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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... town wou'd fwear he had betray'd By magick spells the harmless maid : And ev'ry beau wou'd have his jokes , That scholars were like other folks ; That , when platonick flights were over , The tutor turn'd a mortal lover . So So tender ...
... town wou'd fwear he had betray'd By magick spells the harmless maid : And ev'ry beau wou'd have his jokes , That scholars were like other folks ; That , when platonick flights were over , The tutor turn'd a mortal lover . So So tender ...
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... town To mend his barn cut Baucis down ; At which ' tis hard to be believ'd How much the other tree was griev'd , Grew fcrubby , dy'd a - top , was ftunted ; So the next parfon ftubb'd and burnt it . A A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER ...
... town To mend his barn cut Baucis down ; At which ' tis hard to be believ'd How much the other tree was griev'd , Grew fcrubby , dy'd a - top , was ftunted ; So the next parfon ftubb'd and burnt it . A A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER ...
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... town . To fhops in crowds the daggled females fly , Pretend to cheapen goods , but nothing buy . The templar spruce , while ev'ry fpout's a- broach , Stays till ' tis fair , yet feems to call a coach . The tuck'd - up femftrefs walks ...
... town . To fhops in crowds the daggled females fly , Pretend to cheapen goods , but nothing buy . The templar spruce , while ev'ry fpout's a- broach , Stays till ' tis fair , yet feems to call a coach . The tuck'd - up femftrefs walks ...
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... town In that old wig and rufty gown ? I doubt your heart is fet on pelf So much , that you neglect yourself . What ! I fuppofe now ftocks are high , You've fome good purchase in your eye ; Or is your money out at use ? ---- Truce , good ...
... town In that old wig and rufty gown ? I doubt your heart is fet on pelf So much , that you neglect yourself . What ! I fuppofe now ftocks are high , You've fome good purchase in your eye ; Or is your money out at use ? ---- Truce , good ...
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... town , ' Tis for the fervice of the crown . " Lewis , the dean will be of use ; 15 " Send for him up , take no excuse . ” The toil , the danger of the seas , Great minifters ne'er think of these ; Or , let it coft five hundred pound ...
... town , ' Tis for the fervice of the crown . " Lewis , the dean will be of use ; 15 " Send for him up , take no excuse . ” The toil , the danger of the seas , Great minifters ne'er think of these ; Or , let it coft five hundred pound ...
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Страница 146 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
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.
Страница 43 - A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again.
Страница 196 - To raise the lumber from the earth. But view him in another scene, When all his drink is Hippocrene, His money...
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.