The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 |
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... virtue , wit , and parts ; Nor are the men of fenfe to blame , For breafts incapable of flame : The fault muft on the nymphs be plac❜d } Grown so corrupted in their taste . The pleader , having spoke his best , Had witness ready to ...
... virtue , wit , and parts ; Nor are the men of fenfe to blame , For breafts incapable of flame : The fault muft on the nymphs be plac❜d } Grown so corrupted in their taste . The pleader , having spoke his best , Had witness ready to ...
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... virtue dwells , From courts inclufive down to cells ; What preachers talk , or fages write : These I will gather and unite , And represent them to mankind Collected in that infant's mind . This faid , the plucks in heav'n's high bow'rs ...
... virtue dwells , From courts inclufive down to cells ; What preachers talk , or fages write : These I will gather and unite , And represent them to mankind Collected in that infant's mind . This faid , the plucks in heav'n's high bow'rs ...
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... virtue in a maid , A virtue but at second - hand ; They blush , because they understand . The Graces next would act their part , And fhew'd but little of their art ; Their work was half already done , The child with native beauty fhone ...
... virtue in a maid , A virtue but at second - hand ; They blush , because they understand . The Graces next would act their part , And fhew'd but little of their art ; Their work was half already done , The child with native beauty fhone ...
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... ; She knew in our degen❜rate days Bare virtue could not live on praise ; That meat must be with money bought : She therefore , upon fecond thought , Infus'd , Infus'd , yet as it were by stealth , Some 10 CADENUS and VANESSA .
... ; She knew in our degen❜rate days Bare virtue could not live on praise ; That meat must be with money bought : She therefore , upon fecond thought , Infus'd , Infus'd , yet as it were by stealth , Some 10 CADENUS and VANESSA .
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... virtue , in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood To perifh for our country's good . She nam'd the ancient heroes round , Explain'd for what they were renown'd ; Then spoke with cenfure , or applause , Of foreign customs ...
... virtue , in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood To perifh for our country's good . She nam'd the ancient heroes round , Explain'd for what they were renown'd ; Then spoke with cenfure , or applause , Of foreign customs ...
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Страница 72 - Then the Bell rung, and I went down to put my Lady to Bed, And, God knows, I thought my Money was as safe as my Maidenhead. So when I came up again, I found my Pocket feel very light, But when I search'd, and miss'd my Purse, Lord! I thought I should have sunk outright: Lord! Madam, says Mary, how d'ye do? Indeed...
Страница 148 - See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot, Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Страница 39 - Having through all the village past, To a small cottage came at last, Where dwelt a good old honest ye'man, Call'd in the neighbourhood Philemon ; Who kindly did these saints invite In his poor hut to pass the night ; And then the hospitable...
Страница 265 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Страница 303 - tis a shocking sight, And he's engaged to-morrow night; My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He loved the Dean— (I lead a heart,) But dearest friends, they say, must part. His time was come: he ran his race; We hope he's in a better place.
Страница 43 - what's this you tell us ? I hope you don't believe me jealous ? But yet, methinks, I feel it true ; And really yours is budding too : — Nay — now I cannot stir my foot ; It feels as if 'twere taking root.
Страница 56 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Страница 304 - To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme : His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste. I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.
Страница 125 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...