 | Jonathan Swift - 1755 - 514 pages
...moft, when there are the feweft bones. Thus much, I think, is fufficient to ferve by way of addrefs to my patrons, the true modern critics, and may very well atone for my paft filence, as well as that which I am like to obferve for the future. I hope I have deferred fo... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 468 pages
...tojnarlmo& when there are the feweft bones. Thus much, I think, is fufficient to ferve by way of addrefs to my patrons, the true modern critics ; and may very well atone for my paft filence, as well as that which lam like to obferve for the future. 1 hope I have deferved fo well... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 500 pages
...when there are the feweft bones* P 4 Thui Thus much, I think, is fufficient to ferve by way of addrefs to my patrons, the true modern critics, and may very well atone for my paft filence, as well as that \yhich I am like to obferve for the future. J hope J have deferved fo... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 376 pages
...moft when there are the few eft bones. Thus much, I think, is fafficient to ferve by way of addrefs to my patrons, the true modern critics; and may very well atone for my paft filence, as well .as that which I am like to obferve for the future. I hope I have deferved fo... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 474 pages
...moft, when there are the feweft bones. Thus much, I think, is fufficient to ferve by way of addrefs to my patrons, the true modern critics ; and may very well atone for my paft filence, as well as that which I am * like to obferve for the future. I hope I have deferved fo... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1798 - 278 pages
...moft when there ;ue the feweft bones. Thus much, I think, is fufficient to ferve by way of addrels to my patrons, the true modern critics ; and may very well atone for my paft filence, as well as that which I am like to obferve for the future. I hope I have delerved fo... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...company ; and they that make their court best, are such as bespatter him most. Lastly, a true critick, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose...bones. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve byway of address to my patrons, the true modern criticks; and may very well atone for my past silence,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...company ; and they that make their court best, are such as bespatter him most. Lastly, a true critick, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose...and consequently is apt to snarl most, when there arc the fewest bones. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve by way of address to my patrons, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 414 pages
...noblest writers by instinct, as a rat to the best cheese, or a wasp to the fairest fruit, ibid. In the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently snarls most when {here are fewest bones, ibid.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...; and they that make their court best, are such as besj/atter him most. Lastly, a (rue Critick, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose...bones*. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve bv way of address to my patrons, the true modern Criticks ; and may very well atone for my past silence,... | |
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Lastly, a true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. 
