Swiftiana ...Charles Henry Wilson R. Phillips, 1804 |
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... trifles , which would have disgraced a magazine , as magazines were then conducted ; and became morose , cyni- cal , and capricious , in his domestic habits . In 1736 he lost his memory , and the facul- ties of his imagination and ...
... trifles , which would have disgraced a magazine , as magazines were then conducted ; and became morose , cyni- cal , and capricious , in his domestic habits . In 1736 he lost his memory , and the facul- ties of his imagination and ...
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... trifles prove . The sage who said he would be proud Of windows in his breast , Because he ne'er one thought allow'd That might not be confest ; His window scrawl'd by ev'ry rake , His breast again would cover ; And fairly bid the Devil ...
... trifles prove . The sage who said he would be proud Of windows in his breast , Because he ne'er one thought allow'd That might not be confest ; His window scrawl'd by ev'ry rake , His breast again would cover ; And fairly bid the Devil ...
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... trifles , which in things of great importance would have been matter for historians . " CXI . A GREAT LIBRARY . " A great library always makes me me- lancholy , where the best author is as much squeezed , and as obscure , as a porter at ...
... trifles , which in things of great importance would have been matter for historians . " CXI . A GREAT LIBRARY . " A great library always makes me me- lancholy , where the best author is as much squeezed , and as obscure , as a porter at ...
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... trifles the greatest men amuse themselves . Swift says , in his Jour- nal to Stella , " When my Lord Oxford and I came last Monday from Windsor , we amused ourselves with reading all the signs on the road . He is a pure trifler . * I ...
... trifles the greatest men amuse themselves . Swift says , in his Jour- nal to Stella , " When my Lord Oxford and I came last Monday from Windsor , we amused ourselves with reading all the signs on the road . He is a pure trifler . * I ...
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... trifles thus , and quite As hard , as senseless , and as light ; Expos'd to every coxcomb's eyes , But hid with caution from the wise . Here you may read - dear charming saint , Beneath a true receipt for paint : Here , in beau spelling ...
... trifles thus , and quite As hard , as senseless , and as light ; Expos'd to every coxcomb's eyes , But hid with caution from the wise . Here you may read - dear charming saint , Beneath a true receipt for paint : Here , in beau spelling ...
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afterwards Arbuthnot Archbishop attend BARRIER TREATY Bishop character church conversation court damn'd Dean Swift deanery death diocese of Meath Doctor Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England excellent fame France friends genius give Guiscard Gulliver Harley hate hath head Helsham Higgins History honour humour Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT King lady Laracor learned letter lines live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Hervey Lord Oxford Lord Treasurer Lordship mind minister ministry Moor Park nature Navan never observation occasion opinion parish Parnell peace person poet poetry Pope pounds pretend Prince promised Queen racters residence ridicule Roger Rome SATIRE Scriblerus club secretary sent Sheridan shew Sir William Temple speak Stella STEPHEN DUCK Swift says tell thing thou thought tion told took town treaty trifles verses words writ writing written wrote
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Trang 25 - Tis a cheese, which by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homelier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best.
Trang 88 - ... applies his words to all uses, except to the indication of his mind; that he never tells a truth but with an intent that you should take it for a lie; nor a lie but with a design that you should take it for a truth...
Trang 27 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs (all covered with powder), that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity.
Trang 26 - THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to...
Trang 122 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Trang 153 - The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed, that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men, inclines them to please others ; and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love.
Trang 123 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.
Trang 174 - They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning ; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and...
Trang 124 - ... quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money. His only fault is talking to his friends in way of complaint of too great a load of business, which looks a little like affectation : and he endeavours too much to mix the fine gentleman, and man of pleasure, with the man of business. What truth and sincerity he may have I know not : he is now but...
Trang 28 - ... to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before; sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away; his last days are spent in slavery to women, and generally the least deserving; till, worn out to the stumps, like his brother besom, he is either kicked out of doors, or made use of to kindle flames for others to warm themselves by.