 | Jonathan Swift - 1755 - 514 pages
...replied upon him, that this epithet was underftood in a mythological and allegorical fenfe. However, he objected again, why their father should forbid them to wear a broom-flick on their coats, a caution that feemed unnatural and impertinent ; upon which he was taken... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...replied upon him, that this epithet was understood ire ] a mythological and allegorical sense. However, he ' objected again, why their father should forbid...of a mystery, which doubtless' was very useful and signiiicant, but ought not to be over-curiously pried into^ .or nicely reasoned upon. And in short,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1812 - 250 pages
...replied upon him, that this epithet was understood in a mythological and allegorical sense. However, he objected again, why their father should forbid...was very useful and significant, but ought not to be over-curiouaiy pried into, or nicely reasoned upon. And in short, their father's authority being now... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 pages
...replied upon him, that his epithet was understood in a mythological and allegorical sense. However, he objected again, why their father should forbid...impertinent ; upon which he was taken up short, as one who spoke irreverently of a mystery, which doubtless was very useful and significant, but ought not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 446 pages
...allegorical sense. However, he objected again, why their father should forbid them to wear a broom stick on their coats, a caution that seemed unnatural and...impertinent ; upon which he was taken up short, as one who spoke irreverently of a mystery, which doubtless was very useful and significant, but ought not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 448 pages
...allegorical sense. However, he objected again, why their father should forbid them to wear a broom stick on their coats, a caution that seemed unnatural and...impertinent ; upon which he was taken up short, as one who spoke irreverently of a mystery, which doubtless was very useful and significant, but ought not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...replied upon him, that his epithet was understood in a mythological and allegorical sense. However, he objected again, why their father should forbid them to wear a broom stick on their coats, a caution that seemed unnatural and impertinent ; upon which he was taken... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...in a mythological and allegorical sense. However, he objected again, why their father should forhid them to wear a broom-stick on their coats ; a caution...ought not to be over-curiously pried into, or nicely * Tbis is certainly the farther Introducing the pomps of bahit and ornament. t Tbe next subject of... | |
 | John Taylor - 1823 - 332 pages
...stick. But it was replied upon him, that this epithet was un" derstood in an allegorical sense. However, he objected again, " why their father should forbid them to wear a broom-stick " upon their coats ; a caution that seemed onoataral and imper" tinent ; upon which he was taken up... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 458 pages
...replied upon him, that his epithet was understood in a mythological and allegorical sense. However, he objected again, why their father should forbid...impertinent ; upon which he was taken up short, as one who spoke irreverently of a mystery, which doubtless was very useful and significant, but ought not... | |
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This another of the brothers disliked, because of that epithet 'silver,' which could not, he humbly conceived, in propriety of speech be reasonably applied to a broomstick; but it was replied upon him that this epithet was understood in a mythological... 
