The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinC. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
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Page lviii
... observed , that his gown was generally very rufty , and his person no way extraordinary . After dinner , faid the Dean , " Lady Burlington , I hear you can fing ; fing me a fong . " The H The lady looked on this unceremonious manner of ...
... observed , that his gown was generally very rufty , and his person no way extraordinary . After dinner , faid the Dean , " Lady Burlington , I hear you can fing ; fing me a fong . " The H The lady looked on this unceremonious manner of ...
Page 101
... observe , that all learning was efteemed among them to be compound . ed from the fame principle : Becaufe , firft , it is gene- - rally affirmed , or confeffed , that learning puffeth men up ; and , fecondly , they proved it by the ...
... observe , that all learning was efteemed among them to be compound . ed from the fame principle : Becaufe , firft , it is gene- - rally affirmed , or confeffed , that learning puffeth men up ; and , fecondly , they proved it by the ...
Page 119
... , no apology can be thought neceffary for making the title correfpond with the contents . Hawkef This is literally true , as we may observe in the prefaces to moft plays , poems , & c . from from his urgent affairs ; as it is a hundred.
... , no apology can be thought neceffary for making the title correfpond with the contents . Hawkef This is literally true , as we may observe in the prefaces to moft plays , poems , & c . from from his urgent affairs ; as it is a hundred.
Page 193
... observe , how much the genius of a nation is liable to alter in half an age . I have heard it affirmed for certain , by fome very old people , that the contrary opinion was , even in their memories , as much in vogue as the other is now ...
... observe , how much the genius of a nation is liable to alter in half an age . I have heard it affirmed for certain , by fome very old people , that the contrary opinion was , even in their memories , as much in vogue as the other is now ...
Page 200
... observe how difficult it is to get rid of a phrafe , which the world is once grown fond of , though the occafion that firft produced it be entirely taken away .. For feveral years paft , if a man had but an ill - favoured nofe , the ...
... observe how difficult it is to get rid of a phrafe , which the world is once grown fond of , though the occafion that firft produced it be entirely taken away .. For feveral years paft , if a man had but an ill - favoured nofe , the ...
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