Jonathan Swift: A Biographical and Critical StudyChatto & Windus, 1902 - 280 страници |
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Страница 250 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Страница 250 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Страница 182 - Am I a free-man in England, and do I become a slave in six hours by crossing the channel?
Страница 250 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Страница 148 - ... the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with.
Страница 222 - It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Страница 126 - Tis true — then why should I repine To see my life so fast decline ? But why obscurely here alone, Where I am neither loved nor known? My state of health none care to learn ; My life is here no soul's concern : And those with whom I now converse Without a tear will tend my hearse.
Страница 144 - I believe you thought I only rallied when I told you the other night that I would pester you with letters. Once more I advise you, if you have any regard for your quiet, to alter your behaviour quickly; for I do assure you I have too much spirit to sit down contented with this treatment.
Страница 138 - If you continue to treat me as you do, you will not be made uneasy by me long. It is impossible to describe what I have suffered since I saw you last. I am sure I could have borne the rack much better than those killing, killing words of yours.
Страница 176 - What I intend now to say to you, is, next to your duty to God, and the care of your salvation, of the greatest concern to yourselves and your children : your bread and clothing, and every common necessary of life, entirely depend upon it.