbuthnot, who says it is ten thousand pities he had not known it, he could have added such abundance of things upon every subject.
Seite 204 - It is generally said that you are the author ; but I am told, the bookseller declares he knows not from what hand it came. From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery.