The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... offering to make him a cap- tain of horse . When Temple removed to Moor - park , he took Swift with him ; and when he was confulted by the Earl of Portland about about the expedience of complying with a bill then depending SWIFT .
... offering to make him a cap- tain of horse . When Temple removed to Moor - park , he took Swift with him ; and when he was confulted by the Earl of Portland about about the expedience of complying with a bill then depending SWIFT .
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... took his Mafter's degree ( July 5 , 1692 ) with fuch reception and regard as fully contented him . While he lived with Temple , he ufed to pay his mother at Leicefter an yearly vifit . He travelled on foot , unless some violence of ...
... took his Mafter's degree ( July 5 , 1692 ) with fuch reception and regard as fully contented him . While he lived with Temple , he ufed to pay his mother at Leicefter an yearly vifit . He travelled on foot , unless some violence of ...
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... thoughts of death rushed upon him , at this time , with fuch inceffant impor- tunity , that they took poffeffion of his mind when he first waked for many years together . He He opened his houfe by a publick table two days SWIFT . 47.
... thoughts of death rushed upon him , at this time , with fuch inceffant impor- tunity , that they took poffeffion of his mind when he first waked for many years together . He He opened his houfe by a publick table two days SWIFT . 47.
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... took plea- fure in directing and inftructing ; till , from being proud of his praife , the grew fond of his perfon . Swift was then about forty - feven , at an age when vanity is ftrongly excited by the amorous at- tention of a young ...
... took plea- fure in directing and inftructing ; till , from being proud of his praife , the grew fond of his perfon . Swift was then about forty - feven , at an age when vanity is ftrongly excited by the amorous at- tention of a young ...
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... took care to make greater , by agents who gathered up the old half- pence ; and was about to turn his brass into gold , by pouring his treasures of his new mint upon Ireland , when Swift , finding his 56 SWIFT . obtained a patent ...
... took care to make greater , by agents who gathered up the old half- pence ; and was about to turn his brass into gold , by pouring his treasures of his new mint upon Ireland , when Swift , finding his 56 SWIFT . obtained a patent ...
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Æneid affiftance afterwards amufed becauſe Beggar's Opera Broome cenfure church confidered converfation deanery death defign defire Delany diction dili diſcovered Dunciad eafily eafy eaſy faid fame fatire fays fecond feems feized feldom fent fervant ferved feven fhew fhould fince firft folicitations fome fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftill ftory ftudies fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficiently fuppofed furely gave himſelf honour houfe houſe Iliad inftruction intereft Ireland ISAAC WATTS JONATHAN SWIFT kindneſs lady laft laſt lefs Letters Lord Orrery mafter Minifters moft muſt neceffary nefs never numbers obfcure obferved occafion Orrery paffed paffion Paftorals PARNELL perfuaded Philips Pimpern PITT pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet Pope Pope's praiſe prefented profe publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen raiſe reader reafon refolution Spence Spenfer ſtudy Swift Tatler Theocritus thofe thoſe thought tion told tranflation univerfal uſe verfes Vida animated vifit Watts Whigs whofe worfe write written
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Страница 15 - and jefts. Furthermore, it drove " out of England (for that feafon) the " Italian Opera, which had carried all " before it for ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece
Страница 14 - the thirtieth and fortieth time; at " Bath and Briflol fifty, &c. It made " its progrefs into Wales, Scotland, and " Ireland, where it was performed twen** ty-four days fucceffively. The ladies " carried about with them the favourite ** fongs of it in fans, and houfes were
Страница 61 - conjunction with Pope, who prefixed a querulous and apologetical Preface. This important year fent likewife into the world Gulliver's Travels, a production fo new and ftrange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with fuch avidity, that the price of the firft edition was raifed before
Страница 8 - But he is at leaft one of the few poets with whom youth and ignorance may be fafely pleafed; and happy will be that reader whofe mind is difpofed by his verfes, or his profe, to imitate him in all but his non-conformity, to copy his benevolence to man,
Страница 16 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than life requires or admits, to be
Страница 95 - Dean?"—Becaufe we would rather " fee you than any of them.—** Ay, " any one that did not know fo well as " I do, might believe you. But fince ** you are come, I muft get fome fupper " for you, I fuppofe." ; No, Doctor, •* we have fupped already.—" Supped ** already, that's impoffible! why, 'tis ** not eight o'clock
Страница 99 - indignity, or endured by clemency and condefcenfion. Of Swift's general habits of thinking if his Letters can be fuppofed to afford any evidence, he was not a man to be either loved or envied. He feems to have wafted life in difcontent,. by the rage of neglected pride,, and the languifhment of unfatisfied
Страница 6 - difcovered that a dialogue of imaginary fwains might be compofed with little difficulty; becaufe the converfation of fhepherds excludes profound or refined fentiment; and, for images and defcriptions, Satyrs and Fauns, and Naiads and Dryads, were always within call; and woods and meadows, and hills and rivers, fupplied variety, which having a natural power to
Страница 61 - fecond could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticifm was for a while loft in wonder; no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity. But when
Страница 81 - that wit, confederated with truth, had fuch force as authority was unable to refift. He faid truly of himfelf^ that Ireland was his debtor. It was from the time when he firft began to patronize the Irifh, that they may date their riches and profperity. He taught them firft to know their own