The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: 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, 1766 |
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Page iv
... 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 choice than accident ...
... 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 choice than accident ...
Page 79
... method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe ; and he was forry to observe the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by those who have answered this book ...
... method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe ; and he was forry to observe the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by those who have answered this book ...
Page 1
... that I mean myself . And I was juft going on , in the ufual method , to perufe a hundred or two of dedications , and tranfcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordship ; but but I was diverted by a certain accident : for то.
... that I mean myself . And I was juft going on , in the ufual method , to perufe a hundred or two of dedications , and tranfcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordship ; but but I was diverted by a certain accident : for то.
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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 ...
Page 16
... method , than by putting himself into the cir- cumftances and postures of life that the writer was in upon 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- cumftances and postures of life that the writer was in upon 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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