The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Том 6C. Bathurst, 1754 |
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... seen Pleading before the Cyprian queen . The council for the fair began , Accufing the falfe creature man . The brief with weighty crimes was charg'd , On which the pleader much enlarg'd ; That Cupid now has loft his art , Or blunts the ...
... seen Pleading before the Cyprian queen . The council for the fair began , Accufing the falfe creature man . The brief with weighty crimes was charg'd , On which the pleader much enlarg'd ; That Cupid now has loft his art , Or blunts the ...
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... seen to frown ; The Graces half - afham'd look down ; And ' twas obferv'd , there were but few Of either sex among the crew , Whom he or her affeffors knew . The Goddess foon began to fee , Things were not 6 CADENUS and VANESSA .
... seen to frown ; The Graces half - afham'd look down ; And ' twas obferv'd , there were but few Of either sex among the crew , Whom he or her affeffors knew . The Goddess foon began to fee , Things were not 6 CADENUS and VANESSA .
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... seen Good pinners edg'd with colberteen ; Her petticoat , transform'd a - pace , Became black fattin flounc'd with lace . Plain goody would no longer down ; ' Twas madam , in her grogram gown . Philemon was in great furprize , And ...
... seen Good pinners edg'd with colberteen ; Her petticoat , transform'd a - pace , Became black fattin flounc'd with lace . Plain goody would no longer down ; ' Twas madam , in her grogram gown . Philemon was in great furprize , And ...
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... seen a fnake in human form , * The famous marefchal Tu- renne , general of the French forces , faid to have been the greatest commander of the age . + Van Trump , admiral of the States General in their laft war with England eminent for ...
... seen a fnake in human form , * The famous marefchal Tu- renne , general of the French forces , faid to have been the greatest commander of the age . + Van Trump , admiral of the States General in their laft war with England eminent for ...
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... seen , There's none fo fine as Nelly , For charming face , and fhape , and mien , And what's not fit to tell ye : Oh ! the turn'd neck and fmooth white skin Of lovely dearest Nelly ! For many a fwain it well had been , Had the ne'er ...
... seen , There's none fo fine as Nelly , For charming face , and fhape , and mien , And what's not fit to tell ye : Oh ! the turn'd neck and fmooth white skin Of lovely dearest Nelly ! For many a fwain it well had been , Had the ne'er ...
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Страница 263 - 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 30 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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Страница 300 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Страница 45 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
Страница 301 - 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 146 - 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 299 - He'll treat me as he does my betters, Publish my will, my life, my letters ; Revive the libels born to die : Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament.