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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This disappointment was presently followed by another ; for when the deanry of Derry became vacant , and it was the Earl of Berkeley's turn to dispose of it , Swift , instead of receiving it as an atonement for his late usage , was put ...
This disappointment was presently followed by another ; for when the deanry of Derry became vacant , and it was the Earl of Berkeley's turn to dispose of it , Swift , instead of receiving it as an atonement for his late usage , was put ...
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... but as her health was then declining , she said it was too late , and insisted , that they should continue to live as they had lived before . To this the Dean in his turn con , fented , and suffered her to dispose entirely of ...
... but as her health was then declining , she said it was too late , and insisted , that they should continue to live as they had lived before . To this the Dean in his turn con , fented , and suffered her to dispose entirely of ...
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But his converfation abounded with turns of wit of a higher kind . The Dean also greatly excelled in telling a story , his sentences wereshort and perspicuous ,. his observations , pier :: cing ; and though in the latter part of his ...
But his converfation abounded with turns of wit of a higher kind . The Dean also greatly excelled in telling a story , his sentences wereshort and perspicuous ,. his observations , pier :: cing ; and though in the latter part of his ...
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And turning to Mrs. Pilkington , he said very gravely , 16. That he hoped , as the cook was a woman of genius ; 26 he should , by this manner of arguing , be able , in about a year's time , to convince her that she had ** better fend up ...
And turning to Mrs. Pilkington , he said very gravely , 16. That he hoped , as the cook was a woman of genius ; 26 he should , by this manner of arguing , be able , in about a year's time , to convince her that she had ** better fend up ...
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other reasons obvious enough for his miscarriage in this : he writ against the conviction of his talent , and entered upon ond of the wrongest attempts in nature , to turn into ridicule , by a week's labour , a ' work , which had cost ...
other reasons obvious enough for his miscarriage in this : he writ against the conviction of his talent , and entered upon ond of the wrongest attempts in nature , to turn into ridicule , by a week's labour , a ' work , which had cost ...
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| Title | The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Volume 1 of The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2018 |
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