The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. 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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... method which was taken by the Dean himself , or by Mr. Pope , when they published the Mifcellany , in which the tranfition From grave to gay , from lively to fevere , appears frequently to be the effect rather of I choice choice than ...
... method which was taken by the Dean himself , or by Mr. Pope , when they published the Mifcellany , in which the tranfition From grave to gay , from lively to fevere , appears frequently to be the effect rather of I choice choice than ...
Page 79
... method and fclieme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by thofe who have answered this book ...
... method and fclieme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by thofe who have answered this book ...
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... that I mean myself . And I was just going on , in the ufual method , to perufe a hundred or two of dedications , and tranfcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordfhip : but but I was diverted by a certain accident : for TO.
... that I mean myself . And I was just going on , in the ufual method , to perufe a hundred or two of dedications , and tranfcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordfhip : but but I was diverted by a certain accident : for TO.
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... methods of tyranny and destruction , which your governor is pleased to practise upon this occafion . His inveterate malice is fuch to the writings of our age , that of several thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before ...
... methods of tyranny and destruction , which your governor is pleased to practise upon this occafion . His inveterate malice is fuch to the writings of our age , that of several thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before ...
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... method , than by putting himself into the cir- cumstances and postures of life that the writer was in apon every important paffage , as it flowed from his pen : for this will introduce a parity and ftrict correspondence of ideas between ...
... method , than by putting himself into the cir- cumstances and postures of life that the writer was in apon every important paffage , as it flowed from his pen : for this will introduce a parity and ftrict correspondence of ideas between ...
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