The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Pathurst, 1754 |
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Page ix
... produce one inftance ; it is in the 61ft page . Dryden , L ' Eftrange , and fome others I fhall not name , are here levelled at , who having spent their lives in faction , and apoftacies , and all manner of vice , pretended to be ...
... produce one inftance ; it is in the 61ft page . Dryden , L ' Eftrange , and fome others I fhall not name , are here levelled at , who having spent their lives in faction , and apoftacies , and all manner of vice , pretended to be ...
Page xvii
... produces three inftances to prove this author's wit is not his own in many places . The firft is , that the names of Peter , Martin , and Jack are borrowed from a letter of the late Duke of Buckingham . Whatever wit Villers . VOL . I. a ...
... produces three inftances to prove this author's wit is not his own in many places . The firft is , that the names of Peter , Martin , and Jack are borrowed from a letter of the late Duke of Buckingham . Whatever wit Villers . VOL . I. a ...
Page xx
... produce any book they please , he defies them to fhew one fingle particular , where the judicious rea- der will affirm he has been obliged for the smallest hint ; giving only allowance for the accidental encountering of a single thought ...
... produce any book they please , he defies them to fhew one fingle particular , where the judicious rea- der will affirm he has been obliged for the smallest hint ; giving only allowance for the accidental encountering of a single thought ...
Page 6
... produced , could not be related in a feries , without frequent references and quotations , it was thought more eligible to put them together ; in the text innumera- ble paffages have been restored , which were evidently corrupt in every ...
... produced , could not be related in a feries , without frequent references and quotations , it was thought more eligible to put them together ; in the text innumera- ble paffages have been restored , which were evidently corrupt in every ...
Page 13
... produced the utmost harmony between them ; Swift as a teftimony of his friendship and esteem wrote the battle of the books , of which fir William is the hero ; and fir Wil- liam when he died left him a pecuniary legacy , and his ...
... produced the utmost harmony between them ; Swift as a teftimony of his friendship and esteem wrote the battle of the books , of which fir William is the hero ; and fir Wil- liam when he died left him a pecuniary legacy , and his ...
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