The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page xix
... thofe flights were , I believe , all forts of people which he met in towns and villages where he chanced to refresh himself ; some chat for an hour , and again to the fields . His imagination was al- ways alive , and perhaps beyond all ...
... thofe flights were , I believe , all forts of people which he met in towns and villages where he chanced to refresh himself ; some chat for an hour , and again to the fields . His imagination was al- ways alive , and perhaps beyond all ...
Page xxv
... thofe talents , which he is allowed to have poffeffed in the most eminent degree , he beat all his contem- ' poraries many thousands of leagues in the race of Christianity . D. S. p . 115. 116 . Swift always ufed the feweft words that ...
... thofe talents , which he is allowed to have poffeffed in the most eminent degree , he beat all his contem- ' poraries many thousands of leagues in the race of Christianity . D. S. p . 115. 116 . Swift always ufed the feweft words that ...
Page xxix
... thofe great men who fat at the helm of affairs during the laft years of Q. Anne's reign , he searce ever loft himself , or grew giddy by the plenitude of power , and the exalted station of frequently appearing in the confidence and ...
... thofe great men who fat at the helm of affairs during the laft years of Q. Anne's reign , he searce ever loft himself , or grew giddy by the plenitude of power , and the exalted station of frequently appearing in the confidence and ...
Page xlii
... Thofe " who spoke drew all their arguments from my book , and their " votes confirm all I writ . The court had a majority of 150 .. All agree that it was my book that fpirited them to thefe refo- lutions . " [ Feb. 4. ] And presently ...
... Thofe " who spoke drew all their arguments from my book , and their " votes confirm all I writ . The court had a majority of 150 .. All agree that it was my book that fpirited them to thefe refo- lutions . " [ Feb. 4. ] And presently ...
Page xliii
... thofe tempeftuous times . As foon as Swift found his pains fruitless , his arguments unavailing , and his endeavours , like the stone of Syfiphus , rolling back upon himself , he retired to a friend's House in Berkshire , where he ...
... thofe tempeftuous times . As foon as Swift found his pains fruitless , his arguments unavailing , and his endeavours , like the stone of Syfiphus , rolling back upon himself , he retired to a friend's House in Berkshire , where he ...
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