The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ...John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
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... write a fatire in conjunction , on the abuses of human learning ; and to make it the better received , they propofed to do it in the manner of Cer- vantes ( the original author of this fpecies of fatire ) , under the hiftory of fome ...
... write a fatire in conjunction , on the abuses of human learning ; and to make it the better received , they propofed to do it in the manner of Cer- vantes ( the original author of this fpecies of fatire ) , under the hiftory of fome ...
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... the many xcellent things which may be learned from antiquity , we find a modern writer only picking out their abfurdities . Pope and Warburton .. obferved obferved to leap exceedingly , which was on the first Chap . I. MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS .
... the many xcellent things which may be learned from antiquity , we find a modern writer only picking out their abfurdities . Pope and Warburton .. obferved obferved to leap exceedingly , which was on the first Chap . I. MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS .
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... writing . I returned home , and having maturely confidered their feveral arguments , which I found to be of equal weight , I quieted my curifioty with this natural conclufion , that he was born in fome point common to all the feven ...
... writing . I returned home , and having maturely confidered their feveral arguments , which I found to be of equal weight , I quieted my curifioty with this natural conclufion , that he was born in fome point common to all the feven ...
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... writer . Likewife a crab tree * , that had been hitherto barren , ap- peared on a fudden laden with a vast quantity of crabs . This fign alfo the old gentleman imagined to be a prognoftic of the acutenefs of his wit . great fwarm of ...
... writer . Likewife a crab tree * , that had been hitherto barren , ap- peared on a fudden laden with a vast quantity of crabs . This fign alfo the old gentleman imagined to be a prognoftic of the acutenefs of his wit . great fwarm of ...
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... write , having turned away the writing - mafter , because he knew nothing of Fabi- us's waxen tables . Cornelius having read and feriously weighed the methods by which the famous Montaigne was edu- cated , and refolving , in fome degree ...
... write , having turned away the writing - mafter , because he knew nothing of Fabi- us's waxen tables . Cornelius having read and feriously weighed the methods by which the famous Montaigne was edu- cated , and refolving , in fome degree ...
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Страница 120 - Then take a hero whom you may choose for the sound of his name, and put him into the midst of these adventures. There let him work for twelve books; at the end of which you may take him out ready prepared to conquer, or to marry; it being necessary that the conclusion of an epic poem be fortunate.
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.
Страница 115 - ... reeds, when joined in one bundle, become infrangible. To which end our art ought to be put upon the fame foot with other arts of this age.
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 164 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
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.
Страница 121 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
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