The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ...John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
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... talk . What thou feeft in me , is a * body exhausted by the labours of the mind . I " have found in Dame Nature not indeed an un- “ kind , but a very coy mistress . Watchful nights , anxious days , flender , meals , and endless la ...
... talk . What thou feeft in me , is a * body exhausted by the labours of the mind . I " have found in Dame Nature not indeed an un- “ kind , but a very coy mistress . Watchful nights , anxious days , flender , meals , and endless la ...
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... talk in verfe to him- felf , fhut himself up from his friends , and be ac- ceffible to none but flatterers , poets , and pick - poc- kets ; till his relations and old acquaintance judged . him to be fo far gone , as to be a fit patient ...
... talk in verfe to him- felf , fhut himself up from his friends , and be ac- ceffible to none but flatterers , poets , and pick - poc- kets ; till his relations and old acquaintance judged . him to be fo far gone , as to be a fit patient ...
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... talk of ? himself , quoth the aunt . Whofe wit and breeding does he most commend ? His own , quoth the aunt . - Whom does he write , letters to ? Himself -— Whom does he dream of All the dreams I ever heard were of himself- Whom is he ...
... talk of ? himself , quoth the aunt . Whofe wit and breeding does he most commend ? His own , quoth the aunt . - Whom does he write , letters to ? Himself -— Whom does he dream of All the dreams I ever heard were of himself- Whom is he ...
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... talk big * . Or if you would defcribe a rich man refunding his treasures , express it thus , Though he , as faid , may riches gorge , the Spoi Painful in maffy vomit fball recoil . Soon fball he perifb with a fwift decay , Like his own ...
... talk big * . Or if you would defcribe a rich man refunding his treasures , express it thus , Though he , as faid , may riches gorge , the Spoi Painful in maffy vomit fball recoil . Soon fball he perifb with a fwift decay , Like his own ...
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... talks of a fnow of bloffoms , and thereby raifes an unexpected picture of winter , Of this fort is the following : The gaping clouds pour lakes of fulphur down , Whofe livid flafbes fick'ning fun - beams drown † . What a noble confufion ...
... talks of a fnow of bloffoms , and thereby raifes an unexpected picture of winter , Of this fort is the following : The gaping clouds pour lakes of fulphur down , Whofe livid flafbes fick'ning fun - beams drown † . What a noble confufion ...
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Страница 122 - If such a description be necessary, because it is certain there is one in Virgil, Old Troy is ready burnt to your hands. But if you fear that would be thought borrowed, a chapter or two of the Theory of the Conflagration, well circumstanced, and done into verse, will be a good succedaneum.
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Страница 246 - John, yet there wanted not those who endeavoured to create a misunderstanding between them, and they had so far prevailed with him once that he turned her out of doors, to his great sorrow, as he found afterwards, for his affairs went on at sixes and sevens.
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Страница 118 - The virtues of great men, like thofe of plants, are inherent in them whether they are exerted or not ; and the more ftrongly inherent, the lefs they are exerted ; as a man is the more rich, the lefs he fpends.
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